Neighbours

14/06/2026

👩‍🍳 Calling all cooks, bakers and kitchen superstars 🌸

Entries for our cooking competition are open and we’d LOVE to see what you create.

Whether you’re known for your famous cake, best slice, crowd favourite jam or family recipe — now’s your time to shine.

This year's cake is a beautiful Pear and Ricotta Almond Cake and has been designed by Angelle Boucher from Cafe Neighbours in the heart of McLaren Vale.

For those that want to try their hand at something different, we have a number of different categories to choose from, including a new category this year:

🎉 THE GREAT ALMOND COMMUNITY BAKE-OFF: SCHOOLS, CLUBS & BUSINESSES CHALLENGE 🎉

This category requires just a single entry representing a school, club, organisation, or business. Each entry may be any baked creation, must feature almonds as a key ingredient, and should reflect the spirit, creativity, fun and identity of the participating group. Completely novel almond-inspired creations are all welcome!

Visit the Rec Park website for more information on the competition, and if you're keen to be involved, fill out this form to let us which category you will be entering.
👉 https://form.jotform.com/261480451246858

We don't envy the judges, but we can't wait to see all the delicious creations!

https://willungarecpark.com.au/almond-blossom-festival/

12/06/2026

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📣 WE’RE GROWING: ASSISTANT CHEF NEEDED
We’re looking for an Assistant Chef to join our kitchen team at Neighbours. We’re a growing café in McLaren Vale serving sourdough crumpets, specialty coffee and house-made food.

Working alongside Head Chef Angelle Boucher, you’ll be involved across café service, food preparation, cake production and our signature sourdough crumpet production.

Day to day your role will include:

- Food preparation and service
- Cake and pastry production
- Sourdough crumpet production
- Kitchen organisation and workflow
- Maintaining quality and consistency across daily operations

We’re looking for someone with previous kitchen experience who works efficiently under pressure and can manage multiple tasks. Organised and reliable, with a genuine pride in their work. Someone who enjoys being part of a small collaborative team and is keen to grow with a developing business.

This role would be 25–37 hours per week for the right person.

To apply, please email a short introduction and your CV to [email protected]

📍402 Main Road, McLaren Vale

11/06/2026

📣 WE’RE HIRING: BARISTA & FRONT OF HOUSE
Neighbours is a growing café in McLaren Vale serving sourdough crumpets, specialty coffee and house-made food, and we’re looking to add to our front-of-house team.

This role suits someone who genuinely enjoys hospitality and takes pride in making people feel welcome. Coffee experience is important, but hospitality comes first. Coffee knowledge and workflow we can work on together. If you enjoy looking after people, work well under pressure, and bring warmth, professionalism and consistency to every shift, we’d love to hear from you.

Day to day your role will include:

- Coffee preparation
- Customer service
- Taking orders and operating POS
- Food running and table service
- Opening and closing procedures
- Maintaining a clean and organised café
- General café duties including dishes and supporting the wider team where required

Ideally this role would be 3–5 days per week for the right person. Previous hospitality experience preferred.

To apply, please email a short introduction and your CV to [email protected]

📍402 Main Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia

09/06/2026

Winter’s showing up on the menu this week. Smashed avocado with native herb dukkah. Baked apple with salted caramel and crumble. House-made persimmon jam. At Neighbours we honour what’s ready, using what’s in season means peak flavour, you can taste in every bite. Crumpets are ready, come try them.

Monday - Friday 8am-2:30pm | Kitchen Closes 2pm
Saturday 8am-2pm | Kitchen Closes 1:30pm

📍402 Main Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia

07/06/2026

Closed Monday 8th June for the public holiday. See you Tuesday for more crumpets and coffee! 🫶

04/06/2026

How do you have your Neighbours crumpets at home? (And more importantly who gets the last one in the pack?)

Your weekly ritual. Six sourdough crumpets, fermented for 72 hours, ready to take home. The ones you lined up for at the markets, now you can grab them here, any weekday you need them and Saturdays.

Toast them warm, spread the butter thick. Jam, honey, Vegemite? Or one of each? Whatever feels right. They’re built to be shared, to be savoured, to become part of your week.

Grab a 6-pack and take Neighbours home with you.

Available Monday - Friday 8am-2:30pm and Saturday 8am-2pm.

📍 402 Main Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia

03/06/2026

Thanks for sharing our story Sitchu Adelaide ☕️

What started in a Paris cafe has now found a permanent address in McLaren Vale — and if you've queued at markets across Adelaide for these sourdough crumpets, you already know the drive south is worth it... Tap for details 👉 https://ebx.sh/MAH4EE

📸 Neighbours

02/06/2026

Neighbours is a gathering place. Families, cyclists stopping by after their ride, people discovering us for the first time and regulars returning, conversations filling the room, the energy unmistakeable. This is what happens when a space is built with connection at its heart.

Angelle and Daniel built this intentionally. Not just a café, but a place where people gather around a table with good food at the centre of it all. They learned this in Paris, and they’re deepening it here in McLaren Vale. A gathering place is built first by hands, then shaped by community who comes to enjoy it.

You’re shaping it right now. With every return visit. Every friend you bring. Every family gathering or reason for celebration. You’re not just using the space, you’re part of what makes this space feel alive.

Monday - Friday 8am-2:30pm | Kitchen Closes 2pm
Saturday 8am-2pm | Kitchen Closes 1:30pm

📍 402 Main Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia

29/05/2026

Make Neighbours part of your Saturday ritual. ☕

We’re excited to share that as of this weekend, we will be adding Saturdays into the mix. So gather your favourite people and come join us for celebratory crumpets, coffee and cake.

We’ll be open Saturday 8am-2pm. Kitchen closes 1:30pm.

Since opening, we’ve been met with such generosity. Familiar faces from our market days finding us again, people travelling to be here, families and locals making this their space. Your support has been everything.

This weekend, there’s more to discover. Beyond the butter and jam, we’ve created two savoury crumpets. One with scrambled eggs, house-made chutney and parsley oil, and secondly with butter bean purée, mushrooms and poached egg. Each one built with the same intention and care as everything else.

Plan your Saturday with us at 📍 402 Main Road, McLaren Vale

28/05/2026

You take a bite and suddenly, you know what 72 hours of precision, craft and care taste like.

The crumpets may be presented simply on a plate. But there is so much depth in that simplicity. From the butter we’ve cultured ourselves to everything that sits alongside it, each element chosen to build flavour, not just sit on top. Everything serves a purpose.

The plate arrives at your table. The cultured butter melts into all the nooks as you spread it on the crumpet. And suddenly all the work converges. The slow fermentation, the hands at work, the toppings we’ve crafted in house, in one single bite.

Come in and taste what patience and precision becomes. We’ll be here.

Monday to Friday 8am-2:30pm | Kitchen Closes 2pm
Saturday 8am-2pm | Kitchen Closes 1:30pm

📍 402 Main Road, McLaren Vale