Mooba – Subiaco
Shit coffee gives me the shits. Well not literally.
It’s because I know I can do it at home—better, that, and the fact I just forked out $3.50 to pay some chump at a machine to immolate my long macchiato.
On the other hand, good coffee is like a bolt from the blue.
It sends filamentous sparks across my brain, and somehow the waxing misanthropy is abated. I want to hug people.
So it’s reassuring to know that there are more and more boutique cafes poking up-and-out of our sunny pavemented city.
What is so special about boutique cafes I hear you ask? They are focused on delivering good coffee, in unique surroundings. Just think. If a boutique cafe made terrible coffee it wouldn’t last long. It too would suffer from a (fiscally) fiery death.
Mooba in Subiaco is not a place where beans are sacrificed. It is a place to get coffee that delivers that blue–bolt with precision.
Curving to the street corners of Outridge and Railway Road, Moodba is a cafe that makes clever use of light, space and glass.
The ceilings are high and the network of upstair’s plumbing is unapologetically contrasted in red. Polished glass meets structural steel that is cool and airy. This meets the warm brown decor echoed in Mooba’s signage. Artist prints hang from the walls. The coffee just looks that little bit browner…
But enough about the space.
How is the coffee? Top-notch.
The long macc I had, was a double ristretto pour. A Mooba house-blend by 5 Senses, it was piquant and pure, rounded by the soft-sweet milk froth. (Abstract Gourmet said he’d hurt me if I used my wine terms for coffee, so I’m taking self-defence classes)
It’s what I would expect for a small business that is switched on. Facebook. Twitter. Blog. They’re there.
You need coffee on the run? SMS your order to the cafe’s dedicated number and pick it up as you breeze though.
Now that’s using the old noggin. And it the old noggin works best when it’s had a good cuppa.
Enjoy.
(Mooba also holds a small bar liquor licence)
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:14 am
You can sms your orders ahead?!
I gotta admit, that’s pretty clever for a cafe to do that.
August 25th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Fantastic coffee but I’m a bit over texting an order waiting ten minutes and then arriving to be told another 10 to 15 wait for takeaway. The SMS service should reply with pick up time. I’m willing to compromise a bit of quality for speed with takeaway. Specially if it makes you late for work to grab a coffee.