Plan B by Becasse

204 Clarence Street,Sydney. (02) 9283 3440
Please don’t hate me, but I went to Plan B by Becasse and I didn’t have the wagyu burger. But the good news is that I had a sandwich; the most gorgeous sandy I’ve had in years. And I haven’t even told you about the plum tart yet…

So I headed up to Sydney for work. I like Sydney. And I was sitting in my company’s Sydney office and I called my girlfriend, Harbour Radish.

“Um, where do I go for lunch?”

“What do you feel like?”

“Something Sydney people would eat for lunch.”

“Where are you?”

“I don’t know. Hang on, I’ll use the GPS on my iPhone. OK. I’m in York Street.”

“Go to Plan B by Becasse”.  So I Googled it, printed off a map and away I went!

Now, Plan B is the extraordinarily small, down-market café next to the famous Sydney restaurant Becasse. And its signature thing is a wagyu hamburger ($10). It also has pastries made by Becasse’s patissier. When it is described as a ‘hole in the wall’, you can take the description as completely literal. There are only five seats in the whole place and all were taken. And one of the diners was eating a burger. And. Well. It looked, um, dry. So I decided the world was trying to tell me something and had a peek in the fridge at the sandwiches. And instantly fell in love. My lunch was packed up and off I went back to the office (I followed the map all the way back) and laid out my desk-picnic.

The sandwich ($9.00) was filled with proschiutto, cornichons, gruyere cheese, lettuce and tomato. The bread was crispy outside but really soft inside. Have you noticed that lately sandwiches seem to occur in rolls that are so hard you practically need a mouth full of canine teeth to take them apart? Well this sandwich was the perfect combination of crispy but soft. Divine.

I also picked up a tiny little blood plum tart. Just something small and sweet – the pastry was crispy and delicious, the custard inside creamy and full-bodied and the plum was sweet and sour. Amazing.

And then to top it all off, I picked up a CHERRY COKE (?!) on the way back to the office. Haven’t had one for years – the medicinal aftertaste never gets old.

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