Coffee & Food

Coffee or cocktails, bakeries and butchers. The wonders that can be found within walking distance of 33 Brunning Street are a cornucopia of gastronomic gaiety.

Here are just a couple of the many highlights.

Attica
74 Glen Eira Road, Ripponlea

Awarded 3 Chefs Hats and named Restaurant of the Year 2012 by The Age Good Food Guide.

Walk there: 10 mins

Wall Two80

This from Broadsheet.com.au:
Possibly the most famous wall in Melbourne, Wall Two 80 is much more than that, though you could be forgiven for having missed its essence in amongst the colourfully dressed people lounging around on milk crates and benches.

Walk there:6 mins
Skate there: 4 mins

Las Chicas

203 Carlisle Street
Smack bang at the end of the city bound train platform of Balaclava Station, the food is worth the weight wait!

Walk there: 5 mins

Gattica
223 Carlisle Street

Coffee? These guys have got you covered. In a street renown for its quality brews this one rises to the top.

Walk there: 5 mins

Babble on Babylon
85 Brighton Road, Elwood

Jamaican scrambled eggs and the BEST toasted bacon and egg sambos. Right at the end of Brunning Street, on the Elwood side of Brighton Rd.

Walk there: 2.5 mins

Carlisle Wine Bar
137 Carlisle Street, Balaclava

Lonely Planet called it: "Dark and inviting, this is the kind of place that makes you wish you were a regular." Living walking distance from this fine Italian inspired food institution means now you can be...

Walk there: 8 mins


Hawk & Hunter
Glen Eira Avenue, Ripponlea

Recent winner of a Melbourne design award for it's spacious yet warm interior fit out, this cafe/providore is a secret the locals don't want revealed!

Walk there: 8 mins
Skate there: 5 mins (or 8mins and a bruised ego later if you fall off your skatey - just ask the Mr!)

Also in the neighbourhood: Ilona Staller, Circa, Stokehouse, Donovans, Jacques Reymond, Cicciolina and my fave: Mirka