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Three One 2 One

Address:
424 Bridge Road Richmond 3121
Website: www.threeone2one.com.au
Phone: 03 9429 4409
Cuisine Type: Cafe

 

MENU VARIETY:  Breakfast, lunch and brunch

MEAL SIZES: medium

PRICING: mid-range, $10-$30

OPENING HOURS: Everyday from 8am-4pm

 

He Says

 

You’ll be sure to remember Richmond’s postcode after eating at Three One 2 One. With a jungle like setting of green pillars and dark brown wood, the interior of the café is decorated with Rhinoceros ornaments and there is a giant Rhino painted on the building’s exterior sidewall, making it easy to spot if you’re coming down Bridge Road from Punt Road end. It certainly has character – cool, calm, cosy and casual; funkier than Richmond Hill Café and Larder and serving better food than Boheme, other neighbourhood cafes along Bridge Road. This café has gone about creating a friendly atmosphere for customers, with a comfy sofa in the back and an open kitchen bringing about a welcoming atmosphere. We sit on the hard wooden seats for some breakfast and coffees. 

The breakfast menu is fairly straightforward: traditional dishes with a twist of modern creativity. There are traditional Australian staple ingredients with a hint of Spanish influences. We ordered the Benedict Rosti and Slow Cooked Pork from the lunch menu because it’s approaching 12 already. Call me strange but I have a tendency to order lunch items when it’s around lunch time, even though it’s my first meal of the day, whereas my partner if the opposite, she must eat breakfast if we go out for breakfast. Well the food arrives and we go about our normal routine and take a million photos of the food from each angle. My senses of smell through the camera's viewfinder hone into the smokey eggplant, yet I don’t commence eating without ruining the presentation of the perfectly sliced pork. We both try the benedict first, delicious is my first thought, but it could be my heightened taste because I’m starving. The poached eggs are perfecto, cooked with a runny yolk while the hollandaise is thin and not overly buttery. Instead of thinly sliced ham, which most other cafes serve with their eggs benedict, it comes with smoked ham hock. It’s simply divine. Potato-rosti tastes like a gourmet hash brown and ten times better. Liz and I share the pork belly and concur this is quality food that the chef has plated up. Looking around at other diners’ facial expressions, indeed everyone is thoroughly enjoying their meals. The food architecture is precise and presentable. The pork with crunchy and salted crackling skin is served alongside thick melted swiss cheese-covered brioche, and a small side salad of pickled cabbage covered in sweet beetroot. The balance of flavours and texture go well together. I'm not sure how the cafe's rhino theme relates to the food, afterall, these mammals are vegetarians and rhino as a dish is certainly not served either. Nevermind, as long as the food satisfies our taste buds. And it does.

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