By NATALIA HAWK
It’s 9am on a Sunday, and you’re keen to go out for breakfast. A healthy breakfast.
But your local cafe – just like every other cafe on the block – just has your standard breakfast fare on the menu. Eight different variations of bacon/eggs/sausages/hash browns/baked beans, toast with a variety of jams, a bunch of different pastries. Banana bread. Maybe some muesli.
Certainly no superfoods, no wholegrains and no green smoothies in sight.
It seems really odd to me – especially living in Sydney, which is really the leading Australian capital of Healthy Clean-Eating Stand-Up-Paddleboarding people – that there aren’t more cafes and restaurants getting creative, branching out and offering more healthy options on their menus. Fresh, light fare that is tasty and wholesome and isn’t just a pile of bacon covered in hollandaise sauce.
I always have people asking me where to go for healthy meals because I think I have one of those faces that looks like you should ask me things. (Tourists stop me ALL THE TIME to take their photos and just two weeks ago I had to sing the Australian anthem with a random Danish gentleman as part of some kind of scavenger hunt but let’s not go into it.)
Frankly, I have no answers, because I’m not trendy.
However, I decided to crowd-source some opinions and asked our lovely Mamamia Facebook fans about their favourite places to go for a healthy breakfast in their cities.
Bookmark this for the next time that you need some guidelines about where to eat in your city. And come and leave comments and tips in the comments section below.
Adelaide
Top Comments
Monk Bodhi Dharma in St Kilda, Melbourne! Gluten free/dairy free/vegan/organic/raw options. Best apple pancakes with raw cinnamon icecream - a must try.
Do not go to about life.. The food looks great on the menu but it's terrible. Great in theory, baddd execution. Ruby's on bronte road is fantastic, as is earth to table - green smoothies galore! And the superfood muffin at Rubys is second to none.