Cafe Scene

Whiplash Café

Whiplash Café

Since launching Whiplash Café in June 2022, Jordan Faulker has built his brand at lightning pace. After more than a decade’s worth of hospitality experience, the café founder has made his foray into business ownership, using his industry insights and experience to convert an old milk bar into a café. Read More
Alberta’s

Alberta’s

Kirsty Marchant and Ben Ing ­– the former Gardener and Head Chef at Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen – have just begun a new project in the coastal Western Australian town of Busselton. Read More
Rumours Specialty Coffee

Rumours Specialty Coffee

Rumours Specialty Coffee opened in May 2022, and has quickly established itself as one of Auckland CBD’s distinguished places to experience a variety of curated specialty coffee offerings. Read More
Revival Cafe

Revival Cafe

Ben Hart, the face behind Revival Cafe, is a people person, a trait which is strongly reflected in the “vibrant” venue he and his team have built for the residents of Blakeview, a growing suburb with many young families located between Adelaide’s CBD and the Barossa Valley. Read More
Paddington Social

Paddington Social

Chefs Gibb Mookachonpan, Tyler Sargent and Alex Senee co-own Paddington Social, and the Queensland-based venue is characterised by a fusion of their culinary talents. Read More
Dumbo

Dumbo

In 2016, an old vacant milk bar in West Footscray was revived as Dumbo, a bustling brunch and specialty coffee space. Read More
Mr.H Café and Bar

Mr.H Café and Bar

Five years ago, Herry Chung saw an opportunity to bring something new to the charming shopping and dining area of Balmain, one of Sydney’s vibrant harbourside suburbs. Read More
Coffee Culture

Coffee Culture

Chris Houston started Coffee Culture 26 years ago. It operated as one little coffee shop in the sleepy seaside village of Sumner in Christchurch, with a roaster inside the café so that guests could embrace the whole coffee experience. Read More
Hibernia Café

Hibernia Café

The sandstone, heritage-listed Magill Institute building has been the heart of the Magill Village community for almost two centuries. Its Victorian-era arches have long framed a locus of culture, conversation, and celebration. The building operated as a town hall, a presentation hall, then later a cinema. Now, the Magill Institute has been renovated and repurposed to host Hibernia Café, a venue which continues to honour the building’s traditional role as a meeting place and community centre in the Adelaide foothills. Read More
Meelup Farmhouse

Meelup Farmhouse

Springing to life at the beginning of 2020 in a burst of light tones and refined seaside accents is Meelup Farmhouse, a sprawling jewel on the southwest coast of Western Australia. Marketing Manager Anneliese Hvalgaard explains the vision of the Farmhouse restaurant and its surrounding grounds as “harnessing what is glorious about the outdoor-living aspect of the southwest and creating an oasis within the Meelup Regional Park”. Read More