Rue De Creperie

Rue De Creperie is such a cute little place tucked down the quieter end of Brunswick St. Our visit was at 1030 at night, and the crepes were a bit bland and disappointing, but that might have been the late night visit type of thing.
The service was friendly and quick, though and we got a discount on our takeaway milkshakes as they were in smaller cups which was much appreciated.

I went to Rue de Creperie with a group of vegans. Rue de Creperie can make most of their crepes vegan, which is awesome considering that crepes are usually pretty heavy on the dairy and eggs. Rue de Creperie catered for us beautifully even though we were all vegan and were a fairly large group (7 – 8 people). In fact, there were almost TOO many choices — we vegan-​folk are used to only having one or two options on the menu — so we sat there for ages exclaiming in delight over everything and debating back and forth about what to get. The young French waiter put up with this waffling (pun intended) with an elegant, half-​pained expression on his face, so typical of the French, then took our orders with quick precision and disappeared. Voilà! Within minutes, our first round of crepes was served.
We all ordered savoury crepes to start with. I had Cheese & Tomato with cherry tomatoes, basil, and olive oil. The vegan cheese they used was Cheezly. I’m not usually a huge fan of Cheezly, but I have to admit it tasted pretty darn good in the crêpe. A funny thing about my crêpe as opposed to everyone else’s is that it mine came out open-​faced, with a giant square window in it – a giant square window into its delicious Cheezly soul.
After that we ordered a round of sweet crepes. This time the crepes took a long time to arrive — over 40 minutes. Granted, the place had started filling up with lots of other diners by then, and we *were* a pretty large group with special dietary requirements, but the wait did seem unnecessarily long.
But man, oh, man, I loved that sweet crêpe. It came with a scoop of yummy vegan vanilla ice cream, some chopped nuts and a drizzle of vegan Nutella sauce. Everyone else in our group loved their sweet crepes too. In fact, I’d say we all preferred our sweet crepes over our savoury ones, so maybe it’s fair to say that sweet crepes are Rue de Creperie’s strong point.
Anyway. After stuffing ourselves full of two rounds of crepes, we all left Rue de Creperie feeling delightfully heavy and full of delicious saturated fat. Very pleased to know where I can find yummy vegan crepes in Melbourne from now on.
For the record, here are the crepes they can make vegan:
SAVOURY — Veggie Galette, Mushroom & Cheese, Cheese & Tomato, or Walnut & Fig.
SWEET — Sugar and Lemon, Strawberry Heaven, Salted Caramel, Banana Split, Thailand Special, Pear Belle, or Apple Delight. All come with vegan vanilla ice cream.

We were after a quick bite before cocktails and crepes fit the bill perfectly but I was less than impressed with this place.
While one friend ordered a sweet crêpe and was pleased with what he got, I ordered a cheese and tomato crêpe and was disappointed. The filling was ok (probably could have done with some more) but the crêpe itself was burnt to a crisp and basically shattered everywhere so half of it was inedible and the parts that I did eat you could still taste burnt crêpe.
I’m a bit sad because I had such high hopes but there’s definitely better creperies in this city!