A gift for The Last Slice
A usable content showcase, on us.
We hosted the Community Care Kitchen pop-up and $71,000 came through this room. Not a campaign we ran. A campaign we made space for, which is a much easier thing to do and it turns out that is most of what is needed. The people who cooked, served, queued and paid did the rest. Sydney Olympic Park showed up.
Halal certified. Seven days. 6am to midnight. We put that first because for a lot of you it is the first question, and you should not have to DM to find out.
Zaatar manoush at 6am is not breakfast. It is a whole cultural position. Out of the oven, folded, in the car, gone before Homebush Bay Drive.
Lebanese breakfast is a table, not a plate. Sujuk. Falafel. Fatteh. Manoush. Labneh with too much oil on it. Bread that keeps arriving. The rules, such as they are: - Nobody orders for themselves - Something arrives that nobody remembers ordering - The fatteh is finished first, every time - You leave two hours later Australia Ave, from 6am.
Toby's Estate, poured properly, at six in the morning. The coffee is not the reason anyone comes here and it is absolutely the reason some of you come back.
The Last Slice. It is in the name, so the pizza has to hold up.
Open until midnight. Which means we see the shift workers, the gym crowd at ten, the families after a game at the stadium, and whatever is happening at 11:40pm on a Saturday. Different city every few hours, same room.
Catering for a hundred people is a completely different job to serving a hundred people. The food has to survive a car, a lift, a foyer and forty minutes of nobody touching it, and still be worth eating. What we actually plan around: - Travel time, before anything goes in a tray - What holds heat and what should never be reheated - Enough for the people who did not RSVP - Halal certified, so nobody at the table has to ask Tell us the headcount and the hour.
Fresh juice at a place that also sells burgers is either a token gesture or it is not. Ours is not.
Homebush is coming. Soft arches, natural texture, filtered light, designed by @alai_architecture_interiors. Same food, more room.
Dolce Bakehouse & Gelato. Sweet moments start here. Gelato churned for the day, pastries baked on site, dessert cups, coffee, deli sandwiches for the people who need something savoury before they will admit they came for the gelato. Same owner as The Last Slice, two doors of the same idea.
Gelato is not ice cream with a better accent. Less fat, less air, served warmer, so the flavour actually lands instead of freezing your palate on the first spoon. That is why pistachio tastes like pistachio here.
Baked on site, which is a sentence a lot of places use loosely. Ours means the oven is behind that wall and the trays come out during trade.
The dessert cup is the most Sydney thing on our menu. Layered, oversized, engineered to be photographed, and genuinely good, which is the part people do not expect from something that looks like that. How they get built: - Base that stays crisp under everything above it - Gelato, not soft serve - One texture that crunches - Something poured at the end, in front of you Pick your layers.
Coffee and a pastry at 3pm is not a snack, it is a strategy.
Deli sandwiches at a gelato shop. We know how it reads on the board, and we know exactly what happens the first time someone orders one to keep their friend company while she picks a flavour. Order one.
Pistachio is the honest test of a gelato counter. Real pistachio is dull green and expensive. Bright green is a decision somebody made about the photograph instead of the flavour. Ours is dull green.
Nobody comes to a gelato counter alone. They come with a kid who has already decided, a partner who will "just have a taste", and one person genuinely reading the whole board. Which is why the queue is slow and we are not going to fix it. Sydney Olympic Park.
We make more gelato on a hot Tuesday than a cold Saturday, and it never stops being funny.
Two doors, Sydney Olympic Park. The Last Slice for breakfast at six, pizza at midnight, and catering in between. Dolce for everything after. Halal certified, both. See you at Australia Ave.
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