If you are looking for a cafe which services the local shopping strip, then Parkers Cafe is convenient enough and the coffee is reasonably good, ... although I have certainly had better. The location is nothing special - situated on a busy corner in Parkdale, across the road from the railway station. There is plenty of seating outdoors, but for the most part I fail to see anything particularly special in that, given the average location and railway noise-pollution. The cafe/staff seem to pride themselves on a laid-back feel, - but one has to wonder where laid back crosses a line and becomes slow, and unprofessional. Whilst staff were friendly enough with me, I did witness another couple being spoken to quite rudely. The waiter, (I think/hope), was trying to be funny, and make small talk but unfortunately had not a clue as to how seemingly inappropriate and imposing they were being. And yet the locals seemed to notice none of this, and seem content enough with the cafe, oblivious to the not so subtle professional inadequacies that a laid back feel gone askew affords the customer.