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Proud Mary Coffee

Australian coffee company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ130240304
Source-derived summary

Proud Mary Coffee is an Australia-based coffee company that also operates two cafes in the United States. The business was established in Collingwood in 2009. In Portland, Oregon, Proud Mary Café operates on Alberta Street in northeast Portland. Another location operates in Austin, Texas. Proud Mary has garnered a positive reception.

Description

Proud Mary is based in Melbourne. In Australia, Proud Mary has served dandan noodles as well as pancakes with lemon curd and eucalyptus.

The northeast Portland location operates on Alberta Street in the Vernon neighborhood. The menu has included avocado toast on sourdough, a potato hash (with bacon, eggs, and cream sauce), and yogurt with granola. The restaurant has also served ricotta and vanilla pancakes, meat pies, a pork belly satay sandwich, juices, and smoothies.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Proud Mary Coffee” as australian coffee company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Proud, Mary and Coffee can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as australian coffee company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q130240304. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Proud Mary Coffee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.