Keyword results: Cafe
The Zizioli brothers (Damiano, previously of Pizza Mario, and Fausto, the barista from Paddington Alimentari), along with their good friend Sam, have turned the simple into the sensational...
This is something of a tradition, said to have its beginnings in Emilia Romagna many moons ago. From this part of northern Italy, variations have been passed down through the regions between families, and now it is here in Sydney's Bondi Beach.
According to Kathryn, the owner of Sparkle Cupcakery, Sydneysiders are far more sophisticated than New Yorkers. She would know. She used to run a bakery in downtown NYC, and was made to suffer straight chocolate and vanilla while dreaming of lychee and lavender. Sparkle's Sydney cupcakes have a very unique flavour.
The Paragon café, an example of Katoomba's past pandering to the upper class tourist, is the perfect remedy for today's time poor society. The lighting is warm, atmosphere cosy and the early 20th Century music and art deco furnishing make it one of the few remaining places in which you can step back in time with a cup of cocoa.
At first I thought the reason I liked this cafe so much was because I lived across the road...and everything tastes good when you're hungover.
But when they closed over Christmas and I was forced to try other places I realised that my attachment to Martini was more than just convenience.
Martini is undoubtedly the cool kid of King Street cafés, intelligently boasting the best airfreight collection of ‘zines I've seen outside of Kinokuniya.
What's with cafés these days? They're pimped out with the latest organic free-trade coffee, a million-dollar fit-out and the hippest of hipster-doofus waiters. That's if you can find a seat, which isn't in someone's armpit. I just wanna read the paper, score a fat bacon and egg roll and sip a flat white in relaxed surroundings.
If you've been craving organic baked goods and café nosh prepared by folks in peasant clothing that live communally and worship Jesus under his original Hebrew name of Yahshua -boy have I got the place for you.
Common Ground Bakery in Rozelle serves up tasty baked goods, salads, sandwiches, and pizza in the evening.
We know - we're cafe sluts. We go on and on about the newest, the latest and the greatest. But do you realize how addictive caffeine is? Jesus, if heroin was legal you can bet there'd be a shooting gallery on every corner and massive public discourse as to who's got the best stash in town.
On a random street in a non-descript suburb, every weekday morning business people, construction workos, hipsters, mums and assorted fruitcakes stream out the door single file for the best fix in town.
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