For homewares full of character, a morning kick-start coffee and a place to meet friends for lunch just a block away from Mona Vale Beach, visit Armchair Collective on Darley Street East. Surrounded by colours bursting in all directions, Armchair Collective invites guests to dine at tables found nestled among teapots and cushions, lampshades and restored designer armchairs, giving an intimate vibe at smaller tables or a community feel to larger share tables. A fresh, on-trend menu sees locals returning each morning to enjoy dishes like black quinoa and oat porridge with poached red fruits and crunchy buckwheat while the lunch crowd dine on housemade sweet potato-beetroot gnocchi with asparagus, green peas, beetroot, burnt sage butter, yellow beetroot puree and goats cheese mousse.