Cafe Mount St, North Sydney

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Barista

I’ve been visiting a café in North Sydney a lot recently and grabbing a take-away coffee (or coffee-to-go), and on Tuesday I met up with Tony Hollingsworth in the chill of the morning.

We sat outside in the brisk wintry morning’s air and it was lovley to also meet JJ for the first time, a software developer.

I had contacted Tony to find out about the North Sydney Coffee Mornings as I wasn’t able to make it to my usual venue in Leichhardt for the Wednesday Inner West Sydney Coffee Morning – on Twitter as #wscm

It’s a funny story about how I got to find out this Nth Sydney meeting was in this particular cafe. One day last week I grabbed my “Sydney Coffee Morning” keep cup and popped it in my briefcase on my way to see a client.

When I got to the cafe and pulled it out, the Barista commented that I wasn’t the first one to bring this same coffee cup to his cafe. I was intrigued and found out it was Tony Hollingsworth who hosted these meetings. I thought this was a pretty cool ’6 degrees of separation’ story :-)

In fact I first found out about the Leichhardt group when I was searching online locally and came across TheLatteGuy.com – Tony Cosetino. I met up with Tony C in Leichhardt back in January, and have been part of the group ever since.

So the cafe – whose name escapes me (and who isn’t on Google Maps – yikes!) – is on Mount Street, south-side corner of Little Arthur Street in North Sydney.

They have toasted Turkish bread (with vegemite etc) and latte for the great price of $4.70. The staff are friendly and the coffee’s great.

If you get a chance, pop in to say hello :-)

Cheers
Teena

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Catherine & Piper Cafe Lilyfield

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Barista

Love your coffeeI recently came across the Catherine & Piper Cafe in Lilyfield, and today was my 2nd visit.

I’d been telling Michelle about the Croque Monsieur, and she was eager to meet me there and check it out.

The Croque Monsieur arrives all alone on a large white plate, pierced through the heart with a green pimento olive on a long bamboo skewer.

First time I saw it, I thought, “Gee, is that it? Not much to eat …”

… and then I tasted it, and was so surprised – it tasted fantastic! A French Croque Monsieur traditionally has the cheese grilled on the outside – this has the cheese on the inside – but don’t let that fool you. There’s delicious ham inside, with a hint of mustard blended beautifully with the rich and yummy emmenthal cheese. No salad or frippery, but if you’re just looking for a yummy sandwish, this is delish.

Of course the next test is the coffee – so when the latte arrived, I gently breathed in the aroma and it smelled delicious. I slowly sipped – and got a shock of bitter crema – oh no! I tried another sip, and this time I tasted the creamy latte and all was right with the world.

A good reminder to not be put off on the first taste – perhaps it’s something you had just eaten beforehand. Give it a second chance, and it may turn out to be something truly delish.

Ahhh … two great sensations in the one cafe :-) We chatted for three hours, talked about our website projects, our individual plans to create online products for our sites,how we’re going to go about that, and even came up with some great solutions :-)

A perfect end-of-winter day in Sydney’s inner west.

Have a great week!
Teena

PS – here’s the map 360 Catherine St, Lilyfield – Sydney’s inner west:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=catherine+and+piper+cafe,+360+catherine+st,+lilyfield+nsw&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.805654,64.863281&ie=UTF8&hq=catherine+and+piper+cafe,&hnear=360+Catherine+St,+Lilyfield+New+South+Wales+2040,+Australia&ll=-33.876324,151.164519&spn=0.007767,0.016243&z=16

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