Surabaya Gourmet: Libby Café

I’m sure all of you know Libby – they have a few small shops throughout Surabaya and are famous for their brownies (this is what I was told). But have you been at their café yet?

In my home country, we love to have a really big breakfast on weekends and often go to a small café for breakfast or brunch. We even have an old saying that goes something like this:

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

(This old wisdom still seems to be up-to-date considering the health advice that suggests you to eat only a small meal for dinner)

Anyways, I was missing having breakfast outside so we went to Libby café in Sukomanunggal area. The interior design of the café is nice, with a slight vintage touch, and the atmosphere is cozy. What we really liked is their small yard outside – me because I love being outside in the morning and enjoy the brightness before it gets too hot, and Carlo because the small yard is also the smoking area (bad, bad habit).

They have a few breakfast options and Carlo chose the American breakfast. It consists of toast, egg, baked beans, sausage, mushrooms and salad. It was nothing that would knock your taste buds off but still good. The toast was special as it was crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Carlo’s brother N. had the Fettuccini with mushroom and beef which seemed to be like fettuccini aglio olio. I wanted to satisfy my sweet tooth so I chose the Apple crumble toast (35k). It is toast topped with apples, A LOT of raisins and crumble and served with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. The whipped cream seemed artificial to me (it was that kind of ready-to-eat whipped cream that you can buy in something like a spray can, this is not original whipped cream and quite low quality). The toast was super sweet but it was delicious! For drinks, we had Ice dark mocha coffee and Green tea latte. The coffee was average, the green tea latte was great and very, very filling.

We were super full after eating at Libby Café so we didn’t again until afternoon (even though we went swimming after breakfast). It was not like the breakfast we had in mind, but the food was good value for money and the place is nice! If you want to read more about Libby café, check out the review on Haphap.

Have you tried Libby Café yet? And are Libby brownies really that good (I haven’t tried them yet)?

Please let me know in the comments below and feel free to comment in bahasa (it will help me improve) :-)