The menu commits to the bit in the best way — a Roo Burger made with actual kangaroo meat anchors the lineup, alongside a full Australian breakfast, house-made sausage rolls and meat pies, and a Melbourne-style chicken parma that leans into the dish's Aussie-pub reputation rather than the Italian-American version most Chicagoans know. Mornings bring house-roasted coffee (including flat whites, the genuine Australian café export) and house-made pastries, while a zucchini and corn rosti topped with baked salmon shows the kitchen isn't just leaning on novelty items.
It's part of a broader Streeterville dining resurgence that's brought several new restaurants to the neighborhood in recent years, and the cafe format — open from early breakfast through late dinner with a daily happy hour starting at 4pm — makes it one of the more flexible dining options on the Mag Mile for hotel guests and locals alike. Between the beans on toast and the kangaroo burger, it's a genuinely distinctive stop in a neighborhood more known for steakhouses and hotel bars than specific-country imports.
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