Popular Isle of Wight cafe served up some treats for Matt and Cat

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With its attractive heritage-style facade, would Betty's Door be that place in East Cowes?

Betty's Door cheesecake (Image: Matt and Cat)

From the extensive menu, we chose one of Betty's Toppers — fried eggs on toast, plus poached eggs with avocado and salsa, along with coffee.

Fried eggs on toast, eh? What could be more basic, you'd think?

A standard greasy spoon snack from the olden days, was elevated at Betty's Door into a pleasingly symmetrical dish, served on a stoneware platter with a twirl of pea shoots.

The bread had a lovely flavour of malt and bran, with a decent bite — but not too challengingly woody, like sourdough can sometimes be.

The eggs were perfectly fried — yolks runny, and overall retaining very little grease.

This simple dish had a pleasing subtle flavour.

How one smashes an avocado is not entirely clear. At Betty's Door it was not into smithereens with some kind of pear hammer, more blended and seasoned, with a hint of chilli.

On top came tasty fried mushrooms and what had been described on the menu as salsa.

This turned out to be diced raw red, amber and green peppers, plus red onion — yet no tomatoes.

Fried egg on toast served at Betty's Door. (Image: Matt and Cat)

Poached egg on avocado. (Image: Matt and Cat)

The crunchy vegetables, though tasty enough as a garnish, offered an interesting texture contrast to the rest of the dish's moist and spreadable components.

It was not quite what was expected, and the soft egg fought for attention with these more dominant ingredients — a bold take on this hipster classic.

It seemed insensitive to leave the last orphaned piece of ginger and lemon cheesecake in the chiller, so we took that and two forks as our afters.

Made by Definitely Cheesecakes, this moist and fluffy sweet was spectacularly creamy; the topping delicately-flavoured in gentle tones of lemon, and the base was created from crushed spicy ginger biscuits.

We'd advise that you take a friend, as this is definitely a dessert made for sharing. Betty's Door may not have been in East Cowes for as long as its classic exterior might infer.

However, it does have its own legend, that of 'Nanna Bet' and the Manx symbol.

We'd tell you more, but instead we'd urge you to pop along yourself to find out, and while you are there, enjoy a beautifully created light lunch in a homely and charming setting.