Bertas, Marrickville

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I love a good breakfast sandwich so last weekend saw us as Berta’s Deli in Marrickville which opened in late May and is already a hit with the locals.

We start with the hashbrown which is golden, with crisp edges giving way to fluffy, potatoey perfection.

The bacon & egg muffin is pretty damn amazing. Crispy bacon, a golden fried egg, and that mysterious special sauce — all stacked inside a warm, pillowy English muffin. It’s smoky, salty, saucy and messy in the best way possible.

The sausage + egg is the heavyweight champion of breakfast, with a juicy savoury sausage patty, golden egg, melted Emmental and a swipe of that special sauce.

We also grab a sandwich to take to the park, the rare roast beef 2.0 has me in absolute raptures — layers of wasabi mayo bringing heat, onion jam adding that sticky sweetness, pickled onions for the crunch + tang, all hugged together by sturdy slabs of Turkish bread.

And of course, we couldn’t leave without grabbing some house-baked cookies. The miso tahini cookie is soft, chewy, and dangerously moreish, while the macadamia and white chocolate cookie is sweet, nutty, and equally irresistible — basically impossible to eat just one of either.