It’s charming, cute, and could pass off as a feminine chemist’s laboratory.

A recovering coffee abuser’s worst nightmare.

Not a place you just stumble upon. Not a place you will forget.

The Valley has been saved.

I’ve been missing out on this New Farm gem for years. Why had no one compelled me sooner?

It’s that time again. All you’re after is a café that you can trust, that you can always come back to. To serve great food and great coffee, served by friendly people. That cares about how it presents itself. A place you can introduce others to with confidence. Pearl Café is that place.

It seems everyone in Brisbane knows about this insanely popular Paddington breakfast-lunch destination. On the weekend it’s common to encounter a line 10-20 deep and thus it took several months of drive-by reconnaissance to finally decide to just line up like the rest. But was Anouk worth it?