For top-notch food and drink, there’s an eclectic selection. Café Bacino and Three Queen Bees offer great coffee, Via Roma offers a true taste of Italy with pastries and sweets, while the Yannis Tavern serve Greek cuisine.
Demographically Balwyn has been a suburb of young families and high income professionally employed people. It’s sophistication has always kept this suburb in great demand.
Historically the suburb has been known for its large luxury housing and large land sizes. Many homes have indulged with swimming pools, tennis courts and wide landscaped gardens.
Balwyn schools are always a talking point. There are a number of highly reputable schools in the area.
Greythorn Primary School serves the educational needs of families in the area of North Balwyn. The school opened in 1953 and occupies a site of just over two hectares with sweeping views to the city.
Situated in the inner eastern suburb of Balwyn, Fintona, a non-denominational school, caters for girls only from Prep to Year 12 and offers a co-educational early learning program for girls and boys. The International Baccalaureate is taught from ELC to Year 4.
Balwyn High School has an exemplary tradition of academic excellence. It has an outstanding reputation for fostering intellectual growth and personal development as a foundation of future success for all students.
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