fratelli fresh

my new favourite lunch / grocery spot!

fratelli fresh in waterloo
they wholesale to restaurant but also have a market open to public, upstairs is the always packed cafe sopra.

because it is is a warehouse, so the cafe have a very high ceiling, there's no menu, you have to try and read that very cramped and big black board menu. It's so jam packed with food that lots of people have to go up to it to read it.

we had osso buco bianco with little ear pasta and the very very delicious cod pate with bricohe, it's got a soft boiled egg on the top and you crack open the egg for the yolk to ooze out..hmmm.....

to end we had a deconstructed tiramisu and very good vittoria coffees!

the staff are so nice but beware you cannot book and it's always full!
we waited for 40 mins! but so worth the wait!
I think either go early (before 12pm) or towards closing time (2-ish)

I didn't mind the wait cos downstairs they have a very good market. you can buy restaurant quality produce at a cheap price ($2.95 for a punnet of strawberries).
next door they have a homeware shops which sells mostly italian homewares.

I must go back soon!

D.

ps. beware of parking rangers in the area!