Caravan King's Cross...

On a cold rainy day last November, Boy and I journeyed down to Kings Cross in the hopes of having amazing brunch at Caravan. Alas it was not to be as they had a half an hour wait and due to hunger we hightailed it down the road to Granger & Co. It wasn't actually a problem as we had their famous ricotta pancakes which are still the best pancakes I have eaten to date. In spite of the divine pancakes we still had the desire to have brunch at Caravan one day.

Last weekend was finally the day that we were to try brunch at Caravan. We arrived early to ensure no waiting time.. Too early in fact, it wasn't even open! On Saturday it opens at 10am but is you are early like us there are fountains to look at in the sunshine. Whilst we were eating children actually turned up in their thousands (maybe about a dozen) to play in said fountains.

It was a sunny day so as soon as it opened we grabbed a table outside. The service was really great despite how many people sat down at the same time as us. We were offered water without even asking and the waiter came to take our order promptly.

In desperate need of caffeine we scanned the drinks menu. Boy has a thing for Cold Brew right now so ordered one of those. I inquisitively asked the waiter what a Cascara was and was somehow conned into ordering one. The waiter literally did not explain a thing about it and so when my so called coffee turned up with a lime in it I was a little taken aback. It was not coffee. For future reference, Cascara is Coffee cherry tea. As in tea made from the cherry a coffee bean is taken from. So basically take a coffee back and take away everything good about it (the coffee taste and caffeine) and then mince it down and make this tea. It was cold so refreshing enough and not horrible tasting but it was not the caffeine buzz I was after.

For my brunch I had the Barbecue beans, fried eggs, mojo verde, toast and chorizo sausage. You could pick your toast so I went for sourdough. It was such a good dish and a good choice too as I would never make this at home.

Boy ordered the Baked eggs, tomato pepper ragout, greek yoghurt, merguez sausage and sourdough toast. I can confirm that this was delicious too.

We were so tempted by all the sweet dishes, coconut bread and pancakes mmm, as well as the pastries and muffins but held back as we were going to a food market later.

Just outside the restaurants there are grass steps by the river so we sat and sunbathed until we got too hot.

We are definitely going to return to Caravan and if that isn't a recommendation I don't know what is! There are more adventurous dishes on the menu that we want to give a go and so should you.