Lunch On Diagonal

$ 11 big breakfast, Boom! Nice friendly staff. Not a very big menu but $ 11 for a café style breakfast is a winner. Very good bacon.

Anyone who reads my reviews would know there is a distinct lack of coffee shops around this area … some snack bars have popped up which serve coffee, but they don’t have that ‘café’ sort of atmosphere.
Imagine my excitement when I saw a ‘café open soon’ sign on the corner building in this block of shops o Diagonal Road … I wondered whether it would be a granny-​ish tea rooms style place, or a trendy upmarket café. Well, it’s kind of a combination of both, which is probably perfect for this sort of area.
I visited the second day after it opened, and it was nearly full — lots of elderly folk, which makes sense in the Warradale area. The café is quite modern, with the fitout very simple in white with a red and black menu board, and a gorgeous red coffee machine. The staff are very friendly older people — I ordered a soy latte (yay, they had soy milk!), and though I had to wait a while (since the guy was still learning to use the machine), it was delicious! I get the feeling that this is a new venture for these owners, and it’s great to see people this age taking on a new business with enthusiasm!
Overall, this is definitely a place I will be visiting again … next time I’ll test out a long black ;)