Had a late coffee and antipasto last night with Ennis at The Boroughs Cafe Wine Bar. We’d arrived for the national Uniting Church Lay Preachers conference in Margate, checked into a motel and headed out to sample the night life. Redcliffe, we discovered, does have a number of cafes and restaurants open on a Wednesday night. We drove along the peninsula from Margate to Scarborough and decided to try “The Boroughs” because of the ambiance peeking out the door. Turned out they’d only been open one week.
The Boroughs was a long and narrow cafe with a strong sense of community, looking out over Moreton Bay. The kitchen had just closed but the ‘Winter Grazing menu’ was still on. The antipasto included olives marinated on site. Ennis tried the chai tea – black tea with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves and honey, made like a latte. I asked the waitress for an affrogato (icecream and espresso) and she said they’d have a go. It was spot on. Mind you the espresso kept me awake all night.
Check out the web site. Pop in to 97 Landsborough Rd, Scarborough and say hello to Mark Pritchard and Bruce Neal. (I assume the “borough’ name comes from the street name and locality name. This is a fine example of a ‘third place’ where people will keep coming back.