Let Eilish Maloney and her team at Moss Vale cafe The Studio by The What If Society do all the hard work for you by dreaming up local, seasonal dishes that will bring you back again and again. August 16, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more.
Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Cafe $$ $$ Eilish Maloney, founder and owner of a zero-waste food co-operative called the What If Society, is sweeping the floor five minutes before closing at her Moss Vale cafe, the Studio. “Well timed,” she says, smiling.
“We’ve got a few things left.” She walks to a wedge of cake, eight dark cocoa balls and a section of herringbone-patterned bread-and-butter pudding loaf. Seven hours earlier, the Studio, a small olive building on a residential street, was filled with food and people.
Counters, the kitchen, a fridge and food cabinets offered croissants, glazed twists, vanilla doughnuts, triple-choc brownies and curry beef pies. There were sesame-and-brown butter biscuits, artichoke-and-hazelnut muffins, beer can chicken sandwiches, sticky fig glazed pastry pockets and a spinach-and-cream cheese sponge. There was also the Trust the Chef table menu, which offers five dishes, cryptically titled and defined by size: The One that Everyone Talks About ($16); Small But Mighty ($17); Meet Me in the Middle ($24); Whole Lotta Love ($27); and Just Feed Me ($40).
Each is what Malone.