Hmmm...'s Latest Review

Jones The Grocer (Dempsey) 

 14 Aug 2008 at 2:33 pm

It's extremely Aussie-fied, right down to the setting, the Aust. staff and the items stocked on their shelves. Expect to find hard-to-find items such as, rosewater, orange blossom water and Persian fairy floss. Although I thought the items were rather pricey, I couldn't resist buying various items since they are of good quality and hard to get elsewhere.

We went there for brunch. Hubby had a banana smoothie and I had a mango smoothie, pretty good. Not too sweet but flavorful and creamy. He had the pumpkin soup, which was not bad but I thought a bit watered down. It was not watered down with water but with cream or something similar. There was not enough pumpkin as per the pumpkin soups you can get in Australia. I had a pumpkin salad, which was a tad bit too salty (I could crunch some bits of salt which greatly tasted like coarse sea salt). This was followed by a latte and a slice of vanilla & strawberry cake. The latte was excellent! The cake was not bad, but not great either. T...   [Read more]