V rating: VVVV

Where: 12 Salamanca Square, Battery Point
When: 7 days a week until 6pm
Tel: (03) 6224 9922
Price: $2 - $ 20 and a decent breakfast can be had for around $10-15.

For those of you with a bit of time on your hands looking for a place to eat in Hobart’s trendy Salamanca area, you can’t go wrong with Machine Laundry cafe.

I looked at four other cafe menus before reaching Hobart’s version of vegetarian breakfast bliss - a cafe where only three of the many options were not vegetarian, and where the breakfast items were combinable according to your whim. I went for the tofu scramble roti at first, until the waiter warned me kindly that it was a cold dish (maybe my scarf, five layers and gloves gave me away as a non-local). So I opted for a couple of poached eggs, mushrooms, homemade baked beans and spinach. That and a couple of decaf soy lattes later and I was a very content little vegemite. The prices are reasonable, the menu varied and the vegeterian options innovative. Plus, you can do your laundry next door while you eat and drink in the Hobart sun (truly - there is sun to take the edge off!) in a laundromat straight from the set of Happy Days.

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