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 […]
Sub-Station Cafe, Alexandria
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 […]