This is the downside of my bird's-eye-view coffee photos: the iPhone occasionally gets confused when it is horizontal and thinks it should switch to portrait. iPhoto didn't seem to want to rotate it either. It's time like this that I think I should be putting so much faith in so many iThings.
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The sausage rolls here are $9.00. I assume they're amazing. One day I'm going to find out. Mark my words.
Next time you're in the Carlton North area, check out a shop called Belki. It's a handful of doors up from Tre Bicchieri. Anyway, it's worth a look because of the window. It looks like someone has traced a circle into it. You know, like in Tom and Jerry cartoons, when someone wants to break in and they just draw a circle with a penknife a few times? That's what this window looks like. All it needs is a good sturdy Acme™ Suction Cup and that handbag's as good as stolen. It does make ...
If you go to Briscola, take note of the fire door between the room with the counter and the room with the tables. Yikes. I wonder if they ever shut it? It's the biggest thing in there. It's hard to appreciate without seeing it, but I couldn't stand back far enough to take a photo of the whole thing. I did, however, take note of the Hugh Masekela poster. I wish I could have been there for that photo shoot."Okay Hugh, that's great."Click."Look like you're really playing trumpet. Nice."Click."Okay that's really convincing, try to ...
Okay I'm heading off to Darwin tomorrow. I'm considering taking the Aeropress with me. That's a first. But I'll probably have to take a grinder too. That takes up most of the suitcase. Hmm. Is it worth it? If I successfully order hot water on the plane and make an Aeropress and take photos of the process, it will definitely be worth it.Oh, scrap that. We're flying QANTAS. No need for outside coffee there.In my opinion.Of all my opinions, I'm sure "QANTAS coffee rules!" is one shared by nobody else I ...
These cupcakes (not pictured) are dangerous. I just went for a small one today. But that didn't help. It just made me wish I'd had a big one.
Very orange today. Like our year 10 co-ordinator when she fell asleep in the tanning bed that one time and came to school looking like a mandarin.
I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.Sorry, that was a tad ambiguous. The emphasis could have gone either way:I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.or, at a stretch:I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.What I was going for was number 1. I think it might be because I like their cups.With that out of the way, let's move on to something else. I want to point out how hard it was to interrupt that ordered ...
The cupcakes here make me want to start a cupcake blog. But that can only lead me in two directions:Eating many cupcakes, orHaving a blog with not much content.So I'll just add the cupcake photos to the coffee blog for now. The ones at Sweet Source are spectacular. A very high icing-to-cake ratio, but worth it. I probably shouldn't have them too often though.
I showed you the elephant last time. It's worth noting that there is a giraffe (albeit an upside-down one) on the other side of the cup.Leaving aside for a moment that it's unlikely a giraffe would ever be hanging upside down from something, that's a nice looking cup.
Sweet Source again prove to make consistently great coffee, which I imagine to be a great accompaniment to all the incredible sweet things under and over the counter, for which this place has made its name (although I haven't tried them yet). Another fine example of the right things being done to Coffee Supreme beans, though I had to go and ask to find out about that. Curiously, they don't mention it anywhere. Not on the menu, not on the cups, not on the machine, not even on the sugar packets. A lot of other Supreme ...
It looks like we could have a new iPhone wallpaper contender.
Matt Preston's review of Tre Bicchieri informs me what Tre Bicchieri actually means. I could regurgitate it here, but you should probably read his review. Nice use of quotation marks around "baked eggs". He doesn't mention the coffee until the last sentence, which is funny, because I've been there about twenty times and only ever mentioned the coffee.It seems I've missed the point.It's a wine bar.
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. As far as I know, it's named in honor of Ned from Groundhog Day:(if you feel like you've seen other bloggers make that same connection, consider it a salute to the repetitive nature of the referenced material)I have no plans at all to actually use Bing, but I thought it might be vaguely interesting to check how easy it is to find my blog via Bing.It turns out it's pretty difficult. You need to search for "ryan on coffee" in quotes. Any less specific than that, and I'm not in the ...
Finally, I visit Seven Seeds. As I said a few days ago, the buzz has been building about this place both in the blogosphere, the cafesphere, and in real life. A whole lot of people were excited about this place opening. Surely it's a good sign that I recognised so many faces from other cafes around town amongst both patrons and staff.What's not to love about this place? The coffee plants, the roasting out the back, the sardine toasted sandwich, the really heavy dub they were listening to, and of course the indoor bike rack. ...
This is quickly becoming my favourite coffee in the village.(I meant Rathdowne Village. Sorry, maybe it's not famous enough to be abbreviated that far.)
JB was a little worried about the European Hot Chocolate he ordered. "It sounds more like a sex position!"
A flatty at Bicchi. A great afternoon for it too.I was a bit alarmed at how often JB was using the phrase "a known chode-fancier".It all started when he said he wrote a highly fictitious Wikipedia entry for his new band Joe Neptune, and promptly received an email from Wikipedia saying they knew none of it was true, and as such wouldn't stay on the site.That's hardly fair. Consider the following infomationlet:Before they settled on Joe Neptune, their other candidate for a band name was Jivon and Hardfunkel.It sounds made-up, doesn't it? But is it? It ...
I have a confession.I have no idea how to pronounce pide, or pidé, as it is sometimes called.Whenever I order it, I either ignore it altogether ("Can I get the salami and pumpkin?"), refuse to even attempt it ("...toasted...bullshit...thing?") or make it rhyme with any of the following:tidepie dayd-dayg'dayhidHeidigiddyI can usually figure out which of those are definitely wrong, but I'm never sure which of the remaining ones sounds more correct. I also get the feeling that different cafés prefer different pronunciations. Tre Bicchieri are firmly in the "d-day" camp, as I found out today.
Two ferns for the price of one. Nice.
