Dudley Street Espresso

Dudly Street Espresso

494 Ipswich Rd.

Cnr Dudley St and Ipwich Rds, Annerley.

As I wandered along Ipswich road blindly looking for a place to get my morning hit of caffeine (I wasn't staggering home or anything untoward,my pilates studio is around the corner) - I stumbled upon the delightful Dudly Street Cafe, Espresso and Collectables. Half cafe, half funky op shop. A big long table takes up the front of the shop filled with regular caffeine junkies all getting their fill.

once again greeted by two big smiling dials of the two owners - I love a big smile to greet. Everyone should get onto that!

I ordered a toasted turkey turkish ($7.5)and a cup of their finest ($3.5). Giancarlo from Grinders is their bean of choice, not my favorite but its ok when made well. My turkey turkish was good too- I did want the buffalo mozzerella, tomato & basil sandwich ($5.5)but there were none left. A nice selection of the cafe regular assortment was available and a few salads ($8)

A nice selection of cakes and danishes are available - they all looked a bit to perfect to be churned out of an oven on site but they looked quite nice - choc tart thingy, an orange cakey one. I didn't indulge so can not give comment on taste. I will go back so will go nuts then.

The curios and collectables were interesting; world globes (you know the one you had as a kid and wondered why australia didn't fall off the bottom of the world!), clocks, boxes, tables, signs, pictures, blackboards - all very cool collectables.

Apparently the boys do a mean white hot chocolate so the lady sitting next to me said - and I believe her - the fellas here don't do a lot but what they do they do well.