Mixed Business

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• Mixed Business

  Matt Preston, Reviewer

  Tuesday, October 07, 2008

  Mixed Business is a prime example of a modern dumpster chic interior.

  Growing up far from Melbourne's leafy suburbs, a milk bar was somewhere Alex and his Droogs went to knock back drug-laced moo juice in A Clockwork Orange. The corner shops or mixed businesses trading in chocolate milk and double-barrelled packs of Winnie Blues I found here were rather less exciting. Or they were, until Melbourne cafe-nistas starting taking them over to create cafe latte-cum-sausage-roll dens such as Jerry's Milk Bar in Elwood, Cowderoy Diary or A Minor Place. This trend continues apace in Clifton Hill and neighbouring Northcote. Somewhat ironically, however, although Clifton Hill's Mixed Business is called "Mixed Business", it was previously a furniture restorers. Still that's not stopped owners Lauren Bieber and Tom Crowe from bolting ancient cafe advertising placards (unearthed in the Bendigo tip's recycle centre) to the walls. These chipped and faded enamelled signs promise "chips and gravy" and "buttered crumpets - in season". My friend swears she's seen a pe...

  Source: The Age

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