It’s a match made, if not in heaven, then certainly in the 19th Century.
The 1892 Hopetoun Tea Rooms, a much-loved Melbourne institution, has signed a lease on the 1859 Kozminsky building on Bourke Street, close to the Bourke Street Mall in the city centre.
“The tea rooms had been looking around for a while for a suitable premises after they left The Block Arcade following a disagreement with the owners,” said Fitzroys director Rick Berry, who facilitated the deal.
“Now they’ve settled on the lovely historic Kozminsky building and are taking over all the space over three levels. It’s a real beauty and it’s going to be lovely to have a Victorian-style tea room in a Victorian-style building, and it’s a really positive result for Melburnians to see business coming back so strongly…”