Tag: cafe

West End Coffee House

Exploring a new city is a task both exciting and disappointing; the luscious highs when one finds a gem, be it good coffee, sourdough or Mexican, and the aching lows when one pays $4 for coffee-flavoured hot milk, $7.50 for artisan sourdough more doughy than sour and goes to one […]

The Pig & Pastry

A super sweet, corner cafe serving up delicious breakfasts… Did somebody say, bacon?

Pearl

Another day in Birs Vegas, another cafe. Pearl of Woolloongabba is a timeless looking establishment that I instantly know I am going to like. We wander in at 11am, however, breakfast has finished and there is no lunch until 12pm… Hmmmm. We have a coffee and decide to wait until […]

The Gunshop Cafe

Although I have stayed in Brisbane for longish periods of time while touring with a how, I have not really checked out the cafe culture. It certainly isn’t peppered with places like Sydney or Melbourne, but I did manage to find a couple of gems. Shotgun Cafe is in the […]

Element6

The drab borough of West Ryde has not much to offer humanity; it’s bleak, stale and in a total state of decay, and is only missing that “wild wag of an oculist”, T.J. Eckelburg to preside over the residents. You can imagine my surprise at the discovery of a super […]

Typika Artisan Roasters

Perching in Claremont, where blonde soccer mums drive around in BMW 4wds, Typika Artisan Roasters is another epic space churning out good coffee and food. The coffee is mellow with no bitterness and there is something satisfying about watching the coffee man pour beans into a shiny silver roaster while […]