Sydney cafe Platform Eighty Two's triple-layered breakfast features everything from bacon and smashed avocado to waffles… and is guaranteed to hit the spot modicanews,com

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It seems like cafes have really picked up their game over recent years.

From Nutella pizzas, to freakshakes and smashed avocado on top of everything, creations once described as incredible have now become menu staples at most good eateries.

But sometimes, when faced with a seemingly endless array of choices, it can be tough to decide on just one.

Well worry no more, because Sydney restaurant Platform Eighty Two has raised the bar again, creating an insane triple-layered breakfast feast guaranteed to hit the spot.

Breakfast mountain: Containing almost every breakfast ingredient under the sun this incredible triple-layered brunch feast at Sydney cafe Platform Eighty Two has become a hit with regular patrons

Mastermind: Platform Eighty Two’s owner and the creator of the breakfast feast is Anthony Piazza (pictured)

Containing everything they sell on their breakfast menu, this brunch monstrosity is the brain child of Platform Eighty Two’s owner Anthony Piazza.

‘I just wanted to touch on something that hits all spots because there’s nothing worse than when you go for brekky and you don’t know what to have, but now you can have everything all in one,’ Mr Piazza told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Basically on the bottom you get all your hot stuff, from hash browns, bacon, eggs, avocado and even goats cheese and crispy pancetta.

‘And then the top you get waffles or pretty much whatever sweet food the kitchen can give you, even pancakes or French toast.’

Delicious: The incredible spread contains everything they have on their breakfast menu

FEELING HUNGRY? WELL COULD YOU EAT ALL THIS? 

THE HOT STUFF

Bacon x 2

Mushrooms

Avocado

Eggs three ways

Hash Browns 

Goats’ cheese

Sausage patties

Roast tomato 

Crispy smoked pork belly

Pancetta

Toast

THE SWEET STUFF

Pancakes

OR french toast

OR waffles

Ice cream

Berries

Nutella

Kit Kat

M&M’s 

Fruity delight: It’s not all junk food on the menu, as these delectable fruit salad cups highlight

Sweet treats: A waffle stack topped with a waffle cone and a kit kat, and a chocolate freakshake are among the sugary treats on the menu

Popular: The breakfast feast is so popular, queues to get in to the cafe have stretched out the door

But while their breakfast triple-threat has quickly become a headline snatcher, that’s not all the cafe has to offer.

For the more reserved breakfast lover there are all your usual favourites from muesli bowls to good old fashion eggs on toast.

But you better hurry in quick because the breakfast mountain is in hot demand, with queues stretching out the door over recent weekends. 

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Russia's under fire Olympic team jet off to Rio following farewell ceremony with Vladimir Putin: 'We need to fight for those athletes who were disqualified' modicanews,com

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A much-depleted Russian team has departed for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, missing dozens of athletes who were excluded amid the country’s doping scandal.

Team members left on a charter flight from Moscow’s Sheremetevo airport to Brazil on Thursday, a day after an emotional farewell ceremony with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

More than 100 athletes from what was originally a 387-strong team have been barred from competing in Rio by international sports federations under sanctions which most Russian athletes consider unfair.

A much-depleted Russian team departed for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday

Team Russia has been under fire after the country’s huge doping scandal was revealed

More than 100 athletes from what was originally a 387-strong team have been barred from Rio

‘We’re after medals, that’s it,’ handball player Anna Sen said. ‘We need to fight for those athletes who were disqualified.’

Ignoring what he called ‘provocations addressed at our team and our mighty country,’ volleyball player Sergei Tetyukhin said: ‘Today, as never before, we need to stay united and become a family.’

No track and field athletes were among the contingent heading for Rio on Thursday’s flight with the entire track team banned from competing – save for a single American-based long jumper – following revelations of widespread doping.

The track team did, however, attend the ceremonial farewell with Putin on Wednesday, when the Russian president branded restrictions on Russia ‘pure discrimination.’

Russian athletes who have been allowed to compete have vowed to try and win gold for those disqualified 

Russian volleyball player Sergey Tetyukhin (right) speaks during the farewell ceremony

Russian president Vladamir Putin bid the team farewell alongside banned pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva

While Russia avoided a blanket ban from the games at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee board on Sunday, the IOC imposed new restrictions on Russia. 

International sports federations must now remove any athlete previously banned for doping or who was implicated in last week’s McLaren report alleging a mass cover up of failed drug tests.

Since the new rules came in, some federations have taken a tough line, with exclusions of much of Russia’s team from events such as rowing, canoeing and swimming. 

Other sports, such as judo and tennis, have allowed the entire Russian team to compete in their event. These rulings must still be ratified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Russia’s weightlifting team has been dogged by doping cases and faced further embarrassment on Wednesday when retests from the 2012 Olympics saw four samples, including three from medalists, test positive. 

The Russian lifting team risks being banned from the Rio Games en masse because of the large number of failures in retests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. 

The presence of any Russian athletes in Rio is of huge controversy given the events of recent weeks 

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