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Duo plan egg cafe for Clocks at Flinders Street Station

Nola James

Eggshack's menu will go to work on eggs.
Eggshack's menu will go to work on eggs.Supplied

Melbourne is about to get another egg-centric cafe. Inspired by cult American venues Eggslut (Los Angeles) and Egg Shop (New York City) and the upcoming Lucky Peach cookbook All About Eggs (due early April), Darran Smith and Steve Schreuder​ hope to open Eggshack at Flinders Street Station next April.

"Lots of places in the States are all about eggs but in Australia it hasn't really happened yet," says Smith. The pair have taken over Clocks cafe on the river side of the station, which they'll turn into a egg-based cafe on the ground floor and a speakeasy-style bar in the basement. .

The pair, who took over the site in August, are promising "pretty much anything with an egg in it" on the menu – egg tarts, steak and eggs, schnitzel a la holstein (crumbed schnitzel topped with eggs sunny side up) and bacon and egg sarnies from 7am until 3am.

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The basement whiskey bar, 18th Street, is named for a now-defunct New York subway station. It will get a 1920s-style renovation thanks to Studio Nine.

They're promising a run of exclusive and one-off whiskies in collaboration with Melbourne Moonshine, and a natural wine list featuring Georgian qvevri​ wine, made in an egg-shaped earthenware amphora.

The pair will get cracking on the renovations at the end of January.

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