Don't come to this cafe looking for a BLT.
Customers at a Brisbane, Australia, cafe will no longer be able to order bacon after building tenants complained about the smell, The Consumerist reported on Sunday.
Wintergarder center management sent a letter to Gramercy Coffee after the owners of Winnie Bridal allegedly said the smell of sizziling meat was getting into the store through the air conditioning vents.
Michael Yeung owns the upscale bridal store, with dresses ranging in price from $3,000 to $10,000, and has been in its Brisbane location since 1988.
Gramercy owner Mitchell Suchowacki said the complaint frustrated him and added that he has been serving bacon on breakfast bagels and toast for almost two years.
"The biggest thing was the shock of not knowing anything about it and then having this massive drama arise overnight," Suchowacki told the Courier Mail.
He said that while Yeung had been in contact with building management before, he hadn't ever complained about the smell previously.
After the complaint, Suchowacki said he toyed with other recipes to appease his neighbor, but decided to scrap bacon altogether.
"We have no relationship with the tenant upstairs and if we had just talked about it face-to-face we could have come to an arrangement to keep both parties happy," he said. "It's a shame because it places us in a bad light and we never knew anything about it."
A spokesperson for Wintergarden said that Gramercy's lease agreement has always barred cooking bacon.
"The cooking of bacon impacted the quiet enjoyment of another tenant in the center and therefore Gramercy was reminded of the items it was able to cook within its Edward Street tenancy without an extraction fan," the spokesperson said.
