PROFILED BY DE GROOTS MEDIAThere are over 60 cafes in the city. In their coffees, some concentrate more on their crema art than the quality of what sits under it. An increasing number of others serve coffee delicately aromatized and flavoured with polystyrene. Most lay claim to using fresh Tasmanian food produce. Instead, at many, what’s put before you is a travesty. But, at Machine, you get the real thing, in both your cup and on the plate.
While the decor is 50s laminex, the juices are freshly squeezed. They only serve real bread. The jams and relishes are freshly made in-house. And the menu offers true modern cafe food - light, tasty, healthy, satisfying and with a good selection of vegetarian and vegan options. It is a wonderful place to sit, inside or outside, with the loyal and mixed following of regulars at the sunny end of Salamanca Square to enjoy the city’s passing parade. And, in a most unusual combination, you really can sit with a coffee watching your smalls tumbling away in their attached, but separate and rather glamorous laundry. The Vespa’s another story.
Graeme Phillips