Sydney has been rabbitting on for a while now about a Laneways Business Development Program, aiming to match Melbourne’s cute little warren of Italian cafes, small stores, bakeries and so on, which is having some good effects with small bars like Size Matters being able to – gasp! – serve wine without converting into a beer barn first.

But looking at Melbourne  haunts like Centre Place below, you have to think they’ll need a few decades to catch up with this kind of cool … as a side note, that’s one of favourite cafes, Cafe No.5, over on the left. Mmm, muffins and coffee and newspaper …

Putting this headline in the “Entertainment” section just seems a bit inappropriate.