cafe: The Hardware Store, Scarborough
Definitely hipster ! with the hardware theme applied as various tools attached to brick walls with the plaster scraped off. One area has plaster removed to leave the shape of an exposed brick Australia. Very clever :-)
We share a sticky sweet slice, caramel with a claim of peanut paste. Caramel... salted ? Interesting, very nice, not necessarily to be repeated. One slice is plenty for two of us.
Single source coffee is available, I'm not sure if all coffee is that single source. Good coffee anyway.
The customers really do make us feel out of place... Young, hip. Tradies, office workers. Just... all giving a hip impression. The two women next to us talk in a style which -- without hearing clear words -- makes me think, empty headed, self centred, unthinking. I hope I'm wrong, it's just an impression :-)
Outside the shop... is even more hip. Saturday morning, cars & enormous 4WDs lining up for the one or two parking spots. (We park out back -- plenty of spots but only one is vacant.) People walking by are -- I notice the women -- well dressed, big breasted, in an important hurry. There is no feeling of casual non-work day here. Perhaps it is quieter mid-week.
There are half a dozen seats free when we arrive, two dozen free as we leave. It is a busy time but service is not slow. With smiles.
Rated 2 out of 3: we enjoy the experience but not enough to go out of our way to return.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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