Brood Box
Editorial
The mavens of Melbourne hospitality are clearly bored with buildings. Increasingly, they shun an old-fashioned thing like architecture and open bars, cafes and boutiques in shipping containers, garages and toilet blocks. Okay. So we made that last one up. But, here's five dollars down to bet that the hot new thing called “Flush” will inhabit an old urinal and serve terrine pressed into the shape of a disinfectant. Then, we can all legitimately say that we have attended the opening of a toilet.
Until then, we'll just have to content ourselves with drinking coffee in a mobile home. Here, the eminently potable Sensory Lab Champion Blend is treated with respect and patience by a cheery young staff.
As Brood Box is a café inside a caravan inside an art gallery, you might reasonably expect its employees to be nob-ends. They are, however, friendly and competent and far more interested in providing customer satisfaction and good coffee than flouncing about being The Cool Guy In The Caravan Café.
Here, the quirk actually works. The folk are very happy to explain their siphon-filter coffee method and, despite being fluent in the language of caffeine, they will not be vile if you happen to mispronounce “ristretto”.
There's no brooding, here. Just a fun and flavoursome cup.
SM King, November 2010
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