Cosy café that feels like home

By Ashley Felderhof, Crema magazine

Friday, December 18, 2009

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Foxy Brown is one of those rarest of things: a cosy corner café in a former house that actually still feels like someone's living room — in fact, original 70's furniture pieces provide a cosy backdrop in this long and narrow space, as does mood lighting in front and rear courtyards.

Such is the emphasis on coffee at Foxy, that one of the first things you notice about the place is the massive coffee blackboard on the wall, which dwarfs the kitchen's daily specials board.

Owner Patrick Sloane spent six months fine tuning the coffee blend with master roaster Joshua Bailey. The espresso blend they came up with is a combination of high altitude shade-grown ingredients, which are also available individually as 'Foxy Bean of the Day' components.

It's not only about the coffee, however, Foxy also specialises in organic food. With menu items like Harlem Hustle — poached eggs, free range bacon, baked mushrooms, NY potatoes with a roast tomato and chipotle salsa ($16), or the Byron Bustle — scrambled tofu with olives, baby spinach, fresh herbs and cashew dukka on pumpkin sourdough ($12), you'd wish you could eat here every day!

Foxy prides itself on being mostly organic and uses Fairtrade coffee wherever possible. And they're such coffee purists that they even use a special certified biodynamic un-homogenised milk to balance the perfect brew. We can handle coffee fanatics like that!

Foxy Brown Espresso Bar & Café
31 South Crescent
Northcote VIC 3070
Tel: 03 9481 4454
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