Trunk Diner
| Where | 275-285 Exhibition St, Melbourne, 3000—View map |
Contact | 03 9663 7994 info@trunktown.com.au |
Website | www.trunktown.com.au |
Open | Breakfast Monday to Friday 7:00am to 11.30am, Saturday to Sunday 8am to 11.30am |
Payment | EFTPOS, Visa, Mastercard, Diners, AMEX |
Diet | Soy, Gluten free |
Seating | Inside and outside |
Kids | Welcome |
Pets | Unwelcome |
Meet me under the coral tree for a sneaky one?
Ellie Parker 10 October 2010
Aha! Breakfast burgers and breakfast beers. Now we're getting somewhere people. It's been a long time coming but now we have an excuse on a Monday morning. Even better, it's just around the corner from your office.
Trunk Diner has taken the NYC diner concept and morphed it together with Melbourne-industrial-chic-meets-Tijuana-costal-cool. This mad decor mash up is appropriately situated in an equally uncanny pozy: right under the only heritage listed coral tree in Melbourne's business district. Splashes of colour, poly plastic walls, wooden shipping crates and polished concrete floors unite together and transform this leafy courtyard into a snug hub that somehow has charm coming out of its armpits.
As for the breakfast burger, it makes you revisit all those lost mornings you went without. A soft little Noissette brioche clamps hold of a crispy fried egg, melted cheddar cheese and sizzling bacon. Plop on some house made smoky BBQ sauce and you're in business. Other breakfast items include organic Tamar Valley yoghurt pots for the skinny and waffles with grilled bananas, hazelnuts, ice cream and maple syrup, for the fat. The house-made quesadillas and hot habanero accoutrements are also a nice nod to Speedy Gonzales cuisine.
Plenty of staff keep the corporates (mostly Team Telstra) watered and fed and the meals are generally shot out of the kitchen at record speed. Given the casual diner feel, Tunk will fit in with your plans, from a simple cup of coffee to a long lunch with the boys.
Don't forget about the breakfast beers. Kirin and James Boags are on tap and Trunk opens its doors at 7am - which means you could easily knock back a few sneaky ones before 9am. It might even make our telecommunications network run smoother. C'mon kids, you know you want to.
Pint of Boags, thanks.