97 Bay Road WAVERTON SYDNEY NSW 2060
PHONE 99554762
Review originally posted on the 31st of January 2003
Breakfast is a positive spirited meal during which the business of the day ahead falls into manageable perspective. The critical period in matrimony, so I’m told, is breakfast-time. Being single, I know this theory holds true. I want legroom from all the world's stage and its most trying auditions during the morning.
Something of a legend, thanks to its genteel clientelle and the panache of the cooking is The Coffee Shop (Pats) at Waverton on Bay Road. Pat is the mother of proprietor G. Harmsworth. The Coffee Shop was an earlier name, as was Witham’s. Witham however, still supplies the coffee… Keeping up?
In the sunlight it would be difficult to feel less than sanguine at Pats. There are harbour views for morning escapists while in the distance, one cup of the bridge formally known as Madonna’s bra points perkily skyward. Underneath market umbrellas whiskered men in Panama hats listen to body-piercing stories from the next table or to a husband protest that the mortgage money is being frittered away on Chanel. There are mothers with toddlers, business people, and Neutral Bay types negotiating the slicks of extra virgin olive oil in 4x4 vehicles. Balls Head Point is home to HMAS Waterhen, and on just a short stroll after breaking your fast, Froggart Lookout offers another ceremony of peace. This clearing within the thickness of Sydney Red Gums offers a maritime seascape rarely seen on postcards. The vivid bird life and strong handsome native flora is equally awesome.
Food? Yes, good too. Muesli, yogurt and Dallas Bakery bread, bowls of fruit, scrambled eggs or bagels. While wispy croissants are the work of a dedicated master with cool hands. Nothing entirely new, but fresh, disturbingly sexy, primitive and cool are the lot. Plus, every conceivable variation of tea and coffee makes the fair Pats a breakfast beacon and a testimony to G. Harmsworth and his vision of the best produce, handled simply. The welcoming attitude of the staff is the icing on the cake.
Truly a haven of tranquility, this place oozes charm.
Publishing the unpublishable while growing up and finding complacency
- Jimmy Olsen
- Sydney, Australia
- So far, much of the content here started life as a rather embarrassing personal journal, but it's now something I can begin to be proud of. In a warped way, both my sites are the growing inbred children of the now defunct parental site: www.butterboxmedia.com and characteristically (if not genetically) remain under construction. So for that I will apologize, but I won't ever say sorry for my inability to deal with the everyday, the trashy, the crappy, the dismissive, mass stupidity, the bland and the empty. Below are a few reviews from long ago that I exhumed from www.landofsurfandbeer.com.au, a site where I once occasionally posted under the screen name of hed. I have not changed the content of the reviews, however I have corrected my naff punctuation, incorrect spelling and frequent inability to use grammar correctly. Who knows? Perhaps one day this too will be corrected. In the meantime, the best hope you have at getting me to post anything about anything is by virtue of either being really terrible or really wonderful. Roll the dice.
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