Social Manna

In a 1920s building on the Albany Highway cafe strip in Victoria Park, this is a daytime kitchen from chef Sandro Puca, his first solo venture. The cooking pushes breakfast past the usual — a much-cited chicken-and-waffle plate, loaded banana bread — with cakes, pastries and sourdough baked in-house daily and a breakfast bar of compound butters and jams. Open every day from early morning until early afternoon, it has built a strong local following and reviews to match. Broadsheet has noted the fine-dining hints in an otherwise casual menu. It reads as a neighbourhood cafe doing more than the format usually asks, and queues at weekends are common.