I finally went to the Rosebery café that kept turning up on my feed. It’s a Japanese-style café, and the cakes are honestly really good without being too sweet, which is good news for matcha lovers. There are always plenty of people in the shop, and there was a queue. You can also see lots […]
Dora’s Table Carlton Reviews
Carlton has another Japanese café worth bookmarking. Dora’s Table used to be Nijuusan, the shaved-ice shop, and it’s now taken over by Dora. The first bite of the taro roll cake got me. The sponge is incredibly soft, and it’s packed with taro cream, light but dense. It isn’t one of those Swiss rolls where […]
Shibusawa Bakery Brisbane – Japanese Croissants, Matcha and Pesto Danish
Found a Japanese bakery in the city. I’ve recommended croissant shops before, and people keep telling me they’re too sweet or too oily. Shibusawa is lower in sugar and oil, so it suits anyone who likes a lighter flavour. It’s already one of my favourite breakfast stops. Shibusawa is on the ground floor of the […]
Soufflé Japancakes Greenslopes Review – Brisbane Southside’s Fluffy Japanese Pancakes
I’d known about this place for ages and just never got round to going, and now that I’ve been I should have gone so much earlier, it was so good! It’s Soufflé Japancakes in Greenslopes, tucked away on the Brisbane southside, and the Japanese soufflé pancakes there are made to order and wobble when they […]
Kimino Cafe Ashgrove Reviews
Rainy Sunday, so I took a book to Kimino in Ashgrove. It’s a Japanese cafe. The space isn’t big, but the view out is wide. Most people get sent here for the matcha, and I was no different. White sign out the front with a big blue dot on it and KIMINO in black letters. […]
Snug Coorparoo Reviews
It was a sunny Saturday, and we finally went to a café I’d had bookmarked for a long time. Snug sits in a quiet residential pocket of Coorparoo, and the little shop is beautifully put together. The weekend crowd was huge, and it felt like the most popular place in Coorparoo. We got there at […]
Attakai Japanese Cafe Carlton Reviews
Japanese Matcha and Sando Cafe Near the University of Melbourne A few of us from work were scouting for somewhere to eat near Melbourne Uni and ended up picking Attakai at random, purely because the penguin logo was so cute! It’s a Japanese cafe on Bouverie Street in Carlton, all matcha and sandos, and the […]
OMO Cafe Melbourne CBD
Wandering around a random laneway in the city and stumbled onto this place tucked underneath the WSP building. Straight onto my regular list after one visit. Small, easy-to-miss entrance, the kind of door you’d walk right past if you weren’t looking. Push it open and everything goes quiet. Retro solid wood mixed with industrial concrete […]
Nos. Bakehouse & Cafe Dutton Park Reviews
Our friends kept recommending this place so many times we finally gave in and went. It’s tucked on a street that isn’t exactly a hot strip, nothing around it screaming “popular brunch spot,” so the half hour wait for a table caught us off guard a bit. Small menu, but every single dish on it […]
Hinoya Curry Melbourne Review – Tokyo’s Kanda Curry Grand Prix Winner Opens in the CBD
Hinoya Curry has finally opened in Melbourne and I was so keen to get in there! It’s a curry chain from Tokyo that won the Kanda Curry Grand Prix in 2013, it has over 100 stores, mostly in Japan, and plenty of people plan a trip to Japan just to eat at it. I go […]