café: Hylin / West Leederville / 06sep18
We've been told that identifying features of a "hipster" café include unusual hair styles and -- essentially -- tattoos. By those standards, Hylin is not really hipster. However...
It is crowded. (Though not enough that we should have booked ahead. And I suspect that booking ahead would simply destroy our own hipster cred.) Walls are painted brick. The café does seem to have started as something else. (Despite being "a new architecturally designed café".) It is in an area where parking is at a premium. (Though when we get there, it seems that only the "main" road is short on parking space.)
And there is a choice of coffee beans. We choose Colombian and it's good coffee. Not that we can tell one coffee from another. (Though I believe that I can distinguish "good" from "bad" -- according to my own preferences, anyway.)
In a break from tradition -- we eat lunch ! (Usually we are after just coffee & cake.) Many of the offerings are -- by our standards -- "different". (What sort of place have you taken us to ?! ask our friends.) A few odd spices and flavours, some that we have heard of but not yet tasted. (A quick smart phone search: What is chipotle ? Is it very hot ?)
There are enough recognisable choices to satisfy. Poached eggs, chipotle sauce, mixed green leaves, are in a lot of the offerings. I choose eggs, green leaves, no chipotle -- with croquettes. Which are light and tasty, not over-tasty. It comes with a rather nice mayonnaise.
We all enjoy our meals. There are "exotic" choices but our own choices taste good to our traditional palates. I rate this café 3 out of 3: we would go again, not just "to review" but because we enjoyed our meals.
We didn't look for cakes. Coffee & cake may require a separate visit. And perhaps a separate review and rating.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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