The Thousands

Update: Safe House got its booze license! Go have a wine to celebrate.

Did you hear something opened up in the Burton Street Bar Circle and it’s not a bar? Hmmmm. But it’s not like Safe House isn’t trying. It’s all dressed up to peddle drinks but the council is making it wait ’til about the end of the month. In the meantime, however, it’s doing a roaring trade as a cafe by offering Zumbo pastries, putting truffle in your eggs and doling out remarkable hits of Gravity Espresso.

The place is tiny, the feel Continental. Sultry browns and marble tables are slightly decadent, prompting ideas of stubbing a cigarette out in your half-finished meal and kicking back with a thorny French digestif. Not that you really would though, as the just-slightly-ritzier-than-usual menu is pretty tidy, zinging through the staples but kicking in some (relative) exotica like those truffled eggs, and the best food ever, carpaccio.

Once the booze pass arrives, extended trading hours and a dinner menu will accompany, and Burton Street will be one step closer to its goal of having more bars than the rest of Australia combined.