The Grain Store

The Grain Store

Pull up a chair to a table of inspiration

Food touches us on every level. It is multifaceted. It is nutritional, political, sensual, pleasurable and sustainable all at once. The Grain Store, situated at 517 Flinders Lane Melbourne, understands this, and it is this knowledge underpins their entire operation.

Entirely representative of Melbourne's emerging food intelligentsia, it all comes down to food. Simple food.

Which is unsurprisingly delicious. Unique in its philosophy and approach, this new heavy hitter on Melbourne's sometimes overcrowded café scene offers up top quality restaurant food, from chef Ingo Meissner.

What sets The Grain Store apart from the rest is its focus on sustainable and ethical food and resources. Taking great care to be in step with the seasons, Meissner thoughtfully crafted menu reflects this integrity. As Nina Rousseau from The Age has so astutely identified: 'The Grain Store sounds like a slow train to down town hippydom".

When was the last time you swooned over a salad? Or a vegetarian tart sang to you in dulcet tones of local, seasonal flavours, direct from the source?

A breakfast to look forward to is a good reason to get out of bed in the morning. The breakfast of champions beckon, with substantial serves of Cotechino & Lentil Cassoulet with poached eggs or go the crowd pleaser, the orange cured salmon served with poached eggs.

The lunch menu is simple and delicious, the heirloom beetroot salad, or the Romsey Range buttery beef cheeks with winter vegetables, Russian red kale and vanilla parsnip puree. Finish off with a playful flourish and indulge in the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and milk! Lunch dishes range from $11 to $25 – which makes restaurant quality food an every day lunchtime habit that you can afford.

Chef Ingo Meissner says 'I go direct to source to find the very best Victorian, seasonal produce. I don't to try to improve on Mother Nature, as she is the real artist, I just frame the beauty of her produce."

Acknowledging that coffee blends are best for different style's of coffee, The Grain Store also take great pains to ensure that you receive a perfectly balanced and flavoursome cup. Using St Ali specialty blends for milk based coffee and Axil's seasonal espresso blend for espressos all through the -Queen' of coffee machines, a -La Marzocco'.

The Grain store uses produce and supplied from Brunswick's Ceres Market Gardens and local farmers.

The Grain Store is also a proud Cere's Depot drop off point meaning that customers can order their fruit and veg supplies dropped off weekly by the Cere's team – grown locally and seasonally in tune.

www.grainstore.com.au
www.members.ceresfairfood.org.au