Mammoth
Mammoth is located in a triangular building on the corner of Malvern Road and Beatty Avenue (prior Treat Catering and Cafe) somehow awkward, modern and definitely stand out. I personally love the California beach-like oasis interior design by Techne Architecture + Interior Design, they have created a spacious, super bright, airy with slightly different levels and corners dividing the cafe into smaller and intimate areas. It's decorated with blue steel, brown leather stools, American-oak surfaces, pastel blue terrazzo tiled floor matches both the bar tables and the building's exterior. The whole interior reminded me of Santa Monica Beach in California, the blue creates a calming atmosphere, the white brick brighten up the place and splashes of pink, yellow and orange creates extra attraction the place. This is a fresh brunch scene, retiring from the classic warehouse industrial scenes.
Coconut Yoghurt Custard ($14) - strawberry salad, raw buckwheat and wattle seed granola, rapeseed oil. This dish is very well presented, pretty, feminine and petit. It was fresh, light and tasty.
Grilled Lychee and
Passionfruit Chia Pudding ($14) - macadamia, hemp seed crumble, blood
orange. This is one of my favourite dish, it was sweet but overly sweet and
have some bitterness from the blood orange and the grilled lychee and
passionfruit jelly was delicious
Char Spanner Crab Egg Crepe ($24) - bean shoot salad, water chestnut, lemon sorbet. It was light, fresh and creative. The spanner crab egg blackened with squid ink served with fresh, tangy lemon sorbet. This another dish you would not find else where.
Egg Brulee ($16) - bread and butter, pickled zucchini, artichoke, toast. The egg was beautifully made and had certain sweetness to it which I love, the bread was more of accumulations of grains rather than bread. It was heavy and sweet.
North Shore ($18.5) - smokey ham hock hash, flame grilled pineapple, tobasco, jalapeno popper, poached egg. This is a pretty standard dish with a twist. Love the sweet sour grilled pineapple and the smokey ham hock hash was creamy in the inside and crunchy on the outside.
The Benedict ($20) -
duck sausage, orange and corn blini, pickled onion, fried egg, smoked maple
hollandaise. Love a nice twist on the classic egg benedict and it was
pretty successful. The combination duck and orange is usually seen in a
high end fine dining restaurant menu and to partner it up with a brunch dish
was excellent. My favourite thing on the plate was the smoked maple
hollandaise, it gives a certain sweetness to it.
Desserts: Golden Gaytime Panna Cotta ($15) - honey comb, sable biscuit, chocolate coated popping candy.
I love panna cotta so I was really excited about this but it's a bit disappointing cause the panna cotta it self was too dense. It needed to be more smooth, creamy and create a melt in your mouth moment. The garnish was excellent, love the honey comb. Chocolate coated popping candy was fun and just transport you to your childhood moment.
They also have variety of salted caramel donut, raspberry donut, mars bars muffins and other sweet snacks to accompany your coffee or tea.
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Monday-Friday: 7am-3.30pm
Saturday-Sunday: 7.30am-4pm
Mammoth
http://eatmammoth.com/
736 Malvern Road
Armadale, VIC 3143
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