Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountains
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Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountains
Postby stevage11 » Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:16 pm
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby il padrone » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:50 am
For lunch in Bruthen always go to Le Cafe at Applespice Cottage. By far the nicest place in town, although the Bull-ant Brewery is mighty tempting too.
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby stevage11 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:18 pm
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby Tim » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:26 pm
The food in the pub is good, though the building looks a bit tired, the brewery and cafe are both good and the bakery aint bad either.
It's a helluva lot better than it used to be. It's quite a nice little town when you get to know it, just not quite as sophisticated as Lygon St (which suits me).
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby il padrone » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:40 pm
"We've got 5-star facilities you know"
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby Tim » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:54 pm
No worries Wally.il padrone wrote: "We've got 5-star facilities you know"
"We serve all fresh local produce", "Booking for seven, no worries, I can seat 200"-quote; Nowa Nowa Pub manager.
(If you don't mind waiting an hour and a half, after we've served the bikies)
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby FatGuts » Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:10 pm
We are off to Moruya tomorrow overnighting at Majors Creek.
I am looking forward to it, temperature it right, planning on two punts down into Araluen on Majors Creek/Araluen Road and a swim with beer in the Deua River. Sag wagon back to the pub for a feed.
Should be fun.
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby stevage11 » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:32 pm
Hmm. Bruthen was actually the very first food spot of my very first Australian cycle tour, back in 2008. Then I seemed to recall a spiffy gluten-free organic cafe, which is still there, but is just a generic blah cafe now. (Not that I actually particularly like organic/gluten-free, just saying...)Tim wrote:Bruthen has stepped up considerably from the days when it was just a timber-milling outpost prior to the Lakes Entrance bypass road going through.
The food in the pub is good, though the building looks a bit tired, the brewery and cafe are both good and the bakery aint bad either.
It's a helluva lot better than it used to be. It's quite a nice little town when you get to know it, just not quite as sophisticated as Lygon St (which suits me).
Don't get me wrong - I still like the town, it just felt decidedly less fancy and gourmet on this visit than it had previously. And the cafe parma was really impressively bad. It's hard to make a side salad offensively bad, but they managed. :/
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby il padrone » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:57 pm
That'd be Le Cafe at Applespice Cottage. We first ate there in 2003 and it has not really changed too much since then - certainly the food and service is just as good, and they had gluten-free meals on their menu.stevage11 wrote:Hmm. Bruthen was actually the very first food spot of my very first Australian cycle tour, back in 2008. Then I seemed to recall a spiffy gluten-free organic cafe, which is still there, but is just a generic blah cafe now. (Not that I actually particularly like organic/gluten-free, just saying...)
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby Tim » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:40 am
I think stevage11 might actually be referring to the cafe and foodery next door to the bakery. ip, we parked our bikes in the driveway in between the bakery and the other not-so-good cafe on the morning we headed out for Swifts Creek. I don't think any of our mob ate from there.il padrone wrote: stevage11 wrote:Hmm. Bruthen was actually the very first food spot of my very first Australian cycle tour, back in 2008. Then I seemed to recall a spiffy gluten-free organic cafe, which is still there, but is just a generic blah cafe now. (Not that I actually particularly like organic/gluten-free, just saying...)
That'd be Le Cafe at Applespice Cottage. We first ate there in 2003 and it has not really changed too much since then - certainly the food and service is just as good, and they had gluten-free meals on their menu.
I think Applespice is as good as it's ever been. Better coffee than the bakery, friendly service and good food.
On a similar note, I just don't think the tourism, food and accommodation people in East Gippsland have ever really been able to get their act together as well as say Victoria's west coast ie. Great Ocean Road or other places like Daylesford.
Some are excellent and some are terrible, and many are inconsistent. There seems to be a take-it-or-leave-it sort of attitude.
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby stevage11 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:12 am
Yeah, that sounds right - just to the right (west) of the bakery. Looking at Streetview, I was definitely confused - Le Cafe is the gluten-free place I had previously been (in 2008, and maybe 2011). So I retract all comments about Le Cafe changing
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby Tim » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:16 am
The slander action has been retracted.
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby slaw » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:57 am
Yup, that's right Tim. That cafe was better a few years ago. Pity Applespice wasn't open that morning we were there. We stopped there a couple of weeks ago on our way driving back from the NSW and had some delicious scones with their homemade jams and "lashings of whipped cream".Tim wrote:Ah good, glad that's sorted.
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Re: Steve & Tom's Offroad Cycletour Across the Snowy Mountai
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:51 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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