The Beatt

Health is all very well, but I hate tanking up on wellness-guaranteed juice to the extent that I'm too full for coffee or actual food.

That's one reason I love power shots at The Beatt: they're packed with goodness, but they're small, so you can gulp them in one intense burst of vitality and vim.

The immune shot with germ-busting ginger, orange and turmeric is so energising and spicy that looking at it made me feel like doing star jumps. Bonus: it was downed and doing me good without filling me up.

Obviously, I moved straight onto coffee, but The Beatt's menu is interesting enough to wake a person up all by itself, stacked with organic food that's also tasty and creative. They do such nice things with vegetables, chicken and salmon that you barely notice there's no bacon or sugar. 

The cafe is run by former criminal barrister Ben Rozenes​, who decided to clean up before he followed his colleagues down Heart Attack Parade. He sees The Beatt as a wellness hub. A yoga studio is about to open out back.

Anyway, the food: the fruit platter is a berry nice art work, the breakfast salad includes your daily dose of quinoa and kale, the green omelette would make Dr Seuss happy, and the nasi goreng is a nourishing lettuce cup piled with cauliflower rubble, black rice, seeds, spice and fried egg. It's fantastic.

Roast chicken and salad is the go-to lunch. Counter winners include rice-paper roll with spinach and coconut pancake and quinoa. It sounds holy health freak, but it's actually fresh, crunchy and balanced.

The sweets are made by Citizen Cacao, a raw chocolate purveyor that supplies cafes around town from these premises. I don't think raw chocolate compares to actual chocolate, but if you think of it as a different food, it can be nice: the hazelnut brownie is glossy, smooth and satisfying. 

The Beatt has just turned one. It's bright, calm and as gluten-free as you need it to be.

Prams cluster in the fig-tree-shaded courtyard, tradies slam flat whites out front, and active-wearing women debate the merits of Bokwa (the new Zumba) and Hip to Strip (the new pole dancing) in the cheery front room.

It's an altogether upbeat place to eat, meet and feel replete.

Rating: Four stars (out of five)