Coffee / Zig Zag Cafe, Kalamunda

Coffee / Zig Zag Cafe, Kalamunda

April 2014

Rating 9: really, really good

We were in The Hills for a run, a geocache and lunch. Easter Sunday, so all was very quiet...

Except for Jorgensen Park, where plenty of people were enjoying the beautiful weather and plenty of dogs were just enjoying. Not crowded in the park, just pleasantly peopled with plenty of space in between.

Jorgensen Park was, as ever, confusing. With the overgrown greens and the tracks wandering through the rough, the old golf course is a maze. I took the easy route and followed the Bibbulmun Track.

The Bibb has been upgraded since our last visit, with gravel-and-plank steps down the side of the first hill. I jogged down, rested, jogged more slowly up again. "Quick return from Albany?" asked the young woman whom I had passed in both directions.

Geocaching was less successful. One where locals had built a cubby, the last log was a dnf, I didn't even bother to look. Another supposed to be near a log near some rocks, too many logs, too many scratchy bushes, I gave it five minutes then gave it up. The third was well placed and still there -- success at last !

And then to lunch, in nearby Kalamunda.

We circle the shopping centre and spotted one closed cafe and one open but crowded. Then we found the Zig Zag Cafe.

Zig Zag is part of the Kalamunda Visitor Centre. Or part of their precinct, though that's a rather pretentious word for a very pleasant area. The Centre itself was open, a Museum was closed, I didn't register what the other buildings were. All we wanted was the cafe.

A small, pleasant, modern building. Open to the fine weather, with the ability to open even more. A hand written sign that the cafe would close at noon... This was, after all, Easter Sunday !

Rather than push our luck -- with the cafe due to close in twenty minutes -- we ordered a very light lunch: muffin, fruit toast, coffee.

The muffin was spinach and feta with just a hint of cayenne. Nicely warmed, a little dry, it needed the pat of butter. Delicious ! The toast was fruity, lightly toasted, butter went well but was not essential. Coffee was served in a generous-sized cup.

There were, perhaps, a dozen other customers in the cafe. Two of them we had seen before: we had driven past them as they rode a tandem bicycle up the hill... An excellent outing, we thought, to ride up the hill, eat lunch at the Zig Zag Cafe then ride home again. Excellent except for the riding, anyway.

We walked back to our car and drive on, to Zanthorrea Nursery.

All we had eaten was muffin and toast. All we had drunk was coffee. We were there in beautiful weather, on a very quiet and peaceful day. That said:

We enjoyed our lunch at the Zig Zag Cafe in Kalamunda. We ate food with standard names but better than average quality... It may even have been hand-made for the cafe.

Highly recommended !

And the waiter can't help it if he reminded us of Larry from the Three Stooges.

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