Discover Canberra: A food guide for Australia’s capital
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Walking from my hotel to the café DOP, I braced against the chilly morning air. I was on my way to get my morning cuppa, and a friend who had once lived in the city recommended it.
The café has more than just caffeine to offer, serving up rustic Italian street food like a mortadella piadina (an Italian flatbread) and ricciarelli (chewy almond cookies). Even in two-degree weather, the walk-up window has regulars waiting for their turn, breath turning to ice as they order. It’s my last day in Canberra, Australia’s capital and I managed to have exceptional espressos on a daily basis.
Whether at Barrio Coffee Collective in the neighbourhood of Braddon, or Doubleshot in the suburb of Deakin. Great coffee may seem like it’s par for the course in Australia, where the flat white is as good as a national drink, but in the capital—there’s a lot more to eat and drink. Most memorably, at Beltana Farms in the rural suburb of Pialligo, there’s the opportunity to go truffle hunting, but only between mid-June and mid-August.
My visit didn’t coincide with harvest time, but it was fascinating to learn how the spores have been planted at the base of oak and hazelnut trees with the farm yielding 60kgs of truffles during the season. Drake, the English Springer Spaniel is the property’s MVP as he seeks out the earthy mushroom with his well-honed skills. Owner Alice O’Mara says, “Every season we do a hunting-tasting or just a hunt.
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