Sub-Station Cafe, Alexandria

I’ve driven past this place so many times, but it’s strangely hard to get to since you can’t just pull up out front and the street parking in this semi-industrial location seems to fill up with semi-industrial vehicles. But inside the disused shell of Electricity Substation No. 152, Sub-Station Cafe is like a wonderfully refurbished little oasis, with the side […]

Cafe 101, Alexandria

Cafe 101 wouldn’t be my first choice for a cafe outing. For a start, it’s inside the Alexandria Homemaker Centre, but I guess I’m a homemaker, so here I am. The coffee was not well executed. I burnt my tongue first, then tasted that thick overboiled milk flavour. The banana bread was kinda ok, in theory. It had the right […]

Vitaland, Alexandria

Vitaland *shudder*. If you can get over the PTSD, maybe you can consider Vitaland a cafe, and not just a place to park your kids for an hour. Let’s face it, the cafe here is pretty much incidental, existing solely within a huge kids indoor play facility. It’s an amazing place – we came for the little one’s birthday and […]

The Kiosk, Sydney Park

I love on-location cafes, like Redleaf Cafe, that are legitimate cafes in their own right but are also right where you want to be. You come for the location, but a good on-location cafe is a bonus. Unfortunately, I’m at Sydney Park way too often, and the kiosk, creatively named The Kiosk, isn’t quite the fantastic bonus I wish it […]