It was a Body Attack class that brought me to Darling Street Espresso. A voucher acquired as a lucky door prize was the only thing that alerted me to the presence of this little corner cafe (on the corner of Darling St) next to Moonee Ponds West Primary School. In actual fact, the cafe isn’t […] Read more…
It is pretty easy to miss Phat Milk, perched on a busy intersection of a fairly daggy part of Mount Alexander road. Similarly, the name had me conjuring images of some kind of milk bar or convenience store. I have walked past the cafe at full speed enroute to Ted’s favourite frisbee arena (aka the […] Read more…
Sweet Evelyn is one of the most darling names for a cafe I have ever heard, which made it easy to remember when suggesting a local spot to meet a dear friend for a long overdue brunch. Its location in a suburban part of Brunswick meant that on an (admittedly rather chilly) Sunday morning we […] Read more…
You only have to head over to my ‘About Me’ page, the first thing I wrote when I created this blog, to see how much I love my dog. Ted is pretty much the centre of our universe (and our bed). So when we saw a cafe emerging nearby and spotted the owner working on his […] Read more…
I love a quirky name association so when I heard that a cafe called Mr Ed had opened on Racecourse Road (‘A horse is a horse of course of course”) I had a little chuckle and vowed to stop by sometime. As is my way, this didn’t happen for the longest time. I’d been watching […] Read more…