Garage Espresso - TillyEats Chapel Street #1

Down the scragglier end of Chapel Street, you’ll find this converted mechanics workshop turned hipster-esque café. Decked out with exposed brick, wooden benches, crates of fresh produce and an array of cookbooks. Garage Espresso has a clean fresh feeling while holding onto a lot of history.

You’ll be greeted with a cabinet full of baked goods with flavour combinations such as sour cherry, chocolate, and coconut. You might even spot a custard bronut, which I can only assume is a brioche-donut combination (a different spin on the trend that went around a few years ago with cronuts).

The menu boasts the average café fair, with their own twist on things. Most of the items are meat-free, which is disappointing for a carnivore like me.

The coffee is excellent, it’s smooth and milky and deserves the line up of mums dropping their kids off at the school across the road each day.

Eggs Benedict is such an old classic. So many places try and revamp it to make it something new and exciting and 99% of the time they fail. You know, classics are classics, right?

Most of the time you shouldn’t mess with a classic.

At Garage Espresso, they definitely should have messed with the old eggs bennie! They’ve made it something that gets your taste buds dancing. Poached eggs and bacon served on brioche toast, which I swear to you is a croissant shaped into a loaf. Drizzled with apple cider vinegar (and we all know pork and apples go together like Sandy and Danny).

Although space is tight, it doesn’t stop the team at Garage Espresso pumping out a tonne of coffee and breakfasts. A great place to visit if you want a relaxing, no fuss brunch experience.

Check out my video of Garage Espresso here (lots of food shots): ▶️ DTube