Lunch

Normally I'm not a lady who lunches, but Val had returned from a trip to Melbourne and beyond. She wanted to tell me all about it. She booked a table for two at Zamia Cafe in Kings Park for 12.00 pm.  This place has grown in popularity since we last visited and we arrived at the same time as queues of other people - mostly groups of women with a small sprinkling of men. The smart people book for 1.00 pm we realised. (You can't just walk in: you would never get a table).

The menu is long and varied, and the glass cabinets display everything as you wait to place your order. The desserts are unbelievably tempting. It's hard to find anything SMALL and inexpensive. They know they are onto a good thing, so why not?

Zamia Cafe

A very busy cafe

View from one of the windows

One of the delights of Zamia is their own little garden of native West Australian wildflowers:

The paper daisies fill in all the gaps

Beautiful verticordia

I've gathered seeds from these bird flowers
in the past and tried to grow them at home!