The Monkey Bar Café: A Dog-Friendly Alfresco Café in Greenslopes

If you are craving for coffee and wondering where to could go with your kid and dog tagging along, then you might like to try The Monkey Bar Café at the rear side of the Annerley Junior Soccer field at 98 Victoria Terrace in Greenslopes.

Now on its fourth year in the business, The Monkey Bar Café is the perfect place for you to sip and enjoy your coffee whilst watching your child play because it is directly situated next to a lovely playground.

The Monkey Bar Cafe
Photo credit: The Monkey Bar Cafe/Facebook

With sturdy outside seating shaded by trees, the café is well-known among locals because of its location as well as its range of food and drinks.

It is most popular for its richly-flavored Genovese coffee, but there are other drinks available like milkshakes, iced coffee, mocha, ginger beer, smoothies, and iced tea.

Milkshakes come in delicious flavours such as Belgian chocolate, strawberries and cream, or vanilla bean. For smoothies, you have a choice of mango, mixed berry, banana, or groovy green.

MBC Menu
Photo credit: The Monkey Bar Cafe/Facebook

The café has an unpretentious menu. It offers all-day breakfast and lunch made from locally bought produce in support of local businesses.

Breakfast and lunch options include sliders and shoestring fries, buttermilk pancakes with fresh bananas, maple syrup, hazelnut dust or Nutella cream, bacon and eggs on English muffins, veggie deluxe paired with chunky avo, or spicy bruschetta.

Also, the café offers puppycinos and treats for the furry pal that you brought along.

Like their menu, The Monkey Bar Café is an unassuming place with a very relaxed atmosphere. It is the perfect place on a sunny day to catch up with a friend, the go-to place after a soccer match or training to refuel your kids, or a place where you can have a business breakfast meeting with your children and pets beside you.

But you should remember that it is basically an outdoor café so it may not be so amazing on rainy days.

The café is open seven days a week from 6:30 am to 1:30 pm.

For details, check their website or Facebook.

3 Simple Ideas for QT with Kids for Multi-tasking Greenslopes Mums

Mums need “me-time” too but let’s admit it — in these days of multi-tasking motherhood, that’s easier said than done. You cannot get more than a simple haircut because other services, like getting your hair coloured could simply take longer than your time allows. Or maybe you want to go out for a leisurely cup of coffee but have no option but to bring the kids with you. Here are three simple ideas for multi-tasking Greenslopes mums who want to get some of that elusive me-time in whilst still spending quality time with their kids.

Multi-tasking task #1 : Salon Date + Play Date

Lavelle Hair Workroom, a boutique salon at 82 Dunellan Street, will take care of your locks whilst the kids stay in the playroom. This special room is full of toys for kids of all ages and a range of DVD’s available for use. You may also bring your children’s favourite DVD’s so they will be entertained whilst you get your hair done.

Aside from the playroom, parents may reserve the private room equipped with free WiFi. It’s ideal for mums who wish to multitask for group bookings for girls night, mother groups, baby showers, and weddings.



Multi-tasking task #2 : Mum’s Caffeine Fix + Kids’ Brunch

The Monkey Bar Cafe along Victoria Terrace lets you sip your coffee peacefully or schedule a quick catch-up with a friend whilst the kids play in the huge playground right next to the cafe. They also have breakfast options for children, with choices like the mini pancake stack and mini fruit bowl. They serve lunch that children will love, like Ham and Cheese Toastie and Fish “N” Chips.

Multi-tasking task #3 : Fitness Walk + QT with Kids

Photo credit: Google Street View

For a family-friendly getaway, there’s the Thompson Estate Reserve at Juliette Street with great park facilities and safe bike paths. It is a nice place to relax and explore nature in a busy city with the family, getting in some quality time with the kiddos whilst scoring some fitness points in the great outdoors.



What’s On @ Greenslopes This Week

Here are the events to watch out for this week at Greenslopes.

Friday, 14 July

Tone & Strengthen Class for Women

Tickets: FREE

Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Venue: Park next to Monkey Bar Cafe, Baron Street, Greenslopes

Photo credit: Nina Wright/Everbrite

Me Time Fitness will host their free school holiday, “Tone & Strengthen Class for Women”, as a kick off for new regular classes in Greenslopes.

Exercise Physiologists Nina Wright will  be the class trainer. She created the program to provide a progressive growth for mums to get fit and make friends, while enjoying their “Me Time”.

 

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Friday, 14 July

Mums & Bubs Class

Tickets: FREE

Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Venue: Park next to Monkey Bar Cafe, Baron Street, Greenslopes

Photo credit: Me Time Fitness/Facebook

This free class is a window to the seven-week program of Me Time Fitness under class trainer Nina Wright.

The class will focus on strengthening pelvic floor muscles and getting a good range of cardio exercises. More than just a fitness class, mums will also foster their bub’s development through baby sign language, movement to nursery rhymes, and baby massage.

 

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Saturday, 15 July

Kombucha and Fermented Drinks Workshops

Tickets: $0 – $93.05

Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Venue: The Jam Pantry, 575 Logan Road #2, Greenslopes

Photo credit: nims xx/Eventbrite

The Jam Pantry owner and Chef de Cuisine nims xx organised a workshop about how to make kombucha for carbonation. There will be demos on how to make traditional ginger bug for healthy ginger beer, traditional sodas, and fermented honey.

 

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Saturday, 15 July

Tour de France Party

Tickets: $5.17

Time: 7:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.

Venue: Wheelpower Wellness, 15/76 Old Cleveland Road, Greenslopes

Photo credit: Wheelpower Wellness/Facebook

The Wheelpower Wellness will be hosting the “Tour de France Party”. Watch the tour and celebrate the biggest race, while sipping your drinks and having a great laugh.

 

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