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14/09/2026

Who ate at the Elite Café? 🏏 The real question—who didn't?

Angela—that's Mel's aunty, though she'd rather we said her younger sister—reckons probably half of Australia.

Test cricketers. Famous boxers. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. And a very long-haired Normie Rowe, who got a question from four-year-old Angela that she has never been allowed to forget. 😄

Angela Lathouras grew up in that café on Bourbong Street—and she's opening our Bundaberg show with the history of the Greek café families of this town.

There are a LOT of stories in this lady. Come for the music and stay for the nostalgia!

🎟 Saturday 19 September, 3pm—Moncrieff Entertainment Centre

Tickets $30. Walk in or book online. Or comment or DM 'TOUR' and we'll send you over the deets.

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The Bundaberg gals are gearing up! 🇬🇷 It's Melissa here. My mum Mavis, my younger sister Angela and gorgeous cousin Juli...
13/09/2026

The Bundaberg gals are gearing up! 🇬🇷 It's Melissa here.

My mum Mavis, my younger sister Angela and gorgeous cousin Julie Hay in their Girl From Greece t-shirts, ready for next Saturday 19 Sept at the Moncrieff.

(For clarity: Angela is actually my dad's younger sister. She has always had trouble with the A-word. 😄)

Angela's opening the show with the history of the Greek café families of Bundaberg — we spent the morning here filming her memories from the Elite.

She told us that nostalgia is actually a Greek word. Nostos — the return home. And algos — the ache. The pain of longing to go back.

She said she's proud and grateful that Katerini and I are taking them all back to the good old days. 🌹

Anyway — next Saturday 19 September, 3pm. Tickets are $30. Come and celebrate Bundaberg's Greek café history with us.

🎟 Get your tickies at the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre Walk in or online.

We are counting down the days. ❤️

20/08/2026

Meet the man who invented the bacon and egg burger—Harry Crether. He says it's a big claim but we believe him. Because the Greeks invented everything and this παλικάρι knows his food.

Harry doesn't mind a joke about himself either. He says his wife didn't just get a big fat Greek wedding—she also got a big fat Greek. 😂

He arrived in Lismore from Greece in 1948. He was 11 years old and couldn't speak a word of English. The kids at school made fun of him.

At 20 he bought the Wunderbar café—from the man who would later become his father-in-law. Those same kids who'd laughed at him? They were his first customers.

"They say things, but they don't mean it," he told us. He'd done the same thing himself as a boy in Greece—laughed at the Armenian kids for their broken Greek. "What you give is what you get."

He ran that café for 25 years and he did things his own way. No buns—two thick slices of toast, buttered before AND after so they'd go golden. Cut diagonally, so you got two burgers for the price of one. And the triple decker: rissole on one, bacon and egg on the other, steak on top. If you couldn't fit it in your mouth, you sat down with a knife and fork. 😄

He invented drinks nobody else was selling. Fruit cocktail. Fruit punch—a milkshake with so much fruit salad in the bottom you ate it as much as drank it. Witches brew. And he built a room on top of the shop for the jukebox turntable, because the floods kept coming and it was too heavy to lift.

Harry has been doing the Greek program on River FM for 35 years. He and Maria have been together over 50.

These are the stories at the heart of Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour.

Next stop 🌹 Byron Bay—5 September

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