Kinfolk has become my “go-to” café when I’m looking for a lunch that’s just a little out of the ordinary.
Much of the magic, as is so often the case, can be found in the personality of Liaison’s operators: Danny Colls, who has infinite charm and could converse fluently under wet cement, and his partner, the stylish and very striking Siany McLaine.
For 10 days only, Mark Free from Brother Baba Budan is curating the Black Coffee Popup Shop at the Somewhere Gallery on Little Collins.
Queen Victoria Market – Melbourne’s top tourist attraction, apparently – is all things to some people. The fruit and veg are cheap, but not always good. Same goes for the meat and fish.
A strange and interesting cavernous space that felt like a house party I just happened to wander in to, not knowing any of the guests but really enjoying myself regardless…. That’s what I got from 1000 £ Bend.
Really, here in Melbourne, we can make a cafe out of anything. Give us a couple of milk crates and a square metre of footpath and we’ll make a cafe out of it. Give us an old switchboard cupboard and we’ll make a cafe out of it. Give us a department store doorway – we’ll make a cafe out of it.
There was a little Melbourne mule who lived down a lane. It ate cheap, delicious food and it rode a bike and was thus quite an impressive Little Mule.
Brother Baba Budan’s multitudinous fans know one thing for sure; the coffee here is Jackson Pollock’s bollocks. Weekdays are often full of 9-to-5ers enjoying some of the Brother’s amazing coffee goodness under a perplexing canopy of hanging wooden chairs.
My day job is in the city, so I’m always on the lookout for decent cafes a short walk from the office.
I’d like to be able to tell you that I stumbled across Brood Box by combing the city’s laneways, but the truth of the matter is that I had my mind set on a coffee at Brother Baba Budan, when my friend Ross convinced me to go here instead.