Birdy Num Nums, a parent-, child- and pram-friendly cafe on Nicholson St, North Carlton, has been my recent cafe of choice to meet people with my hummer of a pram and squirming child. It is a bit of a legend among Melbourne mums, so I thought I'd try it out in my last weeks in this city. Big disappointment.
The first two times I went I only had milkshakes or iced chocolate - not too hard to get right. Yesterday we went for lunch, and in a spectacular show of mediocrity, everything that eventually made it to our table was very poor! Crispy squid on a Vietnamese salad was soggy calamari on a small wilted heap of salad mix with some token grated carrot and crushed peanuts. An insulting $16.50. All coffees and the chai were appalling and the other three mains all looked very lame as well. The dry, wizened mushrooms with my friend's eggs made my heart sink. Not to mention the waiting staff, who all seemed to be on work experience. Not what I would've thought was the wisest choice for a weekend lunchtime.
I was so utterly disappointed, perhaps most so with myself for staying, eating and paying.
Birdy Num Nums? Bloody Yuk Yuk.
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Oh I thought I was gagging down those wizened mushrooms so convincingly!...obviously not. Lucky the company made up for the low-grade food-type products. x A
Zoe, weird internet moment here...
Hello, it's Janet (yoga), Gerard's partner. I was cruising around his facebook deciding whether or not I need another internet profile and then saw you and your beautiful babe (belated congratulations!) and then realised that I've been here before via Penni's site and never put two and three together...
Hello.
Holy moly!
Anna - sorry about the shrooms!
Janet! Shit! Wow! Am trying to track you thru Gerard's facebook as we speak...
Ha! That's totally bizarre that you two know each other in real life.
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