Sunday Brunchday

Two meals are sacred for hubby and myself--Friday night dinners (extra special for me) and Sunday brunch/breakfast-- our quality time.

Sunday brunch is our quality time--the one day of the week we don't wake up with an alarm clock. We can wake up, roll over and get up when we want to. It's our time to sit at a cafe, drink our coffee and indulge in some yumminess and the weekend paper--especially perving not the super real estate that one day (or never) we will eventually afford.

This Sunday though, rather than our usual 'us' us became we--meaning entourage of mother in law, father in law and visiting sister of woman hitler i mean mother in law. No really, she's not that bad.
Since driving is an insurmountable task to the lady, she naturally requested that 'we' go to Sirromet Wineries.

I've been there before, when there were no grapes and there are no grapes since now since I know this because I went at the same time last year. But I do see Facebook posts of brunches at Sirromet, they looked great so I have no objections to trying this.

Let's be honest, Queensland wineries have not been known to be fantastic. Personally i'm amazed grapes ca grow this heat without turning into sultanas. Sirromet however, has done well whether on part to the business acumen or the actual product.

We rocked up , parked our car and for a frightful moment thought here was no breakfast to be had when we approached the cellar door. Then it dawned on us that Restaurant Lurleen's, perched higher up does indeed serve breakfast.

Restaurant Lurleens 

It's a beautiful place, with a beautiful view. Stone, wood, view of rolling green hills and floods of natural light-- it's spectacular especially on a drowsy Sunday morning. Sitting down at a table with white linen tablecloth and served by waitresses in chef's whites seem a bit too formal for a Sunday but not completely out of place, especially when you look at the price of the breakfast menu.--$22 for eggs benedict.


Mother in law did her usual spiel of 'high calorie intake when you eat out' followed by 'I wanted to come here because my friend said the big breakfast was delicious' etc. People, this is a woman who went to a steak house and said 'It's not good to eat meat'. The aforementioned big breakfast as well as buttoned mushroom dish was ordered to be shared between my in laws and the auntie.

Put it this way, the big breakfast was a rather big (small) disappointment. Coagulated scrambled eggs and possibly tinned baked beans. I think coffee club could do better for less. Don't have a photo as I couldn't halt the seniors so I could take a photo.

Hubby and I had the salmon 'stack' and eggs benedict. Yes the eggs benedict with bacon is just as lonely as it looked on the plate--no amount of photo filters can hide how much white there was left on the plate. The bread underneath that pile of bacon (greasy, lukewarm) was soggy and compressed to soggy biscuit by the time you got to it.

Eggs Benedict, bacon costs extra 

The salmon stack was not exactly a stack in a traditional sense, organised pile? There is definitely a strong (salty) favour to the salmon-- but with semi ripe avocado, Coles? semidried tomato and saltier fetta-- I'm not sure if out of the packet smoked salmon would have been a bad substitute in this case.

House smoked salmon stack

If you could taste the meal then it would be a wonderful brunch. Maybe just coffee and a plain toast next time to have with the view.

View from the restaurant, the best accompaniment to the meal. Pity you can't taste it

There are other options at Sirromet--an italian/tuscan inspired place and the cellar door with a cake cabinet and cafe style options. Maybe those would be better but I'm in no hurry to try, especially with those prices.