Chipiron mountain coffee. Yes, it’s a truck stop, but it’s clean, well-lit, and the food is actually quite good. Don’t be too put off that it shares its building with a McDonald’s, that’s par for the course
Coffee is made with an automatic machine for the shot, and then the milk is added. Surprisingly good, especially considering where we are, and the standards a café has to reach to sell coffee on the f3.
Update: Probably best to try Oliver’s instead: I think I caught them on an unusually good day.
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Really? My parents went there and they said it was terrible!
Olivers, also at the F3 service centre, ain’t bad, and is much better than normal truckstop coffee.
There’s only so much you can expect from coffee at a truck stop: this was quite drinkable, and so better than expected.
Is Olivers southbound or northbound? Coolabah is (as I said) in the McDonalds part of the stop.
I’ve been to both Olivers and Coolabah. Coolabah was very average (even for a truckstop) but I will admit I do miss Boston Market which was originally there. Mark is right, Olivers is quite good, but unfortunately I would rather go to McDonalds than Coolabah. Jury’s out? K
Olivers was southbound. Got a nice break in before we encountered the 10km traffic jam at Ourimbah. Gotta love the F3.
I was going to get Coke rather than risk service centre coffee, but Oliver’s is so ideologically pure that they don’t even sell it. It’s health food, juice, water, coffee. That’s it.
I’ll definitely try Olivers next time.
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