Bacar

A new place today for the ongoing Eggs Benedict trials. A cafe called Bacar just off the Midlevels Escalator. It looked very inviting from the escalator, with a chalkboard menu outside advertising (amongst other things) Eggs Benedict. Very laid back, with a few people sitting relaxing with coffee and the paper. The cafe is long and narrow (as are most of the places around here), with couch-style seats along one side.

The Eggs Benedict turned out to be two poached eggs with bacon and spinach, on two good-sized pieces of rye bread. Not quite Eggs Benedict. However, it was good. The bread was toasted nicely, the eggs were done properly (still runny inside) and the sauce was good. I'm not keen on spinach, but this time it seemed to work ok. Coffee was ok, although the Latte I ordered after the eggs was good.

In terms of scores?

• Eggs - 10/10 - cooked just right.
• Bread - 8/10 - rye bread instead of a muffin, but toasted right.
• Hollandaise - 8/10 - could have used a little more, but it tasted good and wasn't too thin.
• Coffee - 5/10 - "could try harder".
• Ambience - 9/10 - this could become a regular place to chill on the weekend.
• Total - 40/50.