Focaccia has quickly become one of Australia’s favourite breakfast foods. The savoury Italian dish has become a staple of Ain’t Nonna’s in Wollongong, who say they make one of “the best” focaccia around.
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00:00The focaccia has quickly become one of the nation's favourite cafe breakfast menu items.
00:05So what makes a perfect focaccia?
00:07And why are we all so obsessed with this Italian flatbread breakfast staple?
00:11Staff at Wollongong's Aint Nonna's Cafe say they've cracked the secret to baking the best
00:15focaccia in Australia.
00:16So we make the base dough, which is pretty basic, just flour, water, yeast, olive oil.
00:24We knead it together, and then it kind of just rests, and it's a mixture of resting
00:28and folding throughout the 48-hour time period.
00:33So it has time to develop structure, flavour, and obviously that airiness that we all love.
00:41The restaurant takes a laid-back approach to topping their focaccias, deciding what
00:44to do on the day.
00:45I don't know whether it's seasonal.
00:46Oh yeah, that's the biggest thing about Aint Nonna's, like, what's seasonal, and that we
00:50just utilise what's available with markets, what's cheap, affordable, and then we just
00:56go from there.
00:57And Rob just, like, looks at a fridge, okay, we'll use that up.
01:00Yeah, people do love it.
01:02It's been a slow burn, but it's definitely picking up traction, which is great.
01:06I think that culture of having the full breakfast with your poached eggs and all that other
01:11stuff, and we're offering, like, an Italian-style bakery, so just, like, getting that style
01:16of food across has been a little bit of a burn, but once they get it and they love it,
01:20it's like, alright.
01:21Aint Nonna's makes around five topped focaccias a day, and six un-topped for their dinner
01:25services.
01:26So un-topped for our dinner menu, your plunged dinner menu, I'll get, so that's kind of our
01:31operation on there.
01:33And would you guys say you guys have the best focaccia in Wollongong?
01:37The best.
01:38Yeah.
01:39The best.
01:40I'll take it.