The Weekly Review

Paul Minehan is another trained bean counter who was lured from figures by the coffee bean. It’s a common theme. He jokes that he hasn’t told his mum yet.

Melburnians know how to appreciate a spring morning when it arrives.

She’s Lady Bear and he’s Big Bear. He runs the six-month-old café, so they named it after him.

In a hidden location, in a secret suburb (kind of; Cremorne shares Richmond’s postcode), Kevin Lee decided to name his new café 3Lives after the Gabriel García Márquez theory that each of us has three different lives – our public life, private life and a secret life.

Coffee is made with care, and a rather large piccolo latte will arrive in a glossy black tulip-shaped cup, with good body, well-textured milk and bearing a nicely etched rosetta.