cafe: The Little Pantry / Shenton Park / 25aug18
This place is absolutely buzzing ! Busy, busy, busy, we're lucky to find seats. Busy but still friendly.
There's a "garden" area out the back, just as crowded. The counter is in the front section, kitchen out back on the other side to the "garden". Which does mean that staff have a long journey from the kitchen, round the counter & its customers, back to serve in the garden. Staff navigate the narrow path with the ease of experience.
Okay, this café is hipster. (Still not entirely sure what that means. But happy to use the description to mean whatever I understand it to mean. And thus does language grow and change.) A different shade of hipster.
There is no half-finished look, the Pantry is well established. Walls painted, shelves adorned with small potted plants, paintings on the walls. Even the pressed metal ceiling is clean & painted.
There is also a wide range of food available... by which I mean, plenty of cakes. (We are here for cake. There is savoury food but we are not looking.) Many are familiar cakes but not from "the same old factory". A few are less common: we try the baked cheesecake. And it is delicious.
Baked cheesecake is easy to over-cook, this one is just right. Creamy texture, creamy taste.
Staff are almost running but we don't wait very long. Not so long that we get bored watching the crowd. Amazingly -- staff all manage to smile -- and seem to mean it. I wonder (with no real basis) is this a friendly family-run café ?
We are there for coffee & cake, others are eating or still getting brunch. By the time we leave, there are several empty tables. Perhaps the brunch crowd are leaving and the lunch crowd are yet to arrive, it's that time of day.
On the down side: there is a slight smell. We are near the entry to the kitchen, I would say a smell of fish. Fresh fish, nothing objectionable. But my clothes have a slight food smell when we leave. Again, not objectionable, just that I prefer fresh air :-)
Overall rating: 3/3. A place we would go just because we like it.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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