GG espresso - north sydney
Spartan in its furnishings, with simple chairs and tables and a concrete floor, this is a café where you can also buy rugby merchandise… Indeed, you can exchange ten buy-nine-get-one-free cards for a free t-shirt: that’s $270 worth of coffees first, though. Did I mention that the [...]
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Iffy café, north sydney
Shp 8/ 83 Mount St North Sydney. On mount st, below fitness first. Calima coffee;really fast service, and a range of indoor and outdoor seating. Coffee was pleasant, with no bitterness.
Update: They’ve changed to piazza d’oro, and this is the place where I buy decaf most days, on [...]
Fig fine foods, tower square, north sydney
Fast, efficient service. One of the few places still open after 4,on a weekday. Another piazza d’oro café.
Red mango patisserie, north sydney
Also in Greenwood Plaza (and there are a lot of espresso machines in a small building) is this patisserie, that also sells quite good coffee. Not sure that the red mango website is all that helpful to them: a lot of 404’s (the html version of the [...]
Peat’s canteen, peat’s island
As you can tell by the photo, this isn’t a place that you’d normally think of as a cafe: it’s a Pacific Highway road-side service station, and on the day we visited, they were out of petrol (every so often, a big 4WD would pull in, see the [...]
Starfish café, nambucca heads
This was a rushed visit: I’d already used up all my cafe-time, but couldn’t resist stopping in for a quick cup at the other end of town. Looks like a good spot, and the coffee was quite pleasant (piazza d’oro coffee).
Nambucca bookshop internet cafe
After walking the streets of town on Saturday afternoon with no success, I resolved that Sunday morning would be a chance to sit down with a coffee. I ended up here first, sitting on the balcony, partly in the sun. The coffee on first taste was disappointing, but [...]
Whirlwind trip to Nambucca heads leaving Saturday morning, heading back Sunday afternoon. Somehow managed to get through all the driving without significant incident, and while still eating (for the most part) healthy food!
Café crema, north sydney
Located underneath fitness first, overlooking the Pacific Highway, and across from Greenwood Plaza. A pleasant spot to eat in; has changed hands and had 100% staff turnover during my two years here: the new manager is friendly and polite: there’s always a welcome to be had. Takeaway breakfast [...]
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