After driving along the Great Ocean Road for a few hours, we were ready for a late lunch in Port Campbell. Unfortunately, the place we originally wanted to try was randomly closed so we picked Grassroots Deli Cafe.
We dropped in on a Thursday afternoon (around 2:30pm). FYI: the kitchen closes at 3:00pm so take note if you want food. After that, it's solely tasting plates. Not sure why it's like that but c'est la vie.
There's plenty of seating inside and out on the patio. Cool that they have a wood oven pizza outside (looks like they inherited it from the previous owners) but no pizza is on the menu. There's several locally made items on the shelves including granola, quinoa, chocolate bars, Indian curry sauces, reusable coffee mugs and creams. Browse while you wait for your order.
The menu is split into breakfast/brunch, lunch and tasting plates. There's a cabinet of goodies up front that had toasties and desserts. Drink menu is typical cafe style; coffee, chai, tea, kombucha, juices, smoothies and alcoholic (wines and beer).
- Flat white ($4.00 AUD regular) - this was GDC's only saving grace.
- Falafel ($14.50 AUD) - came with two falafel balls (stingy), pita bread, haloumi, "salad", sliced tomatoes and hummus & sour cream. The pita bread was beyond dry while the salad was literally three whole pieces of romaine lettuce. Falafels were bland and lifeless. Only good thing was the haloumi cheese, which was lightly fried and tasty. Saddest falafel platter I've ate in my life.
- Fish wrap ($15.00 AUD) - battered flathead tail with cos lettuce, fresh tomato, red onion, carrot, cucumber and garlic mayo wrapped in flatbread. Came with steakcut chips. Decent but the fish really needed some seasoning and a sauce, any sauce. Should have went with one of their toasties ($10.00 AUD) instead.
Drop by for a drink but skip on the kitchen food. We were unimpressed. read more