The cost to outfit and run a new gelato cafe can range from $150,000 to $300,000 depending on its scale.
For at one end of Paterson Plank Road is an unexpected oasis known as the Waterfront Cafe, Driving Range and Marina.
In the cafe, menu items range from $8 to $24.
The cafe serves a range of coffees, teas and espressos.
PRICE RANGE Cafe appetizers, $8 to $17; entrees, $16 to $28, desserts, $9.
Newbury and Boylston Streets — commercial strips lined with restaurants, cafes and businesses ranging from chains like Apple to specialty shops like Raven Used Books (which focuses on scholarly texts) — are within a few blocks.
The developers have moved in, shiny new apartment blocks have sprouted, artisanal cafes selling free-range, organic fried chicken have arrived, and Knox-Hooke, out of prison having served his sentence, is homeless.
Its artists -- James Romberger, Seth Tobocman, Sandy Jimenez and Peter Kuper among them -- are a talented, temperamentally adversarial bunch, and in their work, which is installed in Exit Art's cafe, a whole range of stimulating ethical questions and political doubts are raised.
I visited a number of food and drink places around Canberra, from high-end restaurants to mid-range eateries, chain cafes, and independent bars.
(The offerings on Grand range from cafes and boutiques to Domino's Pizza and Whole Foods).
