Blunt Trivia @ The Knife Shop

Quaint and quirky little cafe with great outdoors space. They do fabulous coffees and they also sharpen your knives while you wait. What more can you ask for!

I love this place. Great coffee and breakfast and the opportunity to sharpen your kitchen knives while you wait. Beautiful and interesting courtyard. Odd things like typewriters hanging in the yard and maniquine in the toilets.

I discovered this place as I was wandering around the back streets of Collingwood and thought to myself that any cafe that calls itself a knife shop is definitely worth checking out, which is what I did one cold Friday morning before work. Okay, it was a little difficult for me to get to, but it was certainly worth it. They do make a pretty good breakfast, and they name their dishes after the main roads in Collingwood (such as The Smith Street, the Johnson Street I believe I had a Johnson Street). They do have your standard breakfast fare, but having the standard fare at a cafe with unique offerings, is like having a Big Mac at a fancy restaurant. The dcor has an old sixties charm about it, and the collection of books on the shelves were quite interesting as well (including a collection of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks). Oh, and I should also mention is that they also sharpen knives, or at least they say they do. Cool place, and would definitely consider having breakfast here again sometime.