You must have worked up an appetite with all that
walking.
There are a number of great cafes on Bronte Beach. They are
literally stacked up next to each other. They have great vegetable
or chicken pies, great smoothies. And the coffee in
Sydney is
arguably the best coffee I have ever had in the world. Better than
Italian, Parisian, or from any major city. I don't know, they just
have it right. It's good, strong, bitter, and how it's supposed to
taste.
Where do you go to get a good cup of joe?
On
Bondi Beach, I go to Gusto. You sit on stools on the street and
have your coffee and juice. You can grab a sandwich, too. There's
another place called Bondi Aqua Bar, on the north end of Bondi,
that does great scrambled eggs. It's a very tiny place, a hole in
the wall. It's sort of controlled chaos in there. The
food is
great, always fresh, but much of the allure is the ambience and
spirit of fun.
You mentioned fish and chips earlier. You can get that in
Sydney?
Yes, right there on Bondi Beach at a place called Bondi Surf
Seafoods on Campbell Parade, where I've been going since about
1990. You can get your greasy-style fish and chips or you can get
it freshly grilled, without the batter. They sell extraordinary
seafood as well, if you want to cook it yourself. But the fish and
chips you just take away in a box and sit with there on the beach
at sunset. It's beautiful.
What about when you want to actually sit down at a table to
eat?
Hugo's, on Bondi Beach, was always my favorite. It's a small place
and they do great seafood, great cocktails, fantastic daiquiris
with fresh fruits, and a great balmain bug [a slipper lobster],
which is one of
Australia's delicacies, somewhere between a crab
and calamari. It's beautiful and fresh. I get a little upset with
them now, because they always call the paparazzi. You can't go in
there without it being in the paper the next day.