Living in Melbourne there are always new places to try when it comes to any food orientated activity, sometimes I find that there are just too many so I just stick to what I know is good. Plus I’m one of those people that if I find somewhere I like I’ll continue to go there until I realise all the things I dislike about it, instead of trying somewhere new for the first time and being disappointed.

So I was reading a magazine the other day and it has this write up about a place called the Auction Rooms Cafe in North Melbourne (which hearing for the first time would have never associated food with), and this article could not praise the place enough so I decided to go try it out on Saturday morning.

When we got there at around 11am there was a line leading out of the door of people waiting for a seat. There was a real atmosphere to the place, buzzing with people and conversations. It is quite big as well, as the name suggests the space was actually the old WB Ellis Auction House which really adds to the whole set up. They also had this little outside courtyard area which looked quite nice, but being the freezing unpredictable days it has been, inside is always the way to go.

After 20 minutes we got a seat and ordered. The menu is really Brunch orientated, so coincidently we got there at a good time. The food is really clean and fresh, my mum got the tuna (right) with salad and hard boiled eggs which she enjoyed. And I got the croquettes (above) which were really nice and people actually stole from me when I was eating… (people I was with, not random people in the restaurant just to clarify). I also had a pear juice to drink which I ordered mostly because you hardly ever hear people offering pear juice at restaurants… I mean how would you even juice that?

To sum up I’d probably go back to the Auction Rooms for breakfast, having tried the more lunch-ey orientated items on this trip. Really liked the atmosphere and there is also good entertainment in watching people take photos of their food from all different angles. It took about 5 minutes for the people on the table next to us to get one they were happy with instagramming.