High Street Bakery

Some coffee shops are straight out of 'Home Beautiful", with their white interiors, with aluminium trim, and blonde-wood floors. Other coffee shops, are really greasy burger joints, making ends meet by repackaging their grey-water effluent.

However, MY coffee shop has that gritty patina that screams inner-city-leftie-bleeding-heart-up-yerself-liberal-academic. The coffee is yummo. The croissants are to die for. The baguettes are freshly baked (every 20 minutes), and overflowing with filling. High Street Bakery, owned and run by ex-pat Vietnamese, is ALWAYS busy. A great place in Willoughby to sit and watch the world go by, lost in one's own thoughts.