Who would have thought that visiting a suburban cafe for breakfast would cause such a divide? Last weekend, we decided to get out of the city and visit The Rare Pear (see post here), but in doing so, exposed a simmering competition. Located within sight is another Holland Park favourite cafe called Deedot Coffee House, and it seems as if it has as many fans as The Rare Pear. I needed to get along and check out Deedot to settle the neighbourhood debate, once and for all.
There is a strip mall of shops along Logan Road, which went through one of those council rejuvenations a few years back. The idea was to pretty up parts of Queensland suburbs with the lure of making them attractive to retailers. I'm not sure that its effects were immediate, but there is no doubt that a few years later, there seems to be the type of energy in a suburb that brings a couple of cool little cafes to the same strip.
We'd seen how busy Deedot was the previous week and resolved ourselves to an even earlier start to ensure we secured a table without the dreaded long wait for a table. If we'd thought it was cold on our previous visit to the area, we were assaulted by an even colder morning, not great when you're up so early. I even had to pull out my leather bomber jacket from storage, just to make sure I'd stay warm. It's funny how things go, there were hardly any diners when we arrived at Deedot but the Rare Pear just up the street was going gangbusters! We easily secured a table of our choice and had a look over the menu.
