Small Block

With staff who manage efficiency without fluster, a kids' area and even books on the shelves for grown-ups, Small Block boasts the sort of easy comfort that lures you in for brekkie and finds you lingering until lunch. Concrete floors and warm wood mesh with industrial flourishes to make it a stylish place, too, but it's the fine food and coffee that keep the tables turning over. Fluffy ricotta pancakes with saffron vanilla pear and Barbados cream taste as opulent as they sound, while 'summer breakfast' is a perfectly delicious any-season combination of eggs, avocado, spinach, Persian feta and beetroot relish.