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Opinion

Charles Purcell Writer September 16, 2025 — 5.00am

We have cricket season. Football season. Rugby league season. AFL season. Now, with the end of the wettest August in 27 years and the return of the sun’s rays, we have perhaps the start of another season: cafe season.

Unofficially starting in spring and continuing until mid-autumn, it’s the time when all the stars align and everything comes together to make our cafes sublime: the sunshine, the seasonal ingredients, the coffee made from beans from all over the world, the vibe, the views.

Evidence of the opening of the new cafe season was everywhere in my suburb of Mosman on the weekend. Just about every cafe was packed to the rafters, with patrons eager to enjoy the emerging sunshine, cappuccinos in one han

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