Booln Booln Cafe
The gum-tree fringed Surf Coast Highway cafe spotlighting First Nations ingredients.
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Between Torquay and Geelong, Booln Booln is a gum tree-fringed cafe for road trippers to put on their radar. With a menu that spotlights First Nations ingredients, it’s the first venue of Troy and Cerisa Benjamin, founders of tea company Blak Brews. Since 2023, they’ve been creating cuppas featuring kakadu plum, quandong, desert lime and other native Australian ingredients.
The cafe is part of the Wathaurong Booln Booln Cultural Centre, which is set on bushland with a wildlife sanctuary attached.
Get jaffles including four-hour kangaroo ragu and wattleseed dukkah, or lemon myrtle-spiked chimichurri chicken. For kids, there are classic toasties and roo sausage rolls. On Fridays, the Outback High Tea ($60) includes treats like salted caramel-Vegemite macarons and saltbush-pepperberry quiches plus bottomless tea and a wildlife sanctuary visit.
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Emma Breheny – Emma is Good Food’s Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor and editor of The Age Good Food Guide.