07-10-2011, 08:03 PM
This one is for older Melbournians but visitors might recall it.
It might be a stab in the dark because there might not be anyone who remembers it.
It was a cafe in Collins street down a kind of arcade. The waitresses were generally mature ladies in crisp clean uniforms. It was not so much a posh establishment but it had a charm long gone. It was also even for its time very reasonably priced.
The Wild Cherry was a kind of institution in Melbourne. The kind of menu you don't see today. Items like roast lamb with mint sauce, meat pies served with gravy real mashed potato and peas. The waitresses would come to your table and ask if you wanted tartar sauce with your fish. The salads were the kind our mums made, it had everything.
Desserts were wine trifle, apple pie etc.
As you left you paid this charming old effeminate man who sat on a huge podium behind his desk and old cash register. I was a much more handsome young man in those days and he would always smile saying "do come again sir, its always lovely to see you".
The wild cherry also gave work to actresses, chorus ladies who were wating for the next offer from JCW.
Obviouslyno wine list at the Cherry it was always a pot of tea. No tea bags!!! Hot water, little jug of milk.
Oh how I miss it.
I bet there were similar places in your state but wondered if any one else remembers this quaint gorgeous place.
It might be a stab in the dark because there might not be anyone who remembers it.
It was a cafe in Collins street down a kind of arcade. The waitresses were generally mature ladies in crisp clean uniforms. It was not so much a posh establishment but it had a charm long gone. It was also even for its time very reasonably priced.
The Wild Cherry was a kind of institution in Melbourne. The kind of menu you don't see today. Items like roast lamb with mint sauce, meat pies served with gravy real mashed potato and peas. The waitresses would come to your table and ask if you wanted tartar sauce with your fish. The salads were the kind our mums made, it had everything.
Desserts were wine trifle, apple pie etc.
As you left you paid this charming old effeminate man who sat on a huge podium behind his desk and old cash register. I was a much more handsome young man in those days and he would always smile saying "do come again sir, its always lovely to see you".
The wild cherry also gave work to actresses, chorus ladies who were wating for the next offer from JCW.
Obviouslyno wine list at the Cherry it was always a pot of tea. No tea bags!!! Hot water, little jug of milk.
Oh how I miss it.
I bet there were similar places in your state but wondered if any one else remembers this quaint gorgeous place.