Cafés We Love

Everyone has their favourite place to get a coffee and we are no exception. We have compiled a list of some of our favourite coffee spots that we’re sure you’ll like.

Don’t forget to regularly check this page for more “newly discovered” cafés we love.

Epitome Cafe Restaurant

Epitome Cafe Restaurant

Shop 1, 23-25 Burns Bay Rd
Lane Cove NSW 2066

Epitome, Lane Cove’s Premier Restaurant, has the dining experience to suit your needs. From our large alfresco dining area in the leafy plaza, where your kids can play on the shaded turf, to our casual downstairs, where you are able to partake of a relaxing cold ale, or the formal upstairs dining room and balcony, we have it all.

Our cuisine is Modern Australian and as such, we endeavor to provide a range of dishes that can tempt the most discerning of tastes. With Kangaroo, pasta, beef, chicken, seafood, vegetarian and more, I’m sure we have the meal for you.

From 8.30 every day we operate as a café with great Lavazza coffee and extensive breakfast and lunch menus and after 6pm we revert to our full restaurant menu.

We are fully licensed with a primary service authorisation, which allows you to have a drink without food, as well as being BYO for wine only.

Pearl Oyster

114 Miller Street, Preston
Melbourne

Located along a busy shopping strip in Melbourne’s North and offering a relaxed and funky atmosphere is Pearl Oyster - a favourite with the locals.

Pear Oyster offers all that you would expect from a great café, welcoming and friendly staff that deliver great service and most importantly a perfect coffee every time.

A spacious courtyard out back scattered with banana lounges makes it ideal to relax and let the day slowly pass you by.

Open Mon – Sun 8am to 4.30pm (closed Tuesday)

Mojo Music Café

81 Brisbane Street Launceston
Tasmania

Mojo Music Café is renowned for excellent coffee and customer service, delivered by blonde bombshell baristas Kate and Kristy, whose fun personalities drag in the regulars by the droves. The girls have been trained by local roaster Peak Coffee, which provides fresh beans every week from ethical coffee growing regions of the world.

The deli cabinet is always full of sweet and savoury treats created from fresh produce out of Tassie’s famous food bowl.

Mojo Music is a great retreat for business people to have a quick chill out during their busy schedules, taking in some good food and coffee while listening to the great vibes coming from the music store.

Reviewed by Café Culture Issue 19, 2009

Café Pronto WA

Cnr Pinjarra Rd & Mandurah Tce
Mandurah WA

Great food, Great Service and Good Times is Kerry and Tracey Brown’s motto to sum up an approach to business which has made Café Pronto Mandurah’s most popular dining venue. Café Pronto was awarded with the 2008 Sugar Australia WA Café of the Year. It offers fresh local produce in a water-side setting and a gourmet experience for locals and visitors alike. Café Pronto also prides itself on offering the best coffee in town – now officially the case after winning the Peel’s Barista of the Year award. Reviewed by Café Culture Magazine Issue 16 2009

Open Tue – Sun, 7am to Late

Alen’s Espresso QLD

420 George Street
Brisbane, QLD

Located in the heart of Brisbane is the Sugar Australia 2008 Australian Café of the Year. Alen’s Espresso has a reputation of being a true espresso bar – matching great coffee with excellent customer service. All the staff are fantastic and highly motivated, and Al is slowly teaching all of them to become great baristas. What is obviously noticeable with Alen’s Espresso is that they are surrounded by well known coffee chains, yet they still get the great lines snaking out the door. Reviewed by Café Culture Magazine Issue 16 2009

Open Mon – Fri, 6am to 4pm

Zach’s Kafe Kitchen NSW

Shop 1/29 Christie St
St Leonards NSW

NSW Winner of the 2008 Sugar Australia Café of the Year, Kafe Kitchen has a contemporary and sleek design with all the mod cons. A friendly, funky and vibrant appeal that provides a comfortable and warm environment indoors and out. Owned and run by Zach and Katerina Hiotis, Kafe Kitchen has assembled a fabulous and polite team that caters to all of their customer’s needs – Reviewed by Café Culture Magazine Issue 17 2009

Open Mon – Fri, 7am to 4pm

Barista Profile

Barista Dominic

Dominic Stellino is head Barista at Epitome Cafe Restaurant in Lane Cove, Sydney.

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