Cafe Shenkin

Open to the street, this corner cafe furnished with chunky timber is distinguished by its serious coffee and commitment to making almost everything in house. Shakshouka is its signature dish, a soupy mix of tomatoes and capsicums with uncompromising spices and submerged poached eggs. House-made pita and dips work as snacks or graze-y lunches, or there's the burekas, slabs of light puff pastry beneath a simple but addictive creamy mushroom sauce. Smoked salmon omelette with feta and cooked avocado is unusual but it somehow works. Service is well meaning and familiar, if at times ineffective, but try one of Shenkin's spectacular sweets and all is forgiven.