Once Upon a Time, Gina and I had driven past Love Grub and its colourful mural exterior jumped out at us. Then afterwards, Teena mentioned that she saw that Love Grub was teeming with people when she had driven past it on our way to lunch with us. So when Queen Viv and I were in need of nourishment one day mid shopping we decided to stop here for lunch. It was a stellar Autumn day – the sun was shining through the trees and the warmth meant that you didn’t quite need that coat. Outside, below the mural is a well maintained and fairly abundant community garden plot as well as oodles of kid’s amusements.
We walk inside and are greeted warmly. It’s so warm that at first I think that the “Hi there” spoken to us is for someone else. We take a seat at the bright orange vinyl padded chairs and table and take a look around. It’s a touch garage/vintage sale meets Japan by way of menu and befits the neighbourhood and we get the feeling that it’s popular among locals. The menu is filled with sushi borne from the chef’s 9 years living in Japan and also features cafe style burgers, sandwiches and salads with a slight twist. We spy a willowy blonde behind us eating a crunchy cabbage salad and wanting a salad, Queen Viv and I share one along with some sushi.
Soy Chai $5
Blood Orange Juice $4
Queen Viv orders a chai but finds it too milky for her but milky is just how I like my chai tea. I choose a Parker’s Blood Orange Juice which is tart and refreshing and quite thick with pulp (which I prefer).
Bacon and Egg Hand Roll $5
Although this sounds strange in theory, it’s said to be one of their most popular breakfast items. The hand roll has a rasher of bacon, egg and tomato sauce. Yes I realise many people may be appalled by the idea but I don’t mind it at all. I used to eat eggs and tomato sauce when I wa a child (I think it’s a Chinese thing) and I enjoy this.
Crunchy Asian Salad with Salmon $13.50
With this salad, you can choose your protein from either salmon, chicken or tofu. The salmon is not particularly plentiful and it’s mostly on one side but the salad is rather huge, and made up of finely shredded cabbage, celery, daikon (Japanese radish), carrot and egg omelette and is healthy and filling with a light Japanese style dressing.
Egg sushi$9.50
The egg sushi with mushroom, capsicum, avocado, cucumber and mayonnaise is rather good we have to say. It comes in 8 large pieces and just about the right amount of rice to filling.
Fortified with a bacon and egg sushi (I never thought I’d ever say that) and other goodies we go forth to shop! For what you may ask? For more food of course!
So tell me Dear Reader, what is your favourite lunch item? A sandwich? Sushi? Soup? Or something else altogether?
Love Grub
38 Mitchell Road, Alexandria, NSW
Tel: +61 (02) 9318 2323
Open 7 days from 7am-3pm
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This looks like one chilled out hangout spot. I LIKE! and i want an egg and bacon roll too. nom nom. x
What a fun and quirky place, the food looks fab.
What an unusual breakfast! I don’t know that you get more fusion food (fused food?) than a bacon and egg hand roll!
The mural is gorgeous, and if I liked eggs I’d love the bacon and egg handroll!
There is a little Greek place down near where I used to work and they do the most amazing lamb and lemony potatoes.. I get this with gravy and steamed veggies on a cold and wintery day – OMG yum
I don’t think eggs with tomato sauce is just a Chinese thing. It is a very Italian thing too. (Eggs in purgatory). I love a good grilled cheese for lunch. I could eat one everyday.
You can’t beat a Vietnamese BBQ Chicken Roll for lunch!!!!
that bacon & egg hand roll is such a brilliant idea! i also sometimes eat scrambled eggs with tomato sauce
have you heard about chaas?!! ok leave it have you heard about lassi?!! I love spicy lassi on hot days as my lunch…actually lassi has to be sweet or its not lassi… but just to explain you. we spice quite thin buttermilk with chopped green chillies, ginger then add chopped coriander leaves, a dash of roasted and ground cumin seeds, salt and pepper. this is masala chaas.
I can’t go past a freshly made roll stuffed with so much salad I have to shovel it in. Lunch will be early today I think.
I love BBQ sauce on a bacon and egg roll so I guess tomato sauce isn’t completely strange.
For some reason, that bacon and egg sushi keeps making me giggle
Love the look of the salad, too! Favourite lunch? Hmm… I pretyt much love oatbran with peanut butter at any time of the day 
What a cool little hangout!! Now, if I ever visit Australia, I’ll need to email you for some great places to eat at!! Great post!
Lunch items tend to be leftovers from the night before thanks to nothing being remotely edible near where I work, but on my off days, I absolutely love brown rice sushi rolls!
Or sandwiches. I love sandwiches too!
What a lovely quirky place! My favourite lunch is anything cooked by anyone except me!
hrmmm… anything stirfried from malacca straits down near broadway! the horfun.. or the fried beehoon.. or the butter chicken!!! or how abt the sambal udang! hrmm… and the assam udang!! yum! any of the above would be my choice meal for lunch!!!
I’ve driven past this place a hundred times and wondered what it was like. Now I can see thanks to you!
I am totally going to make that bacon and egg hand roll. YUM!
Lunch for me is usually a latte and a handful of cashews on the run. Really need to do something about that.
Husband and I were both exposed to the joys of bacon, fried eggs, tomato sauce and rice as children. I agree, it must be a Chinese thing!
Interesting place!
Sushi for me….anytime!
All the food looks delicious! Very interesting sushi rolls, I’d love to try those. A favorite lunch item of mine right now is a very sloppy, oily, Italian-style tuna sandwich on ciabatta.
Wow bacon & egg sushi is definitely something I haven’t come across before but strangely appealing!
I’m definitely a sushi-for-lunch girl although I can never resist the squid salad & always have one to start.
This place looks refreshingly different. I tried my first sushi egg roll recently and loved it! Bacon and eggs + sushi = win.
I’ve heard about that hand roll – interesting to see it
Breakfast Sushi, that is a novel concept. I would be willing to give it a go.
Wow, I miss this place – I always used to go here for lunch when I was working in Redfern. The lunch box meals are pretty good
Interesting concept… the bacon and egg hand roll especially!
A wrap, or a grilled sandwich with soup is my fave lunch. But egg and bacon sushi? now that’s a first I’ve heard, but I sure would like to make that my new fave!
This place sounds very cosy, perfect for a lazy lunch. Thanks for the review, I’d like to try this place out.
Bacon and Egg hand roll ^^
Don’t really like tomato sauce on everything , it has it’s place on bbq meats etc but some people use too much of it , probably because of the high sugar content.
If I’m home, nothing beats a plate of pasta with a quick 5 min. sauce of vine-ripened cherry tomatoes, olive oil, chilli and fresh basil . If I’m out , a lovely, fresh salad with some protein such as salmon, chicken or prawns.
I love the bacon and egg sushi concept but hold the tomato sauce. My fave lunch at the moment is any type of soup to keep me warm so I can survive the Melbourne winter!
This looks like a cute place. And the bacon and egg handroll definitely caught my eye.
Bacon and egg roll? What an adorable place… like that love shack video… was that inspiration!
What lovely photos! If ever I”m in the area I’ll know where to have lunch. That salad looks amazing. As to my favorite luch, it has to be noodles of any type. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings…Mary
I have a confession: I almost always douse my scramled eggs with ketchup. (The horror, I know, lol! Mike tells me all that time that it’s gross.
) I can imagine how wonderful that hand roll with egg and tomato sauce is though. 
The salad looks great! I’m a hopeless lunch eater as I’d rather not eat at all than eat something that I don’t feel like. But recently the salad rolls with chilli, soy and coriander at my local vietnamese bakery have been a highlight – as well as the discovery that the thai place right near work does a $10 lunch special! MMM!
I love the name of this place! Looks like such a nice place to chill after a busy day.
I only wish we had more of these cafes in London!
i like thick pulp juices too
I am sure it tasted great but the crispy shard of bacon and creamy looking scrambled egg is just not what my mind thinks it should see poking out of nori sheets and sushi rice! How clever.
Yup super funky cool cafe… defo worth a visit when in the area.
i love the van graffiti–maybe i’ll do my car up like that.
i enjoy thick pulp too, which is a drastic change from my tastes as a child. if there was even a shred of pulp, i wouldn’t drink the juice.
That’s a really cute cafe – and I want a bacon and egg roll now!
I love to love the love grub. Their burgers are great too! Just down the road is a old school milk bar that does crackling pork and gravy on a roll for $6. Nothing fancy just well cooked meat on a roll. Brilliant.
I used to eat scrambled eggs with tomato sauce when I was a kid!!!
but now I can no longer eat it after an unfortunate incident that I will not post here, and now even the smell of scrambled egg with tomato sauce (which my mum still eats), makes me feel a little nauseas.
but that egg sushi looks pretty good.
hi NQN,
thanks so much for your wonderful profile on love grub. love your work!
much love, the grubs xo
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