If you’re walking through Victoria Park and all you can smell is burnt toast, don’t worry, you’re not having a stroke, it’s just the Toby’s Estate mega roastery roasting away. The cafe here at the roastery is very cool, offering special tasting events and other fun things, so their cafe is inside out – the pick up counter is up […]
Toby’s Estate, Chippendale
Firestone, Marrickville Metro
Oooooh wholemealy! Said no-one ever. Except the banana bread at Firestone really was wholemealy good. It was hearty, oaty and a bit coconutty, definitely made with wholemeal flour, but without that overpowering floury taste. Excellent! I actually bought the banana bread for the babies while I treated myself to an espresso-flavoured Thicc cookie, but it was so good I ended […]
Pasture, Balmoral Beach
Pasture is a bit of a fancy place in a bit of a fancy location. Not quite fancy enough to be considered posh, but definitely fancier than your average suburban coffee place. Notice I didn’t use the word “cafe” – after having tried more enough “coffee places”, not everywhere that sells coffee is a cafe in my books. But Pasture […]
Vitaland, Alexandria
Vitaland *shudder*. If you can get over the PTSD, maybe you can consider Vitaland a cafe, and not just a place to park your kids for an hour. Let’s face it, the cafe here is pretty much incidental, existing solely within a huge kids indoor play facility. It’s an amazing place – we came for the little one’s birthday and […]
The End of King, Newtown
Oooh, looks like there’s someone new in town… The End of King looks fantastic and I only just found out it was here! There was some good music pumping and fun vibes happening, with a big rustic counter covered with a big rustic display of phenomenal baked goods. But sadly, amongst it all, no banana bread! I opted for a […]
Well Bean Cafe Espresso, RPAH Medical Centre
Well this is depressing. The darkly-carpeted, cool-lit building foyer looks like it hasn’t been renovated since the 80s and there are long rows of chairs seating elderly patients who are extra cantankerous for having to wait. But none of that is Well Bean’s fault – the name is cute and the service is, understandably, especially calm and polite. I would’ve […]
Stitch Coffee, Ultimo
When I first visited Stitch, I was enamoured with the extensive coffee menu and huge range of coffee paraphernalia. The building is heritage-chic with great little seating spaces and I browsed through their quirky merchandise while I waited. Then when I tried to write up this post, I realised all I could remember were the cool products and I had […]
The Kiosk, Sydney Park
I love on-location cafes, like Redleaf Cafe, that are legitimate cafes in their own right but are also right where you want to be. You come for the location, but a good on-location cafe is a bonus. Unfortunately, I’m at Sydney Park way too often, and the kiosk, creatively named The Kiosk, isn’t quite the fantastic bonus I wish it […]
Shenkin, Erskineville ⭐
I have a bit of a soft spot for Shenkin Erskineville because I’ve just been coming here since the very beginning, and any restaurant that can maintain such consistency over so many years is worth its weight in gold. I first remember going to Shenkin on a regular basis back when I was in uni. It had only recently opened […]