Melbourne’s Cibi Cafe
Cibi, in Japanese meaning “a little one,” is exactly what you feel like when taking your chopsticks to your breakfast on a sunny Saturday morning in the backstreets of oh-so-cool Collingwood, Melbourne. It’s an exciting new experience tucking into a bowl of soba noodles for breaky or wandering around the Japanese trinket store connected to the café. Cibi have created a space full of sensory delights where you can dawdle and daydream, bringing out the inner cibi in all of us.
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