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coffee guide
Sydneysiders are a sunny lot on the whole, friendly and helpful,
unless you screw up their coffee.
Sydney doesn’t have a coffee culture — it has a coffee cult.
If dueling were still acceptable in the city, I have no doubt that most
pistols drawn at dawn would be to defend the honor of a venerated barista.
So on that note we hope you enjoy our list…
Artificer Coffee Bar & Roastery – 547 Bouke St Surry Hills
Artificer is the union of two great coffee maestros. With a caffeine-only menu (yep, that’s right, no food), this café separates the stylish brunch set from those who take their coffee habit seriously. The minimalist décor ensures you focus on what’s important – the baristas and their craft.
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Reuben Hills – 61 Albion St Surry Hills
Reuben Hills is that cafe that never closes (literally only closes on Christmas Day) and everyone loves them for that. As you walk in you know coffee is the main focus here. Brewing tools litter the main work bench which will excite all coffee lovers.
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Edition Coffee Roasters – 60 Darling Drive Haymarket
Edition Coffee Roasters is a pretty special café. Not only is it beautiful to be in – with its black interior – but the food crossing the pass is right on the cusp of what eating in Sydney is all about.
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Showbox Coffee Brewers – 19 Whistler St Manly
Showbox Coffee Brewers is full of surprises. To start, it’s at Manly but not next to the ocean. Then there’s the warehouse-meets-diner interior, all polished concrete, steel tubing, raw brick and red and cream Laminex tables. And the coffee which is what makes ShowBox Coffee Brewers stand out from the crowd in Manly.
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Skittle Lane – 40 King St Sydney
Tucked away behind King Street, Skittlelane coffee is a welcome breath of fresh air for inner city locals. Featuring New York-inspired interiors, the cafe’s high ceilings and large steel windows demand attention from the casual passer by. Yet once you push through those sleek glass doors, this striking light-filled store makes you feel right at home.
Images from Instagram @skittlelanecoffee
Single O Roasters – 60-64 Reservoir St Surry Hills
Owners Dion and Emma Cohen focus on single origins, espresso and filter brews and meticulously crafted blends. Educating Sydneysiders about flavour profiles, brewing methods and growing regions has been something of a side-effect.
Images from Instagram @goreng_sous @single_o
Neighbourhood – 16 Buckingham St Surry Hills
When Neighbourhood opened in 2016, it took just a few weeks to amass a steady stream of regulars. They sit on the two benches on the footpath, or stand alongside the counter. Excellent coffee is the attraction here, but the banter is on-point too.
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Ona Coffee – 140 Marrickville Rd Marrickville
Whether you enjoy your coffee white, black or filtered, there’s multiple coffee blends, of various styles and origins, on offer. Ona Marrickville also has a rotating list of premium coffees, available to taste by the glass.
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White Horse – 137 Flora St Sutherland
Down south, White Horse Coffee is king. If you ask anyone in God’s Country where you can get a great coffee 90% of the people will point you towards White Horse in Sutherland.
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Gumption – Shop 11, Ground Floor The Strand Arcade
Usually, you don’t find good coffee in shopping arcades. But if anyone is going to break this theory it’s Gumpton, where Marrickville’s Coffee Alchemy operates its pocket-sized coffee bar.
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Mecca – 26 Bourke Rd Alexandria
Alexandria once the home of industrial Sydney, is slowly becoming home to chic fashion houses, top tier restaurants and coffee shops. The coffee shop leading this charge is Mecca.
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Primary – 9 Ward Ave Potts Point
If you’re more about the bean than the brunch, then Primary Coffee Roasters is the joint for you. The only food on offer is a selection of mouth-watering pastries from Penny Fours in Leichhardt, so the staff’s full attention is focused on making you the perfect cup of coffee.
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Sample – 75 Mary St St Peters
Sample Coffee’s second cafe is in the backstreets of St. Peters; let the smell of the freshly roasting coffee guide you to a paired-back warehouse space that’s worth the hunt, with the roaster, imported from Germany, in full swing in one of the rooms.
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Veneziano – 352 Bourke St Surry Hills
The sleek Surry Hills espresso bar serves a rotation of the brand’s favourite creations, from house blends to featured microlots sourced from one small area of a plot. They’re available to take away or enjoy in, perhaps teamed with a sweet treat from Shortstop Donuts.
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