Cafe 63, New Farm

The Saturday before yesterday, I was meeting some friends in New Farm for breakfast.  We wandered around New Farm and decided that Cafe 63 was as good a place as any.  I perused the breakfast menu, which had a number of appealing looking dishes, but one caught my eye:  poutine.  I have been meaning to try this dish for some time now, but it's not exactly common in Brisbane.  For those of you that don't know, poutine is a Canadian dish consisting of chips, gravy, and cheese.  Cafe 63's take on the dish also added bacon.  I immediately placed my order and waited for my breakfast to arrive.  The first thing I noticed was that the chips were of the shoe-string variety, the likes of which one finds at McDonald's and Hungry Jack's.  While these are not my favourite type of chips, they were noticeably better than the aforementioned fast food chains.  The dish did suffer from something that is common with chips and gravy dishes; namely that some chips do not have enough gravy, and others are soaked in the stuff.  The gravy itself was good, but not excellent.  However, it would have to be a particularly bad gravy for me not to like it.  The cheese was more or less what one would expect from a cafe, and was the stretchiest that I have encountered in some time.  The bacon, which was already a welcome addition to the dish was a little better than what I was expecting.  Overall, I am of the opinion that Cafe 63's interpretation of poutine could be improved upon.  However, I did enjoy it and am glad that there is at least one location where I can get the stuff.