Fleetwood Macchiato, Erskineville

Ha, love it! I immediately took a selfie with the sign out the front. FIeetwood Mac isn’t exactly on my way to the park, but if you go your own way, you might find the cafe of your dreams. I love little cafes set up in re-purposed heritage-style terraces – the little wooden doorway is up a stone step that […]

Sorrel Cafe & Bar, Broadway

For a cafe without a shopfront in the centre island of a shopping mall, Sorrel has a pretty amazing location. Sorrel floats in the middle of the top floor, with nothing but an arched glass ceiling and blue sky above. It’s also strangely quiet, suitably distanced from the majority of the hustle and bustle rushing about on the lower floors. […]

Shepherd’s Artisan Bakehouse, Broadway

Shepherd’s is surprisingly quaint, given its high-traffic shopping mall location. It’s more like a takeaway bakery with an espresso machine rather than a proper cafe, but Shepherd’s does what it does pretty well. They have a wide range of rustic-style baked stuff, and although pretty much everything must be baked off-site, the food still manages to carry a home-baked kind […]

Merchants of Ultimo, Broadway

Hands down, this is the best place to get your coffee and BB in Broadway. Merchants of Ultimo is a cute little indoor imitation piazza with a few different kids of authentic Italian fare available around a central seating area. The vendor at the front with all the crowd-attracting eye candy is a baker with a windowful of beautifully decorated […]

The Sip Inn, Erskineville

This place is very recognisable – you would’ve driven past it a thousand times and seen its huge, outdoor courtyard right in the middle of the Erko shopping stretch. A beautiful, shady spot to sit and soak in the ambience, for sure, but as I drew closer to the cafe, I noticed that the only people doing so were “elderly”. […]