Inner-North Melb NIMBYs Are Mad At Florian Cafe For Letting Customers Line Up Outside Their Homes

NIMBYs in the inner-inner-north of Melbourne have butted heads with popular Carlton North cafe Florian and complained to the council about patrons waiting outside for takeaway single origins and fancy toast with boiled egg. Yarra City Council has received several complaints since November 2021 from residents of the two-storey Victorian terraces houses neighbouring the cafe on Rathdowne Street. The complaints lamented too many people were queuing outside their front gates. Honestly how could anyone be so selfish to STAND and WAIT for a coffee on a public street. The gall. I’m sickened by this disgusting behaviour. The lines of people waiting for takeaway had enraged the residents so much they have even threatened to take the venue owners to court. They claimed the cafe was trading beyond its boundaries because staff handed out coffees to people outside. But the council on Friday made a new attempt to resolve the dispute by installing a bright red decal on the footpath in front of the property next door that reads: “FLORIAN EATERY CUSTOMERS PLEASE DO NOT STAND HERE”. Of course it’s just a stern recommendation, though. The sign is not enforceable so no one can be fined for standing there. Obviously. The juxtaposition of the cafe’s French country farmhouse cottagecore aesthetic, the neighbours’ lovely Victorian lattice balconies and the angry capital letters on the footpath is just … you can’t make this stuff up.

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