Kürtösh, Surry Hills

This homey café is about one thing - Delicious, passed-down-from-mama recipe pastries and cakes. They're pretty proud of their house specialty - the twisty Hungarian pastry called (funnily), Kurtosh. It's quite good. Honestly, I'd say forget the pastry twister and go one of the Slab Cakes instead. Oh, so good! So far, my favourite has been the Catastrophe Flourless Choc Cake. Or mayyyybe actually the Lemon Crumble Cheesecake. Pretty much mention Mum's Chocolate Cake and I'm ready to trip a blind person for a bite! If you can't choose, you could order a sliver of each and call it day. This is the best bit about Kurtosh - everything is sold by weight, and there's no minimum (or maximum) for what you buy. So you can literally order a sliver each of four kinds of cake. Hoorah! 

Lemon Crumble Cheesecake and Catastrophe Flourless Chocolate Cake

Extra bonus: open late so you can pop in for after dinner dessert.

Kurtosh
Crown Street, Surry Hills; and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest
Mon- Fri: 7am - 10pm
Sat + Sun: 8am - 10pm

Victoria Street, Darlinghurst
Open until 11pm on Fridays and Saturday

To The Woods, 6054

Bassendean just upped its cute factor. Newly placed on Old Perth Road, this humble coffee shop is a neat little meeting point between Guildford and the city. Hot drinks and cakelets come made-in-house or locally sourced. Brunchy things - breakfast parfait, Pear Raspberry Banana Bread and savoury croissants, will see you with change for $10. Simple, thrifty and lovely. Coffee is creamy good and Little Miss Glass Half Full making it, is infectiously chipper. If the weather's sweet, grab a $5 gourmet pie to go and drive down to nearby Point Reserve for some river vistas.

I'm pegging Old Perth Road as the next Maylands strip. Watch this space.

To The Woods

Mon-Fri: 7am - 3pm

Sat: 8am-1pm
9 Old Perth Road
Bassendean, WA
08 6363 5453

Mrs S., 6690

Mrs S. has remained in my top 3 decadent Perth brunch destinations since it opened. The food is next level, service is sweet and don't forget those insanely delicious, voluptuous cakes. On a recent visit, the Divine Mrs. S had whipped up some unbelievable Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Chocolate Lamingtons. I know, right!! Is that even legal?!? That is like, four kinds of amazing in one. Pure hedonism.

Oh. My. Goodness.