The Best 5 Café in Sydney

Sydneysiders are café people. We’re constantly searching for the city’s best coffee, we won’t bat an eyelid shelling out more than $30 a head for brunch, and we love nothing more than donning our finest sport-luxe activewear and catching up with mates on a weekend morning over porridge, muesli, hotcakes, fritters, eggs and overpriced sourdough.

1. One Another

One Another is the neighbourhood café that every suburb longs for. Everything on the shapeshifting all-day breakfast menu clocks in at less than $20, and seasonal produce at peak freshness is always a guarantee. In autumn, that might mean an elegant spin on fruit toast with tender cubes of spiced apple, ricotta and rosemary. Come spring, asparagus appears alongside perfectly poached eggs, crisp potatoes and rich miso butter. The Sample coffee is on point, as are the irresistible housemade pastries. Good morning, indeed.

2. Edition Coffee Roaster Haymarket

The striking, dramatic and very pared-back Scandi-Japanese aesthetic here is impressive enough, but then out comes that signature soufflé pancake: whipped to within an inch of its life, risen high in the oven like a phoenix and finished with toppings that range from mango, peach and cream cheese to sencha cream, rhubarb and elderflower. The dish has a 20-minute wait time, but boy is that time well spent.

3. Single O Surry Hills

This Surry Hills institution made big waves in 2019, with a slick refurb, the installation of a self-service batch brew bar and a serious menu update that reads like a glossary of native Australian ingredients, executed with restaurant-level technicality. If this is the future of Australian breakfast, things are looking bright.

4. Circa Espresso

You’re here for the Ottoman eggs, are you? You and everybody else. It’s a day starter that’s achieved cult status in this breakfast-loving town like so few dishes can, and it proudly puts Parramatta on the map as a breakfast destination. Not a fan of creamy labne layered with fried eggplant, brown butter, crisp sage, crunchy leeks and poached eggs? Fret not. It’s all killer, no filler – and that includes the coffee, roasted in-house.

5. Paramount Coffee Project

Paramount is always pumping, and it’s no mystery why. Not only is it housed in one of the city’s sexiest Art Deco buildings, in one of its buzziest neighbourhoods, but the team also has the food, coffee, design and service brief down to a science. On the menu, there’s a bit of Japan, a tad of Korea, a hint of L.A. and a nod to the American South – and that’s exactly what makes it the kind of Sydney café we can’t get enough of.

Source from Time Out editors.