Little By Little Cafe, Berwick

FAIRY

I found a gorgeous new Cafe in Berwick today thanks to a tip off on Instagram. Open for two weeks now, Little by Little Cafe, Berwick is owned and run by two locals.

Unique to Berwick, Little By Little is a stand alone Cafe in a gorgeous little building that has had quite the spiffy make over prior to opening. You will find it at 2-10 Reserve St, Berwick.

Little by Little Cafe Berwick
www.eatmystreet.net

Their menu looks beautiful and my afternoon tea was delicious. Banana Bread, Coffee and brunch Little by Little Cafe Berwickfresh out of the oven. The staff were lovely too and there was a great energy to the place.

  • Friendly staff
  • Great coffee
  • Sweet location

My favourite thing though? They are serving 5 Senses Coffee, and it was perfect.  🙂

So stop in and let me know what you think.

Welcome to Berwick, Little By Little.

Dani B xx

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Best places to eat in Berwick

I think the time has come to finally do a list of my top picks for dining in Berwick and beyond.

Berwick

As I have mentioned before, I have been living in lovely Berwick for more than a year now and in that time I have visited a lot of the local restaurants, cafe’s and foodie spots. I won’t lie, there was a bit of disappointment early on and there were a lot more coffee’s being made at home. There was also quite a bit of jealousy toward other foodie blogs who nonchalantly complain about the plethora of food trucks lining their streets I’m taking about you  http://www.considerthesauce.net . But after 12 months, and a lot of research, I finally have a list of places to visit. So here it is, my gift to you Berwick!

Best Bakery

Pane Di Fiore. Shop 1 Oakview Boulevard, Narre Warren North.

best bakery near Berwick

They do cakes, they do coffee, they do delicious sandwiches. They also have a lovely assortment of bread and often have some kind of “theme” food for Easter or Christmas. They do not have a website yet but you can check them out at their Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/PaneDiFiore

There are some great photo’s of their sourdough loaf and their hot cross buns if you’re feeling hungry.

Best Dumplings

Lucky Dumpling. 19 Webb St, Naree Warren.

best dumplings near Berwick

This is a very new, small, utilitarian dumpling restaurant in Naree Warren. It is rating pretty well on urbanspon.com and when I visited it we had a lovely dinner of noodles, dumplings and spring onion pancake. You do not eat here for le ambiance  but for le tasty dumplings. Yum! I am so glad Chinese street food finally found us out here in the South Eastern Suburbs.

Best Farmers Market

This is a hard one. I love the Berwick Farmers Market which I have previously posted about here. http://eatmystreet.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/farmers-market-at-the-old-cheese-factory.

Best market near Berwick

But this week my winners gong goes to Emerald Market at the Emerald community hall. They win because they have the BEST bread EVER in the whole world. I never exaggerate. 😉 It has to be seen and tasted to be believed and this is one of the only places they sell it. They are called Artisan Crust boulangerie  and patisserie.

favourite market near Berwick

They can be found here

https://www.facebook.com/theartisancrust

For more information on the Emerald Market and when it is run look here.

Emerald Craft and Produce Market

The Emerald Market is more of a craft and produce market than a strictly farmers market so really they are both very good markets and it is hard to choose. I know, try both!

Best Chips

Goodys Charcoal Chicken. Shop 8, 215 Parkhill Drive, Berwick.

This one is easy. I am mad keen on chips. Some might say addicted (anyone who knows me well does indeed say this). I really don’t go a fortnight without eating hot chips. I frequently travel across Berwick to eat these chips. Crispy, clean, very salty. I had better stop talking about them or I might need to eat more. So here are the details:

There is really not much to say about hot chips right? Everyone loves them. Get on them!

Best Pizza

best pizza in Berwick

Carlei Green Vineyard and Cafe. 1 Alber Rd, Upper Beaconsfield.

I have blogged about my  disappointment with pizza in Berwick before. I have eaten quite a bit more pizza since then but my opinion has not changed. I will say this, if you will not use real olives, then do not talk to me. Those pre chopped bit of black lego tyres taste like cardboard so WHY BOTHER? So I refuse to recommend any pizza restaurant bar Crust in Beaconsfield and that is nothing amazing. BUT, if you want to eat out for pizza and it is Sunday, then visit Carlei green vineyards and winery. They have their own wood fired pizza oven and a chef/cook who know’s their way around it. It is a small menu but so far every pizza I have tasted is delicious.

Carlei Green Vineyards Winery and Cafe

Best Soft Cheese

Le Dauphin from Thomas Dux grocery in Glen Waverley. Centro the Glen, 235 Springvale Rd, Glen Waverley.

I have had some major misses with buying cheese in Berwick. I was basically very spoilt in the past. But really, in Berwick and surrounds I have bought cheese with metal in it, mouldy cheese that was not meant to be mouldy, off sweaty cheese and bouncy rubbery cheese. I love cheese and would like to live off it (plans are currently under way). So far Aldi would have to be my best place to buy it and that is not aiming particularly high it would be fair to say. So this one is a bit out of left field but here it is.

I know that is a long way to drive from Berwick, but if I am ever in the area I pick some cheese up. It is always good and ripe and well looked after and beats food poisoning from rank cheese near by any day. Le Dauphin coincidentally means, The Prince and indeed this Prince of the Brie that is made up on the Rhone Alps of France is delicious and perfect and I am in love with it. I bought it for $60/ kg at Thomas Dux, which is cheaper than buying it at Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder ($80/kg). So while it is expensive, it is also a bargain and it did fly all the way from Europe so I guess fair is fair.

Best Fine Dining:

This gong definitely goes to O.My in Beaconsfield. 23 Woods St, Beaconsfield.

best restaurant near Berwick

You can read my post about them here

O.My Beaconsfield

or visit them here

http://omyrestaurant.com.au

Interesting and delicious food in a sophisticated, modern restaurant. I can’t wait to go back!

Best Coffee

I know you want to know my tip for best coffee. It is a big call though….. We do have our very own specialty coffee roaster

http://zestcoffee.com.au

But they do not have a cafe.

I think the Gold FLogie (food logie) has to go to Four Figs in Beaconsfield. The coffee is consistently good here. They did charge me $4.50 once for a take away coffee which put them straight onto my bad list, but if you want to drink in, then this is the place.

Or you could just come to my place. The coffee is always good here.

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Happy Eating Berwick!

Dani Bee

Cafe Revival Berwick.

I have to make two disclaimers before I review Cafe Revival in Berwick.

1. If the Sun is shining on my back and there is a cool breeze in the air and a beautiful view, I am pretty happy.

2. I am easily impressed by shiny red coffee machines that are reminiscent of Italian racing cars.

Cafe Revival Berwick.

Now we have that out of the way I can say that I really enjoyed my coffee at Cafe Revival today.

I have already mentioned in a previous post that Berwick is really at its beautiful best at this time of year and so it was today. I popped into Cafe Revival for a quick coffee stop and scored the best seat in the house, right outside the cafe on the footpath. In the sun. Facing down a lovely tree lined street. With Berwick’s busy, sometimes noisy main street behind me and out of sight. There was a big red shiny coffee machine taking up most of the front window of the cafe that opens out onto the street for ease of ordering. So yes, I was happy even before I ordered.

My skinny flat white was delicious. You know that moment when you have your first sip of a coffee and sometimes, just sometimes, it is so perfect in flavour and temperature and construction that you do a little sigh? Well, that was me. Today’s coffee was excellent. They use Segadredo beans which is not a coffee that I am familiar with but I really enjoyed it today. The intensity was just right and (shock, horror) my flat white was not actually just a latte in a different cup. It was a flat white. Bravo!

I have heard mixed reviews of Cafe Revival Berwick and also my previous experiences here were nothing worth writing about. The food here does not always have people excited. I didn’t eat anything today with that in mind.

Another thing worthy of note, there were a lot of suits here. Suits ordering at the widow, suits getting take away, female suits, male suits, suits of every size and colour (nah, that is an exaggeration, they were all grey or black). I remember this from my previous visits too. So I think we can conclude that the Berwick suits like to drink here.

A note to those of you with children. I had the special privilege of drinking coffee without my two year old attachment today. If he was with me I would have gone elsewhere. This is a small, narrow cafe and the footpath is right near a road. Coffee-ing with children could be done here but is probably not worth the effort, in my opinion.

Plus it is harder to stare serenely at the beautiful tree’s that line Gloucester Avenue if you have a toddler with you. And the suits might give your children “that” stare. Thus some of the magic would be lost.

Overall a lovely place for a coffee, on the right day in the right seat with the right companions.

Maybe one day I might even get a chance to drive the shiny red racing….. I mean coffee machine.

The details:

My coffee was $3.70.

The address is 18 Gloucester Ave, Berwick.

Cafe Revival Berwick.

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Primary @ Pioneer Park

 

Primary @ Pioneer Park

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Primary @ Pioneer Park

“Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.”

Sometimes this little, apparently Biblical outtake, is more true than not. Today was one of those days.
I woke up like a bear with a sore head, on the wrong side of the bear cave bed (I hope you enjoyed that mishmash #DJDan). Cereal with milk at the kitchen bench was just not going to cut it so I took matters into my own hands and headed out. Destination: Primary @Pioneer Park Cafe.
As a Berwick resident for one whole year and four whole seasons I can say with confidence that Autumn and Spring are really the buzzing months for lovely old Berwick. The gardens, the tree’s, the wind, the opportunity to partake in our lovely outdoor spaces. So Primary Cafe is the perfect destination.
We got a table outside and the sun was kind enough to shine on my back and the wind was gentle enough to tickle not hassle.
Pioneer Park Cafe is the kind of posh version of having a coffee in Berwick. The restaurant was full of (mainly women) with lovely hair and lipstick and clothes made from swishy fabrics. There were also a few school Mum’s but their children were well entertained and behaved thanks to the playground that abuts the cafe’s deck.
I ordered eggs because I really needed them.
They came on very lovely wholegrain bread and they were cooked beautifully. Pre cracked pepper was available on the table and a fairly decent salt. My flat white was quite nice: nothing to complain about nothing to rave about. There was another lovely pattern in my froth that leads me to the conclusion that pictures in froth bears an inverse relationship to excellence in coffee but only at the moderate end of the spectrum. Feedback and ongoing experiments are welcome on this topic.
I have visited Pioneers Cafe before and had a similar experience; descent food and drink and lovely surroundings. The bill is always slightly more expensive that at other places in Berwick.
But sometimes, just sometimes, it doesn’t really matter.

Details

Address: 1-11 Peel Street, Berwick VIC 3806
Phone:(03) 9768 9681