Beverley Sutherland Smith takes over Armadale cafe

Cooking teacher and author of 27 cookbooks Beverley Sutherland Smith has taken over Baby Blue Cafe in Armadale with her daughter, Suzanne, and son, Scott, changing the name to A Taste for All Seasons. The cafe is named after Beverley's first book, published in 1975 and now in its 16th edition. The Sutherland Smiths have been renovating a former fashion shop at 436 High Street, Prahran, for the past two years with the intention of opening that as a food business, but ''it's taking longer than we expected'', Suzanne says. ''We were getting itchy feet and when this location came up, we thought, 'Let's get started here'.'' A Taste for All Seasons is a 40-seater cafe with take-home dishes available. In April, the Prahran shop, to be called The Seasonal Kitchen, will ''be the flagship store, a multifaceted food centre to showcase mum's food to everyone'', Suzanne says. The Seasonal Kitchen will have a cooking school, take-home meals and a cafe, with Beverley and Suzanne in the kitchen cooking for both shops. Scott will run the front of house. Sutherland Smith first opened her cooking school in Mount Waverley in 1967.