Snowy Mountains Part 2: Jindabyne
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Birchwood
Located on Gippsland Street, Birchwood is popular among foodies, known for their attractive, photo-worthy food presentations. They’re open seven days and serve Axis Rosters beans, a creation from right here in Canberra.
The busy Birchwood kitchen producing colourful plates of mouth watering tucker.
Using fresh, seasonal produce, the big ticket items on the menu consist of green pesto eggs, spiced dahl, apple and raspberry sweet treat, snowy mountains smoked trout, Three Mills breads, smashed avo with roast potato and damn good burgers. Keep an eye out for their daily specials, which have a history of being coconut, cinnamon + mango porridge, and smoked salmon on dark rye. YUM.
Get in early, or be prepared for a short wait, because it’s extremely popular during peak season!
Images: @birchwood_jindabyne_
The Red Door Roastery
Cosy and inviting, walking into The Red Door Roastery feels like a big warm hug. The coffee is fantastic and roasted on-site by the family-owned business.
Image: facebook.com/TheRedDoorRoastery
Image: facebook.com/TheRedDoorRoastery
Apart from a fab chino, there is also breakfast, lunch and homemade sweets to enjoy. It’s ironic, but look for the big red door!
Serge’s
Fat juicy burgers, monster muffins, thickshakes, sambos, fresh juices, salads, hot chips. Serge’s may be a small hole in the wall, but they always deliver huge flavours and a satisfying feed.
Image: facebook.com/sergescafe
Image: facebook.com/sergescafe
You can sit down on the big tables out front, or if you’re keen to get on the road to beat the snow traffic, most dishes can be taken away. My go-to is the Cajun chicken burger after a big day on the slopes.
The Market
If bacon and eggs aren’t your thing, and you prefer to get your sustenance from wholefoods and vegan treats, The Market is for you. As well as providing a relaxed café section with lounges and coffee tables, the rest of the store is an ethical grocer with shelves full of organic beauty products, cookware and all sorts of yummy snacks.
You will find The Market on Snowy River Avenue.
Large self-serve tubs of organic dried fruit, nuts, pastas, flours, chocolates and superfoods sit against the back wall.
A huge range of fresh fruit and vegetables spill out of weaved baskets in the middle of the room, ripe for the pickin’!
Located at Nuggets Crossing.
Parc Café Jindy
Did you know there is a sun-drenched, bustling café hidden within the bluestone walls of the Jindabyne Information Centre? Fat Poppy coffee from Marrickville, Sydney is the roast of choice at the popular location, and while you wait, take a look at the historic artefacts encased in glass displays from around the Snowy Mountains area.
Busy barista in front of the stone fireplace.
High ceilings allow natural light to spill over brunchers!
Creamy porridge topped with macadamias and greek yoghurt at Parc.
Fetta and avo smash from Parc.
The large counter and coffee machine are positioned in front of an impressive stone fireplace that has been transformed into shelving. Brekkie is until 11.30am, and you can grab some avocado + fetta smash, creamy porridge, house-made granola, corn fritters or baked beans on organic sourdough toast. From 12pm, some lunch eats include a southern fried chicken burger, corned beef Rueben, red braised pork belly salad and beer battered fish.
Fresh juices and smoothies are available, as well as wine and beer! Hooray!
shop
Design + Detail
This luxurious, mountain-inspired homewares shop is absolutely stunning. A huge range of top of the line brands are graciously displayed such as Akubra, Elk, Bow and Arrow, Once Was, Southern Wild Co, Lisa B, Twine and Twig and many more.
Be prepared to go home with a wave of inspiration to transform your home into a luxe alpine mountain cabin! Located at Jindabyne Town Centre.
Image: @designdetail
Image: @designdetail
Ebony + Chrome
Independent fashion boutique Ebony + Chrome is a super cool space specialising in the latest brands of men and women’s clothing. Founder Sam says the fashion styles are inspired by tartan, 90's layers, old-school rock n' roll, thorny roses, misty mountains, bonfires, beautiful tattoos and heavy metal hardware.
Slightly alternative brands like Thrills, All About Eve, Status Anxiety, Kester Black, Nana Judy, Rollas and Canberra-based Landspeed Records brand, Things We Lost. The shopfront is spacious and light, with cool leather lounges and crisp white walls. There’s always new stock rolling through the door and great sales happening all year round.
If you can’t get to the shopfront on Snowy River Avenue, they have a great online store.
Time II Ride
Time II Ride caters for all your skate and snowboarding needs. Snowboards, boots + bindings, dope snow jackets, skateboards, beanies and awesome streetwear.
The walls are bursting with the latest men and women’s street and snow wear brands from Roxy, DC, Billabong, Rusty, Saga, Yuki Threads, Volcom and Element……just to name a few.
Located at Jindabyne Town Centre.
