Locations of all the cheese farms in New Zealand are listed in a massive poster on the side of this Kiwi inspired cafe in a lively strip in Balaclava. A place so passionate about its cheese was always going to win my heart.
The name Batch apparently comes from the New Zealand word for 'holiday home, 'Bach'. This means a small, modest holiday house. This place certainly has a very casually put together, comfortable holiday feel to it with all the dated New Zealand souvenirs and posters, as well as the tips jar being labelled, 'Tups'.
I ate a delicious fluffy omelette filled with salami, fetta and a generous slather of pesto for breakfast at Batch today. Pesto really does make everything taste amazing! They also had a wide selection of bagel selections on the menu, perhaps freshly baked from Glicks Bakery just down the road. (more about Glicks later..)
The staff are quite inflexible with the menu and a waitress pointedly refused to even consider the possibility of adding mushrooms to an order. She sadly informed us that menus were on the morning breakfast menu and they were no longer serving from that menu today. (It was only 15 minutes after and I wasn't quite sure why it was that hard to just add mushrooms to the order when they were probably just sitting there in the kitchen!) The efficient service made up for this though and we were brought our very nutty flavoured coffees just minutes after ordering them! Clearly the staff here are very serious about their coffees.
Carlisle Street in Balaclava is a wonderful little street to visit with all kinds of interesting quirky second hand shops and lots of boutiques with handmade crafts and clothing by emerging fashion designers. A few other breakfast places on the strip are wonderful too, including the much loved Las Chicas and famous Glicks Bakery. More on Balaclava soon.
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