The Thousands

This may be the only café in Australia with a fully functioning Sega Megadrive available to its clientele, (exciting prospect, even if you are a loyal Nintendo fan). Not only that, but after you finish your game of pro tennis 94 and coffee (a good one) you can purchase the table at which you are seated.

Stores whose aesthetics tug on our nostalgic sentiments are nothing new, but Vintage Kitchen And Vintage Closet is a spacious café with the stepped upper level bearing two racks and one table of reasonably priced clothing, movie posters, art and a multitude of charming vintage knick knacks. They also serve hearty food along with sweet cafe fare like Pashka and Nougat for breakfast and lunch, and have live music accompanied dinners on Friday and Saturday nights.

In the single bathroom, above a bunch of brown paper lunch bags, a sign reads something like the following “Please place sanitary waste in one of the bags below and in the bin as our ‘vintage’ water pipes can’t handle it”. Either this is an overt attempt at securing the pledged allegiance of a target market, or a piece of humorous self-awareness. I’m going to go with the latter.