Rudimentary

Great café, love the concept of using shipping container. We only had coffee and it was good. The menu looks great and I would definitely love to come back and try their food.

I really liked how they designed and used the available space to create this Café. I would have never thought a place like this exists in Footscray. But as the place was new, it was quite busy at lunch time and had to wait for almost 45 mins, also they did not have enough tables to accommodate this vast number of customers.
But overall the service was good i would say, it was not worse nor that good! They forgot to give us the menu for a time, but later on apologized for that.
I ordered the all day brekky with 2 poached eggs and toast and all the rest (sausages, bacon, potato hash) were extra, which made it an expensive place to have lunch. But there portions was medium as well. And food was cooked quite well though on the well done side, which made it a bit chewy and hard.

A green, open oasis in urban Footscray, Rudimentary has only been open a week and is already doing gangbusters: On a Friday afternoon the line stretched out the door as tattooed hipsters and mums with bubs crowded into the airy and sunny space. The café is anchored by open kitchen/​dining room in converted shipping container. The space, all blond wood, green tiled counter, and sixties swivel chairs, opens onto the expansive, gravelly garden. Herb filled planters, plenty of bike parking, and a stretch of picnic ready astro turf makes for an inviting and relaxing place to chill and have a coffee.
The well curated menu features waffles with figs, a brisket sandwich, a «raw» salad, and selection of baked goods, and plenty of eggy things. I had the crumbed green tomato sandwich with tomato relish, mayo, and pickled onion on a fluffy brioche bun. Very decadent for a veggie sandwich, but full of flavour (could fried green tomatoes be my new favourite Melbourne café trend? Very likely). I was super stoked to see a small, mixed green salad punchy with vinigar dressing accompanying my sandwich. Perfect to cut through the sweetness and richness of the sandwich. It was a very reasonable 11 dollars. My flat white was good, served plenty hot, as I like it, and service was friendly, if a bit rushed.
So far, so good. I’m eager to come back and try a few more dishes here: As it is, Rudimentary has one of the best spaces in the west and at least one very good sandwich… Looking forward to next time.