cafe: Architects & Heroes / Subiaco / 11aug18
Our second hipster café ! And a better understanding of what makes a "hipster" café...
First: no convenient parking. Second: open early, closes mid-afternoon. Third: not much choice of sweet & sticky cakes. So a "hipster" café targets people who travel by share-car to do healthy brunch.
Okay, that's just first (or second) impressions :-) Have you ever heard of the game called Eleusis ? I'm using the principles of Eleusis to build an understanding of "hipster café".
A&H also satisfies another hipster criteria: a small area, probably repurposed, partly renovated. The back section was clearly a separate room (separating wall now removed) and the walls have not been repainted. Though there are two posters on food & coffee flavours which are too complicated for me to fully read.
We sit at the back -- because the tables are at table height. The front section tables are higher and the seats are high stools. Interesting, but not a distinguishing "hipster" feature. Our own seats are lower but still stools: no back. Comfortable enough, though, for sipping coffee with elbows resting on the table.
Coffee is at a good -- drinkable -- temperature. Flavour is fine, I'm no connoisseur. Food choice -- for our "coffee & cake" -- is limited.
There are lunch rolls -- bagels. Fine if you like bagels. We want "cake". There's a good selection of muffins. I don't look closely but they seem smallish, probably a good thing. For "cake" the choice is... three or four types of "protein ball". (Straining the memory: there may have been something sweet & possibly sticky at the far end.) I choose the protein ball covered in coconut.
The coconut ball is a bit plain, stodgy & filling towards the end. Suits what I want today but does not convince me to try "protein balls" again. (I think it is a well-known local brand.) Just not my kind of snack. But satisfactory.
The service is efficient and cheerful.
Overall rating is 2/3: we would be happy to go again but would not go out of our way to go again.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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