It was the start of Sydney’s first Covid lockdown, and James Meek, 38 and Cliff Baskin, 32, co-founders of cafés Bennett St Dairy and sister spot Blair Street Dairy in Sydney’s Bondi, faced an empty cafe and a fridge full of cookie dough that was “waiting to be shaped and molded into cookies.”
Just a few weeks earlier, both their popular venues buzzed with Bondi locals and their pups, lattes in one hand, phone in the other. There were lines for brunch, as well as eager purchases of their famous chewy-doughy-melty choc-chip cookies.
It was the start of Sydney’s first Covid lockdown, and James Meek, 38 and Cliff Baskin, 32, co-founders of cafés Bennett St Dairy and sister spot Blair Street Dairy in Sydney’s Bondi, faced an empty cafe and a fridge full of cookie dough that was “waiting to be shaped and molded into cookies.”
Just a few weeks earlier, both their popular venues buzzed with Bondi locals and their pups, lattes in one hand, phone in the other. There were lines for brunch, as well as eager purchases of their famous chewy-doughy-melty choc-chip cookies.
