Icing Hill Cafe

🤍✨ICING HILL✨🤍 @icinghill.brisbane Location: 1 Commercial Rd, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 Rating: 4/5✨ have been eyeing @icinghill.brisbane for YEARSSSS, and finally got to visit for brunch! they are famous for their desserts i knowww but i heard their brunch was underrated and had to try🤭🥰🤩 we got ✨🍽: 🍝🍤 salted egg yolk pasta with prawns ($21): this was soooo packed with salted egg!! very impressed!! many other places advertise their menu items with salted egg but the flavour is very bland or subtle but this is the very opposite!!🥰🤩if you love salted egg you must try this!! pasta was cooked beautifully and the prawns were so fresh and delicious!! visually so beautiful as well🤩🤤the portion i would say is a little small? but luckily it’s not tooooo expensive as i’ve seen places with the same portion but more pricey~ 🌭🍳breaky dog ($10): this dish was originally $15 but it was their monthly special🤩🥰incredibly fluffy brioche bun with layers of sautéed spinach, fluffy egg omelette, two hash browns and a stunning drizzle of spicy mayo this was soooo loaded and filling oh my, such bargain for $10🤩🥳a pretty good dish!!! 🍉watermelon frappe ($6.5): this was so refreshing and delicious!! super super fresh and not sticky sweet or fake like other places~ great for a hot day! 🍊fresh orange ($6): how ADORABLE is this glass?! a freaking light bulb are you kidding, love it, nothing else to say really, you can’t go wrong with a fresh orange, refreshing and yum! conclusion, highly recommend @icinghill.brisbane their quality here is incredible and presentation is 🤩🥳unfortunately we were too full from it to try their desserts, but definitely next time!🥰

Order a macha crepe cake for my friend’s birthday, but unfortunately was disrupted by the flood, since some of the roads were blocked, I wouldn’t be able to go and collect the cake on time, the staff is very nice and helped me to freeze the cake for a few days, at last I wasn’t able to collect the cake in city but the staff managed to help me to deliver the cake to cache cache (Rochedale) and my friend helped me to collect it, the cake is so delicious and my friend loves it so much! really appreciate the customer service, and thank you for understanding customer’s difficulties and try to work out the best for us! Highly recommend and will order again soon in the future!

We went Icinghill Cafe' at 1, Commercial Road, Newstead on the weekend for afternoon tea with high expectations as it was highly rated in many places like Facebook. However, our experience was less than ordinary. Waiting time at the counter was around 10 minutes, given we were the only customer at the counter.. One lady at the counter was on the phone for ages, with a few others behind her doing their own things. Then a gentlemen came to serve us after around 10 minutes. We ordered 3 cakes and coffee as you can see in the photo. I think only Durian Cake we've ordered was good, while the rest were much less than ordinary. especially given the price tag they had on it was not cheap as well. My conclusion is there is a lot of room for improvement, especially the service !! It could have not been worse!! Or I should say has to be one of the worse service I have ever experienced in any coffee shop in Brisbane.

Finally visited Icing Hill after having been to their newer sister store Cache Cache a few times. They first came across my radar for their sweet cakes and dessert offerings, but on this visit we were satisfied with just the savoury mains which are equally impressive. Apart for the sweet stuff in the display cabinet, they serve an all-day breakfast menu, a selection of pastries in a separate cabinet, and a range of drinks. There is also a specials menu on the wall. Ordering and payment is at the counter, and there is self-service water plus some newspapers available. I really enjoyed my pasta dish - everything was just cooked perfectly including the texture and char on the prawns, and the fried leek element gave it another dimension of aromatic adornment. Wifey’s choice of eggs benny was really good too - this is not something I’d usually go for but I could appreciate the generous amount of mushroom included and the eggs themselves which were superbly poached. There are a few other variants of the benny croissant with different proteins going up to $21, and you can also switch out the croissant for sourdough or waffle. Saw a few other tables order the Ben Ben Chicken Wings which looked really good too, so I’ve earmarked it for next time. It’s not often you see something that features fermented tofu so if you know what this is you’ll know it’s a punchy element (and maybe a bit of an acquired taste). Our order: * salty egg yolk & king prawn pasta, $21 - spaghettini pasta with curry leaf cream sauce, salty egg yolk, pumpkin, onion, zucchini, garlic, chilli, fried leek * benny croissant with mushroom & halloumi cheese, $18 - fresh baked croissant, baby spinach, apple cider hollandaise sauce, Chinese pickles, chives Notes: * Icing Hill is located on the ground floor of the Broadway on Ann building (apartment block) * There is some customer parking available in the building’s car park (enter from Commercial Rd), however spaces are limited and it was full when I went even though the cafe itself was no more than 50% occupied at the time * You can get 10% when paying with Payo (new users can sign-up with my code EWXG4S to get $10 credit after your first payment)