Little Bird Cafe

The little bird café is a great place to chill back with a good book, a laptop for work or with friends on their large wooden tables and indulge in some cheap and cheerful cake and coffee.
The cakes are decorated with flowers, come in a variety of interesting flavours (salted caramel, lemon yoghurt, mango cheesecake, kaffir lemon) and for 6.50 a slice you get a massive helping.
Indulge in a cold smoothie or shake made out of clean ingredients. This fine day I had the Choco mint with dates, raw cacao, mint and almond milk.
The kaffir lemon cake with its deliciously lemony topping and soft raspberry flavoured sponge cake was morsel after morsel heaven in my mouth. The Choco mint was refreshing on a hot hot day and not sweet at all. Just yum.

Our drinks come out quite quickly which is a nice touch considering how busy they are. Its such a cute place with a kitschy recycled furniture feel and a shabby chic look — but the food is definitely modern and excitingly fresh. They have a really healthy feel to a lot of what they do.
My drink is the Love Tonic freshly squeezed juice ($ 7.00) which is up there in the price but is a decent size serving and tastes incredible. You can really get the pops of zingy raspberry in every sip. It was a really delicious drink and just what I needed to kickstart my day.
My dining companion’s dish of the breakfast bruschetta comes out with requested gluten free toast and is topped with bacon, tomato, greens, avocado and goats curd. She also adds a poached egg on top because who doesn’t love a good poached egg with breakfast! There’s a drizzle of olive oil on the plate.
The dish is simple but tasty, especially thanks to the punchy goats curd. She takes one bite of the gluten free toast and I can see she’s apprehensive if it as ordered. I have to admit, when I took a bite I was always doubtful — it was too yummy! But we checked with our waitress and she assured us that it was and that it was often queried by customers. Looks like we know where in Perth now has the best gluten free toast around.
I did feel bad for her when she cut into her poached egg though as it had none of that runny yolky heaven we all look forward to — it was cooked through. What a shame!
My dish was the birds nest ($ 14.00) which came with poached eggs on a crispy potato nest and a parsley and celery foam. Now talk about aesthetically pleasing dishes! It was as pretty as a picture and so beautifully flavoured.
The potato nest was crunchy and well seasoned, offering a nice crunchy texture in contrast to the foam underneath. I really enjoyed the vibrancy of the parsley and celery, and just how fresh it tasted. It lifted the dish and was very different to anything I’ve tried at other brekky spots.
Thankfully my eggs were both cooked perfectly, with a river of yolk running out onto the other ingredients in my bowl. There is definitely something very satisfying about egg yolk — the richness and the fact that you don’t need anything else to have a tasty meal. It’s the ideal sauce for any breakfast in my opinion.
What a fantastic brekky and one that lived up to all my hopes. I’m looking forward to returning soon to try more of their pretty little dishes and to sip on some of their fruit flavoured waters which they provide to customers free of charge. What a great idea!

This place will have to be one of my favourite cafes. It has a vintage /​retro feel to it, chairs are relaxing and easy to have a nice chilled morning or afternoon either alone or with friends. Their food presentation is superb and the tomato relish sauce is to die for, a definite must try. Lastly, they have the most creative juices, different blends and combinations and a range of organic ones as well. :)