Mjr Tom

Easy like Sunday mornings...and today we took a short walk to Smith Street to try out Mjr Tom. It's a cool fit out - wood, chipboard, corrugated steel but still manages to be cosy with little booths and nooks and crannies. It really manages to balance that industrial chic with warmth so there's clean lines but it's not cold. 

It's pretty quiet when we arrive so we have our pick of tables and it's hard to choose between the heated terrace out front or the intimate booth by the window at the back and we end up going with the window.

Service is very friendly and drinks orders are taken and we spread out with the newspaper and there's plenty of room for both of us to open up and sit in companiable silence.

We order:

Egg Revueltos (Spanish Scramble) - Home made chorizo, confit tomatoes, mushrooms, multigrain toast with a side of morcilla for Steve

Sarten (Hangover Cure) - Patatas bravas, artichoke, morcilla, fried eggs, spicy paprika aioli with a side of bacon for me

The Sarten comes in skillet and I like the morcilla and salty, crispy bacon with the creamy aioli all on top of cubes of roast potatoes. It's certainly a good way to start a morning. The thing with these iron skillets though is that I find the food inside gets a little greasy but the sharpness of the artichoke actually helps cut through some of that.

Steve gets through his eggs pretty quickly topping his toast with the egg mixture and eating it with his fingers. It's a little light on mushrooms I think but it all goes down well.

I have my fill of breakfast beverages starting with OJ, then a coffee and then finishing it all off with a pot of tea. The coffee is good; smooth with no bitterness or burnt tones which I like. The tea is also flavoursome and strong.

Loving your work Major Tom!