Silk Coffee Bar

Queues are both good and bad news. Good, in that it means the coffee is worth queuing for. Bad, in that you have to wait your turn. A caffe latte ($3.50) here has a heightened body and caramel overtones that helps explain the queue snaking out onto the footpath. Co-owner Greta Perko's collected ephemera - tennis racquet, Scrabble words, old suitcase - softens the slick new space, colonised by everyone from tradies at 6am through to suited-up ready-for-business types and young mums later in the day. Fight for a stool at the street-side window and try the slow-cooked broccoli and eggs, poached pear brioche or a freshly baked muffin.