I am not a fine dining person, but I love a cafe, especially an old fashioned gem in a country town.
This is the White Rose Cafe at Dunedoo, NSW.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
I love these country mid-century cafes. They're like little time machines.
ReplyDeleteI like your turn of phrase Winam.
DeleteWe sell good food
ReplyDeletenot fast food
That's a sign I like to see.
Yeh isn't great. That day there were quite a lot of city folk in the cafe and boy were they grumbling about the length of service.
DeleteShow me a white table-cloth and sparkling silver, and I run a mile.
ReplyDeleteOh yes ... me too ... even though I love sparkling silver, shiny crystal and fine dinner plates, even a starched and ironed white linen cloth ... but only at home.
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