Neighbors Cafe

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  NEIGHBORS CAFE, 1 main course, 1 latte and 1 smoothie: AED126, US$34, £28, EUR31.Neighbor Cafe is planted in the middle of Jumeirah, an area that needs more trendy breakfast spots and cafes like the desert needs more sand. Within a stone’s throw of this leafy residential area are a number of other places that twin as surf shops or look like they’ve been painted in Gaviscon liquid. It begs the question why anyone would push and park their baby strollers here at Neighbors Cafes leaving their customary with an abundance of choice.The interior decor is a warmer industrial look with dark walls and shiny concrete floors punctuated with industrial lighting burning a warm orange glow from metallic instalments. Despite the floor to ceiling windows there is a moody dark vibe throughout. You can look into the semi-open kitchen from the light wooden tables and chairs in the dining room. The menu includes de regure, staple breakfast options (available all day) but with twists like a salted caramel french toast, avocado toast with ricotta and pickled chili and a full English breakfast with lamb sausage. Other more unusual options include a cheese and zaatar pide, turkish eggs and a miso bagel with mushrooms.There’s a lunch menu featuring sea bream, burgers, thai green chicken and lamb shank with pearl couscous. It’s a promising menu with a mixture of well known items peppered with some lesser seen dishes.I ordered the Benny Brisket featuring a large slab of polish bread (shaped like a rectangular ciabatta topped with barbecue brisket, compressed green apple and poached eggs with toasted wonton topped with yuzu hollandaise. There is a lot going on here for Dhs 64. However there may be too much going on. The portion is generous but this feels like a case of less is more. The bread is not toasted (or not toasted enough) which makes it a large carb sponge for the sweet barbecue brisket sauce. But not in a good way, the bread is soggy. The light yuzu hollandaise mingles with the barbecue sauce; there is a lot of sauce here which could be paired back a touch. The crispy wonton is a nice idea to bring much needed texture to this dish which is otherwise distinctly soft. The kitchen should lean in the texture elements more but, alas, the toasted wonton does not lift a slab of sauce-logged bread.The iced coconut latte is a slushy with trace coffee flavouring topped with toasted coconut shavings. The beetroot and kale smoothie with banana, orange and peppered with chia seeds is a bright magenta lantern, juicy and drinkable.Would I return to Neighbor Cafe? I would come back for lunch to try some of their other options. Neighbor Cafe has a lot of competition in this area; if you stand outside Neighbor Cafe and throw a stone, you hit four other breakfast places. Literally, there is a bagel shop and other restaurants planted in front of Neighbors Cafe. There is no shortage of imagination here but you do not come back for imagination alone. They should focus on details, ask whether to keep, to remove or maybe to toast, more.#breakfast #jumeirah #eggs eatgosee.com

  December 29, 2019, 9:47 am

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