Moana Coffee - Yelp Elite Event

As part of the Yelp Elite I was graciously invited by Laura D (the head guru of Perth Yelp) to meet other Elite Yelpers at Moana Coffee in the city.

Moana Coffee is a balcony cafe located in the Moana Chambers building; a beautiful building, showcasing the glamour and glistening era of the 1920s. Andy, one of owners (there are three of them) of the cafe explains to us, Yelpers, that the space has been recently refurbished by architects Nic Burnsdon and Beth George to turn an empty, running down space into offices, an art gallery and of course the cafe itself.

Old architecture, cozy cute details for decoration, quiet space and nice simple fresh homemade foods is the perfect mix of the spirit of Colonial-European with modern day cafe. It's in the heart of the city on Hay street Hall, above Valley girl, but it is an oasis of peace and quiet, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It is relaxed and calm. The perfect place to have a meal (might I add the menu looks delicious and reasonably priced too!), have good coffee and watch the world and the passerbys below at the balcony.

I'm not sure what their usual menu taste like but from the canapes, and the platter of dips that we consumed at the Yelp Elite event it's bound to be good. Andy told us that majority of the menu is homemade and they will be focusing on ensuring that good coffee is also provided and want to be the place for people to come for a coffee, relax, chat and take in the world.

We were a little late to the Yelp event and because of that the choice of food we had wasn't very large. This probably meant that the food was rather yum and was quickly consumed by all. We missed out on the chicken skewers but we had a platter of carrot, celery, turkish bread and dip and the dip was rather delicious. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm sure it had chives in it. 

The official yelp photographer however took many of the photos from this point onwards (the ones above were taken by my trusty and overused iphone camera). It show cased a handful of the canapes at the function.

Although we missed out on a lot of the food we didn't miss out on the desserts, which were these beautiful homemade lamingtons with cream and jam and some chocolate mini mudcakes. The lamingtons were satisfying, but I think the mudcake needed more chocolate.

It was a lovely, casual, cozy event and the venue was a great choice. To have been privy to this hidden gem in the heart of the city it's great. I'm now excited for my next RDO so I can drag a few friends here for a lunch meeting and catch up. Cozy, friendly people and the perfect location for people watching.  

And  if that wasn't enough it was just lovely to meet the organisers of Yelp Perth. A great community that promotes all the businesses (restaurants, venues, shops, pharmacies etc.) as well as events in Perth. It was also nice to see and meet other Yelpers.

Perth manager Laura D with one of the owners of Moana Cafe, Andy and Yelp Intern Abbey (seated)

If you aren't already a member check out Yelp here and sign up. It costs nothing but you get to discover more hidden gems of Perth, so why not? I especially recommend it to those that think there is nothing to do here. So why not discover Perth?

Please note that Moana Coffee opens from 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday.