Our Greek Café Story
Two families.
Two cafés.
One stage.
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Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour
Girl From Greece presents Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour—a 75-minute live music show woven with the true stories of two Greek-Australian café families.
Mel Lathouras’s family ran the Elite Café and Café Royal in Bundaberg from 1920. Katerini Manolatos’s family ran Feros & Feros in Byron Bay from the 1920s. Both families fed their towns for decades. Now their granddaughters are bringing those stories to the stage.
Featuring their stellar band performing Greco Retro Jazz—jazz standards with Greek lyrics, Greek classics reimagined, and original arrangements—Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour is part concert, part family history, and all heart.
The 2026 tour
The tour launched on 2 May at the Thomas Dixon Centre in South Brisbane, as part of Paniyiri Greek Festival’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Both shows sold out.
In June it travelled to Studio 188 in Ipswich. And then it went somewhere Mel and Kat had never expected to sing.
On 5 September the show played the Byron Theatre, a few streets from where Kat’s family ran Feros & Feros. It sold out. Two weeks later the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre presented the show in Bundaberg, in the town where Mel’s family ran the Elite and the Café Royal.
Four theatres. Two family towns. And, after every show, a queue of people waiting to tell Mel and Kat about their own café stories—from the family who ran it to what they ordered without fail.
Where to next
Mel and Kat are taking the show to more regional stages, honouring the Greek café families who helped shape this country. Join the mailing list and you’ll hear first.
If you program a venue or festival and would like to talk about presenting the show, get in touch.
Home to Byron
Listen to Mel and Katerini — and the Feros girls, Kos and Eleni — chatting with Bridie Tanner at ABC North Coast about growing up behind the counter at Feros & Feros café on Jonson Street, Byron Bay.
Established 1923. Still remembered.
As heard on
ABC Radio Brisbane
We had the best time chatting with Sally Rope on
ABC Radio Brisbane - sharing our family
café stories, hearing your café memories call in live, and maybe dropping a little family theory about Passiona along the way.
Have a listen.
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Rooted in a profound appreciation for family, friendship, and community and an evolving relationship with Greek music, Girl from Greece emerged to celebrate our collective stories through a mixed tape of jazz, folk, 50s-70s pop, and classical music.
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