The Cooks Pantry

The mushroom brushetta, is the perfect combination. The tangy goats curd goes so well with the mushroom and garlic! The smoothies are also very yummy! The service is always amazing and everything is organic, what more could you want!

Popped in for a quick feed after having my hair done at the salon. They had a good choice of meals to order and a mix of vegetarian and non vego. Could do with having some vegan options as well but many of the vego ones allowed room to add or take things out if you wished.
I ordered the basil tomato bruschetta minus the cheese, add spinach and when it came out, smelt amazing. But did not live up to it. There was just something missing: garlic. The bread was great tho, the juices from the tomato had soaked right in and made it soft and somewhat delicious.
Will definitely come back to try their other meals and even the coffee. They also offfer organic produce.

Its raining, and not just a little spit here and there. It took a little while to get here, as I had to deal with flooded grid locked roads and the crazy impatient drivers that seem to pop up all over the place when Mother Nature is at her worst!
I half expected this place to be empty, but I guess everyone else had the same brilliant idea of having a coffee and breakfast to warm the tummy undercover outside in the rain. I had been like a fish out of water during the heatwave so this torrential rain was just the perfect remedy to moisten my dried out scales!
It was packed, mainly with lovebirds due to Valentine’s Day. My date was my mum.
We looked up and down the menu board, umming and ahhhing. Everything sounded so nice!
Did our usual order of lattes and our breakfast options. This is really the benchmark for most of our outings. The coffee HAS to be good! We are little fusspots when it comes to coffee, and food.
Quite awhile later we got our lattes. Cute teeny tiny cups, maybe a bit too tiny but the flavour was alright. Nothing fantastic. I felt good about having organic fair trade beans, but I was on the assumption that all their stuff was organic. So it was kind of a bit of a shock and surprise to see one of the staff come back with 2 litre bottles of Pura Milk that she had got from the small grocer just a few doors down. No wonder my coffee didn’t have that creamy palate had it been made with b.d. Paris Creek or Fleureau Milk perhaps.
Hoping the breakfast was better than our coffees, once again a good wait later we finally got the plates plonked on to the table. My mum ordered the Mushroom Bruchetta with Goats Curd and I ordered the Cheese and Tomato Omelette. I have to say presentation let them down on this one. It just didn’t have the WOW factor. I plate up my breakfasts better at home.
The food was good, everything was cooked beautifully and had lovely flavours. I got to try some of my mums dish and kind of wish I had ordered that instead. The tangy goats curd teamed with the mushrooms was a tasty combination. The bread they used was quite dry so was glad to get a small plate with a chunk of the b.d. Paris Creek butter.
While my experience with The Cooks Pantry was acceptable I do believe this place could be better. So with that I will come back to try again to see if things improve, because honestly, there is room for improvement when I compare it to some of my favourite breakfast joints.

My, my hasn’t Jetty Street Grange grown and developed into a trendy, fashionable place to be compared to times gone by with struggling shop renters trying to make a living. It’s a Cinderella story and the fairy godmother decided to make changes for the better, I wish others would follow suit… uhhuum Port Adelaide… hellloooo.
Now to The Cooks Pantry… delightful in a word. With so many competing cafes, bakeries, coffee houses, there needs to be an edge and by George I think they’ve got it! Loaded with stock much like a mini version of the Store in North Adelaide but have diversified to holding cooking classes, which I am going to seriously check out and soon.
Eat in or takeaway or if your feeling adventurous get the ingredients yourself and cook up a storm at home. Be sure to scatter the funky empty jars all over the kitchen just to prove you’ve made it yourself though!
Yes, BUY SOUTH AUSTRALIAN is written all over The Cooks Pantry, as organic and as close to nature as possible, this is a hit.

Finding this café randomly when I was desperate for a coffee was one of the best decisions I have made! For organic coffee, it was quite delicious! Not bitter at all. Also, thank you to the man serving me for being one of the most polite men I have ever met and making my day!
For a small venue, this shop still seemed very cosy. With an interesting décor which suits the entire ‘organic’ flavour that they were reaching for.
According to the website, The Cooks Pantry also offer event catering, cooking classes and take home meals. Using all fresh and organic produce from the local area.