Cafes serving healthy, wholesome food are not new in Sydney. But few of them have had a veteran chef consult on the menu. Tomislav Martinovic has worked in Heston Blumenthal’s lauded UK restaurant Fat Duck, and used to run well-regarded Darlinghurst restaurant Tomislav, among others.
He worked with the owners of Holly, Justin Stevenson and Laura Hayes. They’re behind brunch houses Coop & Cart in Haymarket and Redfern’s Everyday Espresso , the latter of which also benefitted from Martinovic’s menu input.
Holly is familiar. There are oats soaked overnight and served with coconut yoghurt, fresh mango, lime, blueberries, freeze-dried apple and walnut crumble. And eggs any way with tomato and salsa verde. At lunch there’s a vegan bowl of house-made falafel, wild rice, turmeric “yoghurt”, avocado, kale and toasted walnuts; hot-smoked salmon poke; and a couple burgers.
The Hulk smoothie is made with a jumble of green ingredients such as kale, spinach, spirulina and non-greens such as hemp oil, banana and apple juice.
Three blends of coffee are featured each month including Holly’s own blend, the Boulevard. Choose how you want it brewed: batch, chilled, filtered and manual pour-over (where the beans are ground to order). If the choice is manual pour-over it can be done through a V60, chemex, or kalita.
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