little white truths

It's been far too long since I did a restaurant review and I don't have nearly as many food-related photos sitting in my drafts as I should.

Through the sleep deprived haze of my baby brain, it's been so much easier to just keep posting on beauty products because I've been doing that daily for over a year now and I don't have to reach for things to say - I already have comments floating in my head from trialling the products, so the posts are half written even before I've put the first word down.

But little white truths is meant to be a life blog, and I'd always intended to do more posts on things other than beauty products. It may even be that this blog eventually moves away from beauty-related posts so I do those only occasionally: I've been hoping this blog will grow with me, and there's certainly a lot more I could be doing with it than I currently am.

Anyhoo. We recently went to Palm Cove, our first holiday with our daughter. We didn't eat out that much because we had a kitchen in our apartment and don't have pennies to spare, but we ate at Vivo Bar and Grill twice and I had a coffee there every other day.

The restaurant was recommended to us by the receptionist from our hotel. She promised we'd find decent coffee there, and sure enough we did. One thing I love about Australia is that it's easy enough to find a decent coffee almost anywhere you go.

So yes, Vivo does a great coffee - not always easy when your chosen milk is of the soy variety. We also had a great breakfast there (see below) on our first day, when we'd arrived after taking our flight at some ungodly hour and needed to load up on energy for the day ahead.

The second meal we had there was 'dinner' at about 4.30pm (you'll eat when you can when it comes to having a baby!), which wasn't very good but I'll overlook that because the kitchen wasn't running as normal at that time and we had to pick something from the bar menu.


Mex ordered the above dish from the breakfast menu, and unfortunately it's no longer listed. Foo! It's toast with ham, cheese, rocket and two poached eggs (not pictured - the chef forgot those but they turned up a moment later when he remembered).

I wasn't expecting him to like it because he generally prefers more complex meals, but he said this was really well done. The ingredients were of good quality and the flavour was good. He would order it again, which you could do by constructing your own dish from the sides portion of the menu.


I ordered the Vietnamese pancake ($22), which comes with tiger prawns, coconut crepe, eschallots, peanuts, wombok, bean shoots, chilli, shredded sesame omelette, crispy onion and housemade sambal.