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Made in Stanmore
124 Percival St, Stanmore
NSW, Australia
Ph: 9569 5898
Wow what can I say other than I’ll get to the coffee later. Firstly I have to get this out there; these guys do the best… THE BEST… bacon and egg on Turkish in Sydney. If I am not having breakfast here at least one day a […]
Single Origin Roasters
60-64 Reservoir St, Surry Hills
NSW, Australia
Single Origin. Where to start?
OK, maybe I should preface my review by saying that I don’t particularly like this place BUT a lot of other people do…
Single Origin does a Fair Trade, single origin bean that is roasted on the premises. The smells are wonderful and watching […]
Gertrude & Alice
78 Oxford St, Paddington
Sydney, NSW, Australia
You’ve gotta love a cafe in a bookstore, as I loved Gertrude and Alice. Sure the staff ranged from fantastic to surly, sure it was hard to drag a pram up two flights of steep narrow stairs… but the cafe served a wonderfully made coffee in a great […]
Cafe Delizia
Shop 2, Hyde Park Towers
148 Elizabeth St, Sydney
NSW, Australia
This’ll teach me to enter a cafe becuase there are good looking waitresses working there.
Rushing from work to Hyde Park for some fresh air I almost walked straight past Cafe Delizia. The interior is cavernous… really big. It looked nice enough, it smelled like coffee […]
Oliver’s
Caltex Service Centre, Northbound F3 Freeway, Wyong
NSW, Australia
Imagine sitting in a big rig. You’re barrelling up a highway to the Central Coast of NSW with your little brother, a big, bald and tattooed truckie who would rather eat a whole fried chicken and greasy burger than eat vegetables “That’s what the food eat’s mate”.
We pulled […]
Citi (Westin Plaza)
1 Exchange St, Providence
Rhode Island, USA
Oh the pain. The pain… After enduring an 8 hour drive in abysmal conditions, a room in a crappy hotel and a travelling companion who I really had no more in common with than work I thought my luck had finally turned when I smelled coffee in the […]
aux deux Marie
4329 Rue Saint-Denis, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Let me preface this review by saying two things:
I was under sever nicotine withdrawal
I would like to thank the peeps at the CoffeeGeek forum for the tip.
OK. We bundled the boy into the pram and went cafe searching in Montreal. Contrary to what many say, I think this city […]
Boulangerie Le Croissant D’Or
2560, rue Laval, Nantès (Lac Megantic)
Quebec, Canada
I have been putting off reviewing this place for a year now. Mostly because it’s no fun to trash somones business.
HOWEVER!! Boulangerie Le Croissant D’Or is now under new ownership and I just had a great breakfast there. The change since the new owners took over […]
Alexandre Restaurant Français
1454, rue Peel, Montréal,
Quebec Canada, C H3A 1S8
Ph: 514-288-5105
I roamed the streets of Montreal, after a gruelling day of shaking hands with Republicans and business types at a seminar cum shmoozefest, looking for escape. With a cigarette hanging from my mouth and a swagger one can only associate with prostituting ones beliefs […]
La Bouffée d’Air - Café-Kayak
515, rue Principale,Piopolis
Québec, Canada
Téléphone: (819) 583-2587
Piopolis is a little town on the other side of the lake from where I live. A really cute little place with some stores by local artisans, a health civic pride and a population of 460 people. Like I said it’s small.
Nestled just up the road […]
Fanny Boulangerie Artisanale Et Patisserie
5526, rue Frontenac, Lac-Mégantic,
Quebec, Canada
There is a new sheriff in town, and he is one of the good guys. We have watched Fanny being built over the past month or so and were excited when we saw a roasting machine in the foyer. Read on…
The roasting machine is just a […]
Bondi Tratt
34 Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach
NSW, Australia
A good friend of mine used to work here for years. On and off she would leave to find a better place to work, and invariably come back realising that a lot of what she was searching for elsewhere was already at the Tratt. You see the Tratt is […]
Cafe Zuppa
36 Katoomba Street, Katoomba.
NSW, Australia
Situated at the top of the main drag of Katoomba, Zuppa has long been a favourite of mine on those weekend getaways to the Blue Mountains. The cuisine is Australian/Italian, the ambiance typically Blue Mountains relaxed and the coffee of a decent standard.
My favourite place to sit here is outside […]
Brulerie St Denis
3967 rue Saint-Denis, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
A bit of an institution is the Brulerie St Denis. Funnily enough it is located on rue St Denis in Montreal and serves and excellent cup. Enough of the obvious, let’s talk about the cafe and it’s coffee.
The interior is divided into two halves; the nice area where they […]
Cafe Santropol
3990 St-Urbain, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
What a fabulous place this is. This is definately one of my favourite cafes in Montreal. Let me get all the non-key data out of the way first.
They have a lush, green courtyard outside which is simply awesome for breakfast, lunch or a late stop in. The inside is more of […]
Boulangerie Au Pain Doré
1415, rue Peel, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Every now and then one experiences trepidation, dissatisfaction and then elation. This sums up my brief brush with Boulangerie Au Pain Doré.
Trepidation:
We were looking for a quick pastry and coffee after we left our hotel in Montreal and we happened across this little corner cafe. I entered its […]
Café Java U
4065 rue Saint-Denis, Montréal
Quebec, Canada
A hot day on rue Saint-Denis in Montreal saw Anne and I seeking refuge from the sun and a chilled cafe to lounge out in. We looked down the street and spied Café Java U. It screamed city cool with it’s bright but relaxed interior and groovy beats playing […]
Casse-Crepe Breton
1136 rue St-John, Vieux-Quebec
Quebec, Canada
Still reeling from the terrible coffee experience in baie-St-Paul, Anne-Renee and I made a beeline for Quebec City. We have walked past Casse-Crepe Breton several times and there has always been a queue outside. We even waited on several occassions but never actually had the patience to get in.
On this […]
Café Moderne
104 rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Baie-Saint-Paul
Québec, Canada
PH: (418)-435-3602
Anne-Renee and I decided to leave the small town we live in and head north to another small town. Go figure huh? After a four hour drive we arrived in Baie-Saint-Paul, it was late but the signs for a good coffee were all there. Lots of little art galleries, […]
Jed’s Café Bar
60 Warners Ave, North Bondi
NSW, Australia
Ph 9365 0022
Jed’s is a laid back kind of place with a mix of locals, backpackers and their pets sitting in or outside. The coffees here are tremendous. Except for the fact that they are a little hot, all the coffees I have had here were rich, aromatic […]
Swell
465 Bronte Rd, Bronte
NSW, Asutralia
(02) 9386 5001
Wow. Picture yourself sitting outside enjoying a great view of Sydneys Bronte Beach, sipping a great coffee or enjoying a lovely meal.
This is Swell…
Swell was voted in the Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Top 5 Cafes of Sydney’ and come night time turns into fabulous classy but […]
Campos Coffee
193 Missenden Rd, Newtown
NSW, Australia
My wife used to work for Will back when he owned “The Bean Counter” in Sydney. He taught her everything she knows about making coffee and was my mentor in the basics of good coffee making and presenting.
Wills new effort, well sort of new, is Campos Coffee […]
Concrete
224 Harris St, Pyrmont
NSW, Australia
I remember Concrete fondly from my time working and living in Sydney’s “silicon valley”. Concrete was one of the quality places that opened at the time and is still in business today, long after the majority of Web/IT firms have closed down and moved on.
The coffee here was always excellent, although […]
WellConnected Cafe
35 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
NSW, Australia
What a great little place this is. It was my absolute favourite when I lived in Glebe. As the name suggests it’s an internet cafe, but far from being packed of backpackers in a sterile little room the cafe is located on Glebe Point Rd in a turn of […]
Le Petit Tarte Cafe & Patisserie
219 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
NSW, Australia
9692-8739
A cozy, friendly little place that smells like freshly baked bread and coffee. What’s not to like? Anne-Renee and I often made a trip out of our way to pick up some baguettes or croissants and sit outside with a couple of reasonably good […]
digi.kaf
174 St Johns Rd, Glebe
NSW, Australia
(02) 9660-3509
Ah digi.kaf… We used to live across the road from this little gem in Sydney and Sunday morning breakfast became a solid tradition for us. The pancakes (potato or ricotta) and the coffee were a godsend in our otherwise bland little street. It was always a welcome relief […]
Badde Manors
37 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
NSW, Australia
Badde Manors by name, Bad Manners by nature… Outside of Utah, this is one of the best nachos I have ever had, but as I just said, the service is horrific. If your thing is being served by tattooed and dreadlocked ferals with attitude, then you’ll love this place.
If […]
Cafe Hernandez
60 Kings Cross Rd, Kings Cross
NSW, Australia
(02) 9331 2343
Hernandez is a Sydney institution. Located just off the Kings Cross red light district it is a strongly Spanish themed little hole in the wall.
Frequented by punks, old men, business types and backpackers it has a great blend […]
Brulerie Caffuccino
1700 rue King Ouest, Sherbrooke
Quebec, Canada
Caffuccino is part of a chain of 3 cafes in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. I’ve only ever been to the ones in Magog and Sherbrooke, the third being in Rock Forest, and have always had a good coffee experience.
My first visit to Caffuccino was a feats for the […]
