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Gluten-free muesli with yanilla yoghurt and apple

Globe and I met one summer’s morning last year, when a lazy breakfast was on the agenda in Prahran. The soft, warm breeze caressed my legs as I strolled with Tubbymaster into the café, past the cattle that loitered outside the various nightspots dotted along Chapel St.

A year later, Globe is still a firm favourite—despite the fact that Prahran is no longer a lazy walk from home. The menu has changed over the past 12 months, both in looks and in content, but the well-endowed baked goods lavishly flaunting themselves on the counter have been a mouth-watering constant. (Scones and Belgian chocolate brownies, I’m looking at you.)

Delicious baked goods, from afar

There are only so many ways you can dress up muesli, but Globe’s toasted version with poached peach and vanilla-bean yoghurt had been my favourite kind, with its injection of hazelnuts and all-round flavour. You’ll now a gluten-free version on the menu with vanilla yoghurt and apple, still a reliable bet. In winter, Tubbymaster would be tempted by the porridge, now with fresh fig and golden syrup, but invariably weaken at the knees and choose the big breakfast—or anything with eggs.

Lunch is equally as wonderful. On our last visit in January, Tubbymaster and I decided to split our meals, for my indecision was going to kill us both. My BBQ lamb sandwich with avocado, mint and feta on charred flat bread was excellent: an open sandwich that proved difficult to eat but easy to stomach: the sticky, smoky meat so delicious against the yielding creaminess of the avocado. It was with reluctance that I handed my plate over at the halfway mark, but with joy that I bit into the second half of a smoked eye-fillet sandwich with grilled onion, aioli, tomato and lettuce. I don’t know why a really good sandwich is so great, but I plan on investigating it again tonight, with chicken, avocado, ruby grapefruit and grilled ciabatta rolls—not at Globe, but Café Tubbymasu.

You can’t dine at Café Tubbymasu, but you can dine at Globe—and you will like what you eat.