Café: Three Bags full
Date: 4th June
Time: 10am
Location: 60 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford, Melbourne
Drink ordered: Full breakfast and cappucino
Price: $3.50 for coffee, $18 for breakfast
Coffee rating: 3.5 cups (well crafted, tasty but not exceptional)
Service: Friendly in a ditzy way
Book: The Saturday morning paper
What’s on the menu: Full café menu
Why go: To say you went to a cool, trendy café and stood outside waiting for a table like a douche bag
Observations: Three Bags Full is one of those cafes that the “cool” people go to, very trendy and hip and in a converted old Victorian warehouse to boot. That being said it has some nice design features (lamps hanging at the coffee bar made out of up turned cups and sauces the highlight).
We arrived relatively early, but the place was already packed with the trend setters, who looked up from their Herald Suns and looked us up and down. Luckily we did not have to queue outside like the other late arrivals, where you have to wear this silly, disinterested, yet chilled expression on your face while you fiddle with your iphone and try to look uber cool.
We sat at a communal table and got a very haughty look from the occupants at one end. I gave a haughty ‘in your face’ look back and we settled into our old steel factory chairs. I choose the big breakfast at around $18. I thought it was a bit much, but everything on the menu is over $15 so it seemed the best value. The food was OK, nothing exceptional, a bit bland to be honest, though the company was great (good friends). Everyone enjoyed their meals. I wish I’d tried the eggs with mushy peas which looked good.
Paraphrasing Woody Allen, it was a good place to spend a few hours chatting and eating breakfast, but not a great one (and then someone super-cool punched me in the mouth!) – if you don’t get the joke, listen to Woody Allen’s stand-up CD. Pure genius
On the subject of genius, you could do better than spending your hard earned cash at this pretentious place, but you could also do a lot worse. Depends on how cool you wanna be!
