Colourful
& Quirky
Cafes Across the Margaret River Region, the coffee and cake experience is different everywhere you go thanks to the characteristics of the region’s colourful and quirky cafes. WORDS | Dianne Bortoletto
30 TALE S & TRAI LS | margare tri ve r.c om
Busselton Bistro Breton Traditional French cuisine with your coffee? Yes please. Bistro Breton is located on Queen Street in Busselton and offers savoury and sweet buckwheat crepes. This is the real-deal of French food, with the Bistro/café’s owners hailing from Brittany, a north-western province of France (and historically regarded as the birthplace of the crêpe). Using ethically sourced coffee (The Cape Effect from Dunsborough) and tea (Seven Seas in Cowaramup), you can pull up at chair at Bistro Breton from Monday – Friday for breakfast or lunch. Hippo Lakes Farm shop, event venue and café, the familyowned Hippo Lakes sits on 30 acres about 16km from Busselton in Chapman Hill. The BYO café focuses on locally sourced seasonal produce for its dishes with plenty of gluten free options.
Go for a short drive for a serene weekend breakfast or a lingering lunch and take in the stunning gardens, mature trees, bird life, and lake views that includes a floating island with water reeds, grasses, plants and two sculptures of baby hippos. There are photo opportunities galore. Dog friendly. Anniebrook Farm and Flower Emporium This place has it all – a farm with roaming animals including a chicken coop where you can check through a little window for eggs, a gift shop with everything from shawls to garden gnomes to essential oils, a vineyard, a truffle orchard, a café and veggie garden. The café serves award winning scones, homemade jams, pies with house-made pastry and other dishes using farm produce. Their lemon butter is to die for. Located in Carbunup River between Busselton and Yallingup, Anniebrook Farm and Flower Emporium hosts weddings and other large events too.
