Butcher 128 is a cool Yarraville cafe converted from an old butcher’s shop. It’s located at number 128 Roberts Street. Simple equation = Butcher 128.
The front room is all aqua and black subway tiles and naked bulb lights with a steel butcher’s rack hanging over the coffee counter.
The back dining area lets the butchery aesthetic go for some wooden built-ins, an awesome combination of wooden banquettes and alcoves.
I particularly like the high communal table with an inbuilt herb garden.
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As a former Fitzroy resident, I feel right at home in Butcher 128‘s uber-cool decor. Better still, so do my kids, as it is a very child-friendly cafe. For instance, there’s a little grassed area out the back (which was closed due to frosty weather on our visit). Toddler Baby 2.0 also amuses himself by running up and down the length of the cafe and rifling through the pebbles in the pot plants – and the waitstaff don’t mind at all.
They can provide numerous high chairs and impressive baby change facilities in each of the unisex disabled toilets, with enough room to circle a pram inside.
The Butcher 128 menu is split into breakfast from the deli, breakfast from the kitchen, lunch from the deli and lunch from the kitchen – basically a choice between hot meals and cold meals/baked goods.
I order the hot smoked salmon with a tangy pickled beetroot relish, Persian feta, avocado and two perfect sous vide poached eggs. The waiter tells me that the water bathing the eggs to their specific recipe before poaching them produces a better yolk consistency and texture every time. My eggs are both had gorgeously runny yolks with the whites just set. These are some of the best poached eggs I’ve had in a while.
T opts for a simple croissant with ham and brie which the kids mostly polish off along with their cheese and vegemite toastie. The kids menu includes another two simple items – cheese and tomato toastie and ham and cheese toastie.
The coffee comes from boutique roaster Maling Room and Lady AB devours her babycino with a marshmallow.
Butcher 128 is a great place for children and is just off the bike path too. In that sense it fits my criteria for the perfect cafe – child-friendly, bike-friendly plus of course with good food and service.
Play in Yarraville at Yarraville Gardens, Beaton Reserve and the Dinosaur Park
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- pram access;
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