07/04/2026
Short Long Black turns eight years old today! EIGHT (8). A big, big age. Eight in coffee shop years equates to roughly four hundred years. Multiple refurbishments, countless generation-defining global crises, and a s**t through the letterbox. We’ve weathered it all and are still standing. It’s got us feeling nostalgic, but it’s also got us feeling immensely proud of everything we’ve accomplished here on Victoria Road.
Above, you’ll find memories sourced from the camera rolls of multiple staff members, past and present. Incredible, hard working, skilled, beautiful, hilarious people have worked and do work here. We’ve had some of the best coffee roasters in the world on our shelves, some of the most talented bakers in our kitchen, and the best baristas in the city on our bar. However.
You do not make it eight years without people making the very special choice to come in every single day and share a little chunk of time with you. It’s a decision so many of you have made, perhaps subconsciously, but it is literally what keeps this place going. It is you that has made us (Can we say this? We’re saying it!) a Southside institution. Dependable, solid, always open, always great. Just a flat white no sugar and a pain suisse, please. At the end of the day, this whole thing is mutual, and symbiotic. We’re there for you because you’re there for us.
We have seen customers’ children go from stomachs to prams to standing to school. We’ve seen customers leave the area and come back. House offers accepted and fallen through, new jobs, uni degrees started and finished, pets acquired and lost. We’ve maybe seen a few minutes of the best day of your life or maybe even your worst. You’d be surprised at how much life can happen in the fairly swift and trademarked SLB transaction. From sitting in, to queuing in the pandemic, to standing at the lean bar. Thanks for supporting it all. And if you’ve only visited once, that’s fine. But maybe stop by a bit more so we can do this for another eight years.
Happy birthday to us, and thanks to everyone to who has made SLB what it is. Come by today and help us celebrate! 🎉🎉🎉
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