café: Mary St Bakery, City Beach
Definitely not hipster. This is a flash café for a rich suburb. Where a true hipster café would have walls decorated with recycled timber fittings, this café has a feature wood wall. Nice, shiny, definitely un-hip.
The staff -- just two, it's late in the day -- are friendly, busy, somewhat distracted. We can't see tatts nor manbuns... though we agree that the man's *attitude* says, hipster. Casual, friendly, I'm one of you, man.
Why "Mary Street"? There are five of them, none on a Mary St. Just -- apparently -- a marketing name for a growing chain. Pity, I prefer an individual café with its unique style. Oh well.
This café is nice. When we're there, it's peaceful, we have a choice of seats. Just as well, we don't really like the high-stool seats. We're sitting on the broad verandah -- a feature of the newly rebuilt shopping centre.
It's taken a while to write this review... I can no longer remember what we ate, it must have been okay. I do remember that we bought a loaf of white bread -- which turned out to be very nice.
So it's a nice place with very convenient parking. And an excellent -- upmarket -- IGA next door. We won't go out of our way to visit, we will visit again if we are already close by. Two out of three.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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