Handsome Steve's House of Refreshment
What:
Handsome Steve's House of Refreshment
Where:
Lvl 1, Abbotsford Convent, St Helliers St, Abbotsford (directions here)
When:
Open in accordance with Handsome Steve's dictatorial whim. But usually around midday until around 9pm.
Handsome Steve is a hospitality revolutionary. Not in any namby-pamby Nike-loving Che Guevara kind of way. Steve is iconic, sure - his fearsome bowtie is more than a match for Che's ponsy beret. No, HS is the real deal. Hospitality's Great Dictator - its Josef Stalin. The House of Refreshment is totalitarian. Soy milk, skinny milk, tea, light beer - these things have been done away with. Sent to the gulag for re-education. Best not ask after the fate of Comrade Decaf either.
From his first floor fortress in the Abbotsford Convent, Steve and his army of apparatchiks have returned the art of eating and drinking to Year Zero. The pegboard menu is a shining manifesto. Putting the pure back in purge it offers a few essentials done well, in the old manner.
Many of us like it this way. We men and women of simple taste. Rallying behind our great leader, we revel in the security of knowing that our beer will be Carlton Draught and that after a long day toiling in the field we can feast upon a ham and cheese (or ham or cheese) sandwich. Comrades rejoice, the five year plan has been achieved in four!
Venue: Café
Meal: Lunch
Keywords: simple, Abbotsford
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