cafe: Sondrea Espresso / Osborne Park
We had parked for the Post Office. Walked past Sondrea and decided that we needed coffee. And cake...
I couldn't resist a Melting Moment, with as much filling as biscuit. Sweet crumbly delicious biscuit, sweet filling with a tang of lemon. One is enough for a sugar rush -- and well worth it. Delicious :-) The coffee is also good.
But is this café "hipster"? No, not really. It's better.
Service is good, friendly, efficient. Yet there is no trace of the hard-wired rush of a true hipster café. Staff are friendly, smiling -- and not just when facing a customer. The waitress moves quickly but with no sense of urgency... Funny, I've not noticed the urgency in hipster cafes but the lack of it is obvious here.
There is a table of a dozen or so family & friends, plus a couple of other customers. Busy but not crowded. A family atmosphere, both customers and staff. Observation and a guess place three of four staff in the one family. Almost a country café in the city.
Lots of pre-made rolls and bowls. They look good. So many that I guess that the café gets a lot of lunch-time business. Perhaps it is the local café for people who work in the area. It's hard to imagine much passing traffic pulling in to the limited close-by parking.
We often pass by, this is the first time we have actually stopped in this shopping strip. Really, we're not likely to stop again. But -- this being my own rating system -- I rate Sondrea at three out of three. Good enough to draw me back again. Even if I never actually get there.
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22jan19: We are shopping across the road and decide that it is worth another visit to Sondrea. Again, coffees and cake, this time a Portuguese Tart. Good coffee. Good cake. Still the friendly family feel of a very pleasant café. Yes, worth a repeat visit :-)
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22jan19: We are shopping across the road and decide that it is worth another visit to Sondrea. Again, coffees and cake, this time a Portuguese Tart. Good coffee. Good cake. Still the friendly family feel of a very pleasant café. Yes, worth a repeat visit :-)
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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