Garden cafe at McGain's food store.

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Great Ocean Road


Snack among the foliage at this lovely sunlit cafe with a nursery-atrium locale. The menu is largely organic, using produce from the attached food store. As well as delicious breakfasts and lunches, it does great single-origin coffee roasted by Cartel in Geelong. It's left off the Great Ocean Road before you hit the Anglesea shops.


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