Rebecca Jane

Nundah Village has so much potential: cute little village-style street sequestered from the nearby main road, quaint old store fronts lining it.... Word has it the rents are overly high which I presume is the reason it's currently populated mainly by cafes, gyms, massage and medical. Not that the cafes are bad, and there's the best little bar in town there at Fitz and Potts; but except for a cocktail or two at the latter, the village remains not really much of a destination. The strip used to be more worth a visit with a knick-knacks shop and a plant shop and a gelati outlet and (this one will mark me a bit older!) a tea house, which all attracted a more varied crowd. God knows who drinks all that coffee (though I understand some of it's good), but I bet if they're local workers they'd love to do incidental gift and personal shopping at lunch there too; and I'd certainly be happy to do the same on weekends, especially while Toombul's out of action. Seems like Nundah Village's big chance to turn into something; will it grab or squander it? A couple of notable other options are local (Italian restaurant, patisserie) but this sort of thing should be in the village and you'd have a street you wanted to be on. Suburb meantime enjoys convenient public transport options with two train stations, and is good for park-oriented recreation due to being on Kedron Park Brook.