Reviews
Simple name, simply great food
Rowena Robertson, Reviewer
The sister café to Hawthorn's Liar Liar, APTE is a slightly less edgy, more family-oriented venue set on Heidelberg Road, smack in the midst of a mainly residential section of Alphington. On the day I went, the clientele included young mums with babies, ladies who lunch (or breakfast, as the case may be), and a few mum-and-daughter couplings, of which I was one.
I always seem to be attracted to the same types of dishes. I realised, after placing my order, that the meal I'd chosen (toasted banana bread with honey labneh, pistachios and seasonal fruit) was extremely similar to the breakfast I'd ordered when I went to Liar Liar. Silly me. Anyway, our waiter told me that they'd taken the banana bread off the menu at one point, only to have customers demand its return. I can see why-it is truly divine. My mum chose the veggie breakfast, which included two perfectly poached eggs, a whole half avocado, oven-roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and APTE's house-made relish.
