The café and store stocks chef-quality local produce and deli items, kitchenware and cookbooks, as well as a small range of hand-picked items from overseas. Diners can chat over coffee while feasting on delicious sweet and savoury treats.
What are some of your favourite gifts in store?
JUNO Guilda packs – Perello Olives, Olasagasti anchovies and Piparras pepper and skewers with Q Code on history and how to make these drinks accessories. Hampers, combining Japanese ceramics with food, JUNO tea towels and totes to package your gifts. Our summer-style sardine cap.
What are three products that can transform a festive meal?
Champagne, Champagne, Champagne. Panettone with great Little Marionette coffee for breakfast, Yurrita white anchovy plate with shredded lemon rind and caper berries … the perfect plate for festive meals.
Favourite fresh produce of the season, and how do you love to use them?
Tomatoes, heirloom of course, Vannella buffalo mozzarella salad with peas, mint and sliced radish dressed with Cutrera Sicilian Extra Virgin Oil and Sopraffino pinot grigio white wine vinegar. Pure heaven.
What’s new on the menu for summer?
Affogato and moccagato Gelista vanilla or chocolate gelato, espresso with beautiful vintage teaspoons.
How do you celebrate the festive season? Do you have any traditions or favourite meals?
It usually starts with a swim with my sons at Clovelly then family lunch. This year will be different as my oldest son is living in Cairns playing in the NBL. So we are heading up and plan to have a seafood feast: mud crabs, prawns and local fish. So I will be heading to Preston’s Seafood as soon as I get off the plane.
Three products that should always be kept in the pantry over summer?
Katie Swift’s cordials, delicious with sparkling water or used to create cocktails. Ugly Food Crunchy Chilli Oil: a great accompaniment with just about anything. Great spices and spice mixes like Malouf Ras al Hanout, to create beautiful Middle Eastern salads with grilled fish and meat.
Sweet treats in the café that are always a crowd-pleaser?
My lemon currant tea biscuits with really lemony icing – I can’t not make them. Coffee walnut pound cake and blueberry lemon olive oil cake by the slice.
