Tag: cafe

Cafe Giulia

I love Sunday brunch. There is just something different about a brunch on Sunday; it’s informal, sacred, unfettered, real. It was real today. It was muggy in the packed-out corner cafe, that smells of sizzling bacon and big Saturday nights. Cafe Giulia on Abercrombie St in Chippendale, is great. It […]

Cow and the Moon

After reading a review in this week’s Good Living from the SMH, I hot-footed it to Cow and the Moon in Enmore, for some artisan gelato! Winning eight medals at the Sydney Royal Fine Food Show, including the prize for Champion Gelato, that was awarded to their “lime in coconut” […]

Workshop Espresso

Workshop Espresso is my new favourite mid-city coffee haunt. A sliver of a shop, barely 3m across, they make fabulous coffee. I have been there on numerous occasions and am never disappointed. As I introduced a friend to it today, he noted the intense concentration on the barista’s face as […]

Little Willy’s

So it’s day two of my Perth trip, and I am walking through Northbridge, when I hear, “Catherine?”. I turn around. Here, 3000km from home, is my old drama school flat mate, Katie, who last week I was meant to catch up with whilst I was in Melbourne but she […]

The Old Haunts

I took a trip down memory lane this week. I returned to Perth where I had spent three years at drama school. This was the first time I’d been back since leaving in 2005. It was weird to be back. It seemed so small, like I could take it in […]

Ablacadabra!

Having a craving for all things Middle Eastern and delicious of late, Elizabeth, Baby Maggie and I made the journey to Abla’s Pastries in Granville today. This is the mother of all Arabian sweet shops. Spoilt for choice, my eyes bulging no matter which direction I looked, I opted for […]