The Hare and the Hatter, Bayswater

There is a new cafe in Bayswater called The Hare and the Hatter. On the weekends, it is so busy that it is best to go before lunch time to beat the crowd and actually get a parking spot from the very small parking lot, and to get a decent seat in the cafe.

What I love about this place is the long glass case near the cashier counter that displays all the colourful and interesting looking individually sized cakes. I am sure the cakes would have tasted great as well. If only we had the stomach space for desserts after our brunch.

I ordered the Jabberwocky's Tale $18.50- slow poached salmon and poached egg,  seaweed crisps (seaweed coated with tapioca flour then fried), endamame, and seaweed salad on the side. The seaweed crisps try to add some texture to the dish but some of them were already soft - perhaps an airproof container for these would come in handy). Besides that, the salmon was poached and soft, the egg was poached and soft and rich and nothing really was on the plate to cut through the richness and add texture to the soft on the dish.

 

Gaz's dish Benedictine Adventure $19- poached eggs with hash brown, Korean pulled pork and pickled daikon. I believe most dishes on the menu had some kind of Asian ingredient element to them. The house made hash brown was interesting - it had shredded daikon as well as potatoes. I found the daikon shreds a bit raw for my tasted. The hash was thick and so didn't have the right crispy and soft balance that I enjoy and look forward to with hash browns. The pulled pork was stringy (that is something I find common with pulled pork. Sorry pulled pork, it's me, not you) but Gaz enjoyed the flavours.

 

 

I think the next time we visit this place it would be to try their large array of cakes and sweets. They do look very exotic and different from the other places. I'm sure these are all made on the premises rather than being carted in each morning from a wholesaler. But, we'll have to visit again to try it out.