Dear Abbey

Dear Abbey Cafe in Moonee Ponds highlights the Melbourne cafe culture perfectly, serving breakfast and lunch daily with both indoor and outdoor seating options.

Dear Abbey’s main dining room is a big glass box bolted on to the front of a 1890s Wesleyan church, which has itself been converted into apartments. The glass box is the first of a series of indoor-outdoor spaces that charmingly abut old and new. There’s also a courtyard under the spire and a corridor lined with small dining tables.

The menu is contemporary and the food is all about well-executed standards, presented with pride. There are both vegetarian and gluten free options available. For breakfast try the “Eggs Bene-Duck” with poached eggs, Peking duck, Peking hollandaise sauce, black sesame seeds with witlof and snow pea tendrils on toasted roti bread. For lunch there are classics like the Wagyu beef burger with pickled gherkins, tomato, tasty cheese, mayonnaise and Dear Abbey special sauce on a beetroot brioche bun with beer battered lemon pepper chips or be more adventurous with the Vietnamese chicken noodle bowl with marinated chicken thigh fillets, vermicelli noodles, cucumber, Vietnamese mint, coriander, mixed lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, Asian slaw, peanuts and a Nuoc Cham sauce.

Connoisseur Club Members welcome for 20% off the total bill.

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