upon this rock, ascot vale, australia

 

upon this rock is a recently opened cafe in ascot vale in melbourne's inner west.  new management took over this cafe approximately 6 months ago.  unlike many of the hipstercafes and brunch places, this place has dark floorboards, white walls and the original architraves.  it's cosy, but the fit out lacks any real charm.

for breakfast, we tried two dishes.  first, the eggs flamingo ($11.50), which consisted of oven baked eggs (which were not oven baked, but as the photo shows, pan fried) on top of a potato, green pea, capsicum, tomato and chorizo "stew".  there were a lot of flavours going on there for me, mostly salt.  it also came with multigrain fingers/soldiers.

the second dish was the monte cristo sandwich ($14.50), a sort of deep fried club sandwich.  it had three layers with swiss cheese, ham, chicken fillets, all dipped in whipped eggs and panfried with grilled spiced tomatoes (read, one tomato cut in half and without much, if any, spice)

perhaps the consumer and credit code needs to go through the menu and see what's actually happening... 

back to the food, it was generally tasty and, for the price, good value.  when you can go to places like proud marys and get a good breakfast for more than $20, an eggs flamingo or monte cristo sandwich at upon this rock's prices makes you reconsider whether you can genuinely compare the restaurants.  its a good value cafe for a suburban strip with good friendly, family style service.