12jan19 café: Lot Six Zero / Innaloo
Coffee & cake, good. Hipster cred, good but showing signs of mass market commercialisation. Service, friendly and efficient. Food, name a trendy food and it is there.
I will score this as three out of three, meaning, we enjoyed the visit and it may become a regular. That's not because it's any better than any other hipster café. It's just convenient -- for us -- to drive there and back. And parking is really easy.
This building has -- probably -- always been a café (or restaurant), so no hipster credit for being repurposed. The decorations, however, guarantee the hipster description. The best of all are the old doors, standing in a row to provide a visual screen between customers and entrance to the toilets.
Tables, wall shelves, coffee-bag seat covers, all scream … factory-produced... hipster. The wall mural is good. Is it authentic? I'd like to see inside another of the four LSZ cafes. The mural image is printed on the paper serviettes, good. If it is also reproduced on other walls, not good.
The recycled paper serviettes are labelled, "Saving the world one napkin at a time." That's good except that in Australia these are serviettes, not napkins. The sugar sachets are by the coffee supplier, glossy paper, probably not recyclable. Sugar and serviettes shout "commercial enterprise" rather than ecological hipster. Nice try -- but suspicious motivation.
Oh, and noisy... this place needs softer wall coverings. We enjoyed our coffee. The peanut slice was delicious. Yet it was a relief to get out to the relatively quiet street sounds of Scarborough Beach Road.
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07sep19 (approx): We arrive as they are closing. Coffee & cake outside, as takeaways but the seats are still not packed away. Just us and two or three other couples... peaceful. More relaxing -- more enjoyable -- than our previous visit. Yes, still on our "3 out of 3" list.
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07sep19 (approx): We arrive as they are closing. Coffee & cake outside, as takeaways but the seats are still not packed away. Just us and two or three other couples... peaceful. More relaxing -- more enjoyable -- than our previous visit. Yes, still on our "3 out of 3" list.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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