Date: 15.8.11
Confession time, I’m a sucker for commercialism. I love my TV, love pop music, I like to see blockbusters at the cinema and I’ve worked on the TV show Neighbours. Hippies hate me, and I’m okay with that – I actually kind of like it. The Elwood General Store feels like a place hippies would like. It is actually an organic food store with a little café tacked on down the back. They make food which highlights the groceries you can buy. My friends had the porridge, I had a mouthful and it did seem very nice. The service was friendly enough but a little slow – my coffee seemed to take ages to arrive and we were one of only two tables there. Clearly the store side comes first. As for the coffee, I am admittedly not a fan of organic coffee. It has a distinctive taste which I feel takes away from the flavour. It was an okay drop, just nothing special. I understand why people like this place, like I understand why people go bush and live without electricity for a week. I’m just not one of them.
AMBIENCE: The café section is far too small but is dressed shabby chic and seems to work. But I did feel like I needed to confess to the waiter that the last two films I saw at the cinema were superhero films. 3 out of 5.
SERVICE: They were friendly, but slow and things seemed to come out at very different times. The big pot of chai came out before my friend’s latte. 2.5 out of 5.
COFFEE: Clearly they are proud of their chai’s and dandelion teas that coffee felt like an after thought. I can only really say it was average. 2.5 out of 5.
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