Vespa Pizza
Step into Vespa and you'll almost believe that you're actually in Italy, it's a warm summers night and it's 1960. This pizza joint goes above and beyond the cheese in more ways that one. Firstly the pizza are anything but regular: cinnamon, roast butternut pumpkin with dried chilli, sage and fetta - all living in harmony together on one pizza base.
Fresh to Go
It's hard to find a good ol' fashioned sandwich fix. Trendy cafes charge you a bloomin' arm and leg just for a bit of ham and cheese, sure they have the fancy salad garnish - but it's hardly worth being the equivalent to the price of a cocktail - perhaps a liquid lunch isn't such a bad idea!?
If you can't get by without your daily sanga, then we've found a little sandwich heaven right in the heart of the valley where you can get any kind of sandwich combination you can think of.
Bulimba Bakery
More than just your average bakery, the Bulimba Bakery offers speciality breads, deluxe sweet treats, gourmet sandwiches, Di Bella coffee and organic softdrinks. Yep, it's all pumpkin sourdough this and French macaroon that. The best cupcakes are the old-school, simply-iced butter cake style - however there are also the coma-inducing, whole candy-store stuck on top ones for a very special treat.
Sugar 'n Spice Cafe
As we know, the streets in the CBD are named after royalty. From Sugar 'n Spice's window, you can see down busy Adelaide Street (named after Queen Adelaide). Born in 1792, Adelaide was pretty cool; before she married King William... he was known throughout the kingdom as a bit of a douche bag. Adelaide smartened him up: he gave up the drink, swore less and became more sophisticated and tactful.
The Cupcake Parlour
What do James Brown, Lil Miss Piggy, Madam Butterfly and a green apple have in common? They are all cupcakes! … well at Cupcake Parlour they are. This house of fluff and cream transforms almost anyone/thing into buttery delectable morsels of whipped air and sugar – add some fine chocolate, marachino cherries, fairy floss or bubblegum and you’ve got every cupcake lovers dream all in one glassed cabinet.
El Torito
El Torito is so charming it makes the sun itself smile. When just walking along Boundary Street, you wouldn't even realise it was a restaurant - (if not for the chalk board proclaiming it's lunch specials).
It was these very lunch specials that drew me in... “$9.95 for a burrito/chimichanga/enchilada and a fanta/coke/diet coke/sprite” I said, “That's pee-pants sick.
The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab
Has the world gone foodie-mad? Everyone wants to be the next Jamie Oliver/Nigella Lawson or Gordon ‘the f word’ Ramsey (p.s Ramsey you’re not hot and you need to wash your mouth out). If you do get-off on Ramsey and the rest of them - then this is the movie for you, you cockney loving swine.
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