The Weekly Review

Danielle Huntersmith is a barrister, a café owner, a mother of four, a legal mediator and a barista. Just another high-achieving superwoman. She promotes artists by displaying their work on her walls, trains and educates her team of baristas and invented the thoughtful name for her appealing, bohemian café.

Coffee Max, with its oversized bag of coffee beans atop the Burke Road hill, is well known by Camberwell locals. And, as owner Dino Crivelli hoped, the opening of a second shop at Doncaster Shopping Town almost three years ago increased awareness of the brand.

He’s removed the change table and applied for an evening liquor licence, but the new owner of this popular family café in Brunswick says the “kid crowd” is still welcome.

Knapp and Nick Edgar met while working at Tusk Café in Prahran, then worked together at Il Fornaio in St Kilda. They’re good mates and have travelled together too. Six-month-old Balderdash is their first café.

Before Callum Power opened Espresso Elements, his first café after a long background in hospitality, he tasted the coffee at every café in Hampton Street. He wanted to ensure his was distinctive. That was four years ago, and the coffee at “EE” is still unlike anything else on the street.