Butcher 128, Yarraville

We were en route to Macedon one day and decided to stop at a hip brunch place at Yarraville. Butcher 128 is so called because it used to be a butcher shop. It still has the glass display cases previously used to show cuts of meat now relegated to storage space and juice cooler. 

I ordered the Baron sandwich - grilled beef brisket pastrami with swiss cheese, mustard and a pickle ($14.50). The cheese made it a flavourful sandwich, who can resist melty cheese? Inflation has really set in, because I would have commented in the past about paying more than $7 for a sandwich but now we just accept it and hope there is no service surcharge, weekend surcharge, credit card surcharge lurking at the end of the meal. 

Butcher's BBQ Plate ($18.50) came with charred beef brisket pastrami, blood pudding, coleslaw, figs and a pickle. And boy, were we in a pickle! In our haste to order, we did not realise that we had both ordered beef brisket pastrami albeit in differing forms. Mine in a sandwich and Gaz's deconstructed. 

The pastrami was dry, so it really needed the coleslaw. I believe we had the last plate of pastrami because at first the kitchen told us they had ran out. They did ran out of sourdough bread so we got a big Vietnamese baguette instead, which was a good variation because otherwise it would have been nearly identical to my sandwich order! The blood pudding was a nice touch of difference because it was very tasty. 

There is a semi outdoor seating out back which has a play area for kids which makes this a nice place to hang out for families.