Keyword results: Cafe
Café Vue at Heide
When you go to Heide you look at things but you seem to feel them too. It has this ethereal quality that extends right down from the quaint Heide 1 cottage at the top of the hill, through the sculpture gardens, into the modern gallery buildings and ends when you put the Aesop moisturiser on your hands in the bathroom.
Windsor Deli
Ever craved delicious foodstuffs but been afraid to leave the house for fear of engaging with the general population? I have. People can be scary.
But not at Windsor Deli. It's a two minute walk from Chapel Street, but you wouldn't know it. Owned by Alan and Katrina, and frequented by a diverse and unpretentious crowd, this place is great if you want to avoid socially awkward situations.
Lawson Grove Shop
With the rise of the city 7-11 and the equally ubiquitous suburban supermarket, sadly so too comes the demise of the humble milk bar. The stroll down to the corner shop for a litre of milk and a newspaper has become a longer walk to Safeway and a packet of Tim Tams because they were 60c off.
Enter the Lawson Grove Shop.
Liaison
Once I was playing a game of Canasta in the shade of The Melbourne Club's gigantic Plane trees. Whereas I would normally face-off against my Geelong Grammar cronies, my playing partner on this particular day was Kanye West.
The sun sure was fierce but not half as fierce as Mr West, who had me licked within two shakes of a dry martini.
CIBI
It doesn't matter that CIBI is at the sneaker-warehouse end of Smith Street, or that it's hidden in a backstreet between overgrown houses and factories. This spacious café/design-nerd paradise could be poking out from any industrial suburb and it'd still be poking out with pride.
CIBI is a big space, split into two areas.
A Minor Place
You can generally trust a café with a dog, or a number of dogs, out the front. These are the kind of dogs that would grow a beard if they weren't already covered in hair. The kind of dogs that would play a guitar and sing like Will Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince' Billy after whose song A Minor Place is named.
Mixed Business
Mixed Business is both a café and a convalescent home. You wander in feeling a bit fragile, even wary of spending a hungover Saturday morning in a fledgling café.
But fear not - you are soon taken under the care of a remarkable waitress who somehow combines Greek yiayia, old-school English nurse and hospitality hottie into one soothing package.
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