Milk and Honey, Northbridge

I love eggs but also being health conscious, I want to avoid fried eggs. So I have always ordered poached eggs on toast whenever I have brunch. Since it's such a simple dish, there is no hiding behind a sauce, or fancy flavouring. I thought it would more accurately reflect the quality of cooking and freshness of produce with this dish.

The mission, and I chose to accept it, is to find the best poached eggs in Perth. So this is the very first cafe in this operation.

Milk and honey at 82 James St.

Went to this place after seeing an exhibition at the Perth Museum. It's only 5 min walk away. The place looks nice - spacious and not crowded. But it was 38 degrees out there and the air con is NOT on?! So we were sitting there sweating away. Already I was not in the most forgiving mood.

The plate came as standard 2 poached eggs, a small rocket salad with dressing and 2 pieces of toast with a packet of butter. I have to say I prefer butter that is either in a glass container or whipped. A packet is just not that great a look.

But to the eggs...The egg white was pretty well cooked. Whilst other cafes there is often a vinegar taste to it, the egg white here was rather taste free. The eggs were on the small side. I like to dissect the egg white from the yolk as far as possible to get the purest taste of the yolk. May be it's the surgeon-wannabe in me. The yolk separated from the white fairly easily. But there was a reason for that. The yolk was rather over cooked. Although there was some yolk running into the toast, it was hardly bursting. In my opinion, the eggs were over poached.

So considering the bakery condition of the cafe, the rather average quality of the eggs, on the Olivia egg scale, it rates as "ordinary".