My favourite café north of bridge has opened
an offshoot in Marrickville. You’ll find the new Kurumac Café in the Addison
Road area, which is also home to other great coffee shops like Coffee Alchemy.
Kurumac is Japanese for Coolmac. Yes, you’ve guess that right, it’s
by the same awesome team behind Coolmac Café in Kirribilli.
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| Pastries by Bread and Butter Project |
Kurumac is a partnership between my homies
Eugene Leung and Dika Prianata. The space is very Japanese in terms of
minimalism and clean lines. Everything from décor to fittings are smooth and
crisp. Then there’s the uber cool murals done by artist Ar-chive. Head chef Jun
brings his Japanese café style flair to Marrickville with his Japanese café
classics with a twist. I visited them twice this past week.
Their coffee is sourced from Campos. For
filter coffee lovers out there, they have a rotating batch ($5) on offer. They
had a fruity Kenya available on batch during my visit. They use the Campos
Superior blend for their milk coffee. I had a piccolo latte ($4) and it had a
full body with milk chocolate notes.
The onigiri rice ball set ($14) comes with
miso soup and tamagoyaki. You get two sushi rice balls where 1 is stuffed with
avocado and the other with tanaka or Japanese pickled mustard greens. Simple
yet addictive! The tamagoyaki were fluffy, slightly sweet and flavoursome.
The grilled salmon congee ($17) is a must try
from their all day menu. It’s a Japanese style congee with perfectly cooked
grilled salmon and umami packed juicy ikura. To top all of that, it also comes
with crispiest and super tasty salmon skin.
The curry scrambled eggs and tempura prawns
($19) on toast was another favourite of mine. Delightful fluffy eggs with
Japanese curry and crisped tempura. The creamy chilli sauce also had notes of
umami.
The ox tongue curry with koshihikari rice ($24) is
available during lunch. The ox tongue was tender and buttery, which is nicely
complimented by Jun’s very own Japanese curry blend and dollops of cream. The
fragrant koshihikari rice was perfect for mopping up all that delicious curry.
Another dish that y’all need to try is the
tempura eel with green tea broth rice ($23) a.k.a. ochazuke. There’s just
another whole level of depth to the flavours when you have rice poured with
green tea broth and paired with tempura eel. You get earthy, sweet and umami
notes and the contrast of textures just works so well.
They have a few beverages that uses Mapo
Newtown (my current favourite gelato shop in Sydney) gelato. Their hojicha
gelato milkshake was insanely good. There’s a nice balance of that roasted tea
and creamy milky goodness.
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| Wagyu beef, udon and prawn fritter |
Kurumac is the best of 2 worlds: Japanese
flavours and good Australian vibes. Another awesome thing about their spot is
that there’s a lot of street parking in the area.
Kurumac
107 Addison Road
Marrickville NSW
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Opening hours:
7am to 4pm - 7 days
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