Groove Train Café

Groove Train Café

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Posted 2011-12-02 by Kathryn Pagefollow
The Groove Train is the type of café you could bring anyone to and everyone will find something they like to eat due to the choice on offer. It's also an ideal place to simply catch up for a coffee and slice of cake with a friend in the casual, relaxed environment. The franchise located at Melbourne Central has a great set up, with tables outside the café and has a very central location, being one floor up from the train station and one down from the cinema.



They sell meals from every genre including pizza, pasta, risotto, salad, traditional mains, foccacias and light meals. It's refreshing to see they include traditional as well as a few different or creative options in each genre. For starters, try the eggplant chips, crumbed in parmesan cheese and served with aioli ($13.90) or share an Asian platter with mini dim sims, spring rolls, samosas and prawn parcels served with honey soy dipping sauce ($14.90).

Their salads are known on the menu as 'The Green Room'. The warm lamb or chicken salad with cous cous is different, with the meat slices resting on a fruit and walnut cous cous, with salad vegetables of tomato, cucumber and Spanish onion and is topped with tzatziki ($18.90). Their 'Pastabilities' and risottos are pretty standard with offerings like fettuccine carbonara, spaghetti bolognese and pumpkin and spinach or oven roasted vegetable risotto ($18.90).

The main meals are delicious and very generous in size. The polenta and roast vegetable stack is adored by vegetarians and carnivores alike. It is huge and a work of art as to how it stays in place until you want to eat it. There are layers of polenta, oven roasted vegetables including capsicum, eggplant, zucchini and pumpkin, ricotta cheese and tangy pesto, topped with a rich tomato sauce and scattered with rocket ($18.90). The club sandwich is also a winner, comprising three layers of bread with lettuce, tomato, bacon, fried egg and mayonnaise and served with chips ($17.90). They also sell gourmet pizzas with toppings like smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers or lamb, olives, spinach, mozzarella cheese, napoli sauce and tzatziki ($20.90). The foccacias are standard but good value for lunch at $10.90.



I booked a table for twenty for my 25th birthday and the staff were great. I did have to pay a refundable deposit of $150, however, the bill wasn't able to be split so it was just lucky everyone didn't pull out a $50 note. Despite being a Saturday night, we didn't have to wait too long for the meals to come out and at similar times and it was the perfect location eating outside the actual café so that any friends running late could see us there.

The Groove Train is a stand out from the standard cafes.

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