Coal-fired bonito with miso eggplant, finger lime and seablite. Leek ash spaghetti with black garlic, chives, egg yolk and smoked carrot. Malt roasted cabbage with sprouted grains, artichoke custard and bottarga. Sourced Grocer’s menu reads like a top-of-town restaurant, but the cult favourite café is strictly lunch and breakfast, with most meals priced under $20.

Buckwheat noodles are house-made, as is the coffee kombucha and the lemon-myrtle cured salmon. Grains for the porridge are rolled that morning, served with date milk, maple-toasted quinoa and chestnut. The things you’ll dream about long after, though, are the ridiculously soft, comforting rye crumpets, slathered with Byron Bay butter and local Bee One Third honey.

Excellent food starts with good ingredients, and happily, most of the supplies used by the kitchen are on-hand in the grocer section. The goats’ cheese and free-range eggs that top the crisp Brussel sprout pancakes, for example, or the honeydew melon that goes with the market fish on seeded sourdough with kimchi and togarashi. Consider your credit card warned.

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