The General Eatery & Supplies, Dulwich Hill

So I’ve been stalking Dave Moran on Instagram since his days at The Baron in Castle Hill, my fave Westie cafe and have keenly awaited the opening of The General Eatery & Supplies in Dulwich Hill. With a focus on fresh, seasonal produce and coffee by Single Origin Roasters, it’s no surprise to see all the locals streaming in.

So how’s the menu work? First, decide on which salad and how much of it you’d like, ($10/1 salad, $12/2 salads or $14/3 salads), the salads change depending on the produce sourced from the markets but todays options were Grain (pearl barley, quinoa, kale, tomato and pomegranate vinaigrette), Leaf (cos, avocado, cucumber, dill and pesto) and Veg (chargrilled corn with tomato salsa). Then you can add Today’s Cut ($10) which happened to be brisket smoked low and slow for 14 hours.

That brisket. I mean, just look at it. Laying there all sexy and inviting, displaying juicy meat and glorious pockets of fat with caramelised edges. It barely needed that puddle of barbeque sauce because it was just that tender and juicy it seemed like a crime to eat it with anything else! The salad is worth a mention too- I heart grilled corn where each kernel was bursting with that sunshiney goodness and intense smoky flavour.

And then you can add extras of bread and butter ($3) from the Bread & Butter Project, soup ($7), sandwich ($12) or a Ploughman’s Board ($15) if you were after something lighter. The sandwich of the day was salmon that had been poached in white white and then smoked for an hour with apple wood. There was a generous amount of salmon in the sandwich with a schmear of cream cheese and dill and thin slices of cucumber and watercress. This is my idea of the perfect sandwich for summer (so here’s hoping it gets warmer soon!), it’s nice and light but filling enough that you won’t get hungry 2 hours later and curse your life choices.

Noods has been craving soup all week so we got the Pumpkin soup to share and by share I mean I got maybe 3 spoonfuls before looking up and seeing him guiltily swiping the bowl clean with bread. While I always appreciate the inclusion of butter with my bread, I reckon it didn’t need it because the soup was pretty damn spectacular and I’m usually not the biggest fan of pumpkin soup but this one was awesome, rich and hearty and ridiculously smooth.

If you happen to wake up and roll out of bed and stumble to The General before 11am you can satisfy your breakfast needs with a menu that runs from Granola ($12), Avo on toast ($12) or this beauty of a Bacon and egg roll ($10) with avocado, tomato relish and a smoky bbq sauce.

On another visit we arrived on a Sunday for the Sunday Roast where 20 bux gets you a mega slab of juicy pork with an edge of golden crackle, the neon pink hues of braised apple cabbage, Spanish onion that had been roasted until sweetly tender and soul warming honey roasted carrots and parsnips. We were offered seconds but decided to grab a Woah Nelly donut for the road instead because, donuts 😛

The General Eatery is off to a cracking start and I’m looking forward to when they start doing dinners from the 11th September and word on the street is they’ll be serving some pretty ace whiskeys too!

The General Eatery & Supplies
514 Marrickville Road,
Dulwich Hill

Trading Hours:
Mon: Closed
Tue – Sun: 7am–3pm