Top Paddock Crew to Open Brand New Cafe Kettle Black

It's pretty clear the good folk behind Top Paddock, Three Bags Full and Two Birds One Stone are completely unable to sit still; they're opening a brand new cafe dubbed Kettle Black this month. Nathan Toleman, Ben Clark and Diamond Rozakeas are setting up their latest venture on Albert Road in South Melbourne, in a rather odd-looking building that fuses a Victorian terrace house with a modern apartment building.

With the new cafe's fitout at the hands of South Yarra design firm Studio You Me, we’re expecting to see something pretty bold (the only sneak peaks we've seen on Twitter so far are wooden parquetry wall detailing and hexagonal tile-meets-concrete flooring). Just last year, Top Paddock won Best Cafe Design in the Eat Drink Design Awards and Best New Cafe in The Age Good Cafe Guide awards, so there's some relatively big shoes to fill right there.

While the menu direction hasn't been hinted at yet, if Toleman, Rozakeas and Clark's other ventures are anything to go by you can expect top-notch service, Five Senses coffee pumping all day and a foolproof, freshly housemade smorgasbord of nosh options.

Kettle Black opens at 7am on Thursday, July 24. Find the new digs at 50 Albert Road, South Melbourne.

Via Good Food.