Perfectly Positioned - but not for Colefax's Haberfield retail play

Whatever 78 Ramsay Street is perfect for, it was not perfect for
the Colefax Lounge & Cafe.
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THE temporary refurbishment of the Colefax Lounge & Cafe looks to have become a permanent abandonment.

Signage erected over the September 15-16 weekend suggests the landlord of 78 Ramsay Street, Haberfield doesn't expect the former tenants to return.

The new signage replaces notices taped to the windows in the immediate aftermath of the outlet's closure late last month  which advised patrons that the Colefax cafe would be shut temporarily.

Those notices were removed abruptly last week and it seems Haberfield has lost a popular chocolatier and cafe operator.

The loss won't harm the prospects of long time local cocoa maestros Rino and Marisa Saffioti, who opened their first retail venture earlier this year at 129 Ramsay after two decades of wholesale success.

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