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Glebe Cafes
Find out where to relax with a latte and watch the world go by on Glebe Point Road and St Johns Road,
with information and reviews on all your favourite Glebe cafes below.
See also: Restaurants | Pubs and Bars | Takeaways | Delis | Shopping for Food
Astor Expresso
166 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037............. Ph: (02) 8065 4441
Read recent reviews by bloggers on the Glebe News & Reviews Blog
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Badde Manors
37 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9660 3797
Review from CitySearch:
"Needde some goodde vegetarian foodde? That's just what you'll get here (rather than The Cable Guy's Medieval Times experience, which the name evokes.) Actually, the only thing we don't like about this cafe is its name. Still, it provides one of the best cafe experiences in Glebe. Hugging a lively corner of its own, it's a visual smorgasbord of memorabilia, with a warm crowd and speedy service. It's one of the street's stalwarts, and main meals are changed daily - but don't miss the red lentil dahl if it's on the menu. Otherwise, the fettuccine and penne are perennially popular. Sweet tooths will love the massive sticky date pudding, with cream or icecream."
Review by Rough Guides Travel:
"Vegetarian corner café with a light–and–airy ambience and laid–back staff; always packed, especially for weekend brunch."
Read recent reviews by bloggers on the Glebe News & Reviews Blog
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Bakery Cafe
365 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9660 5771
Blackwattle Cafe
Bellevue House, 55 Leichhardt St, Glebe NSW 2037
Review by Lissa Christopher, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2011:
"This new, fully licensed enterprise occupies a top-notch patch of real estate at the wet end of Leichhardt Street, overlooking Anzac Bridge, the leisure boats and tugs on Blackwattle Bay and the old Glebe Island Bridge. It's inside Bellevue Cottage, a renovated 1896 heritage building with high ceilings, lustrous wooden floors and a big rectangle of grass that's ideal for dogs and children, of which there are many on this particular morning. Colourful layers of paint from days of yore have been exposed on the walls inside, where it's spacious and handsome but noisy. The umbrella-shaded tables outside are idyllic. We're here for breakfast and order coffee ($3), scrambled eggs on toast with mushrooms ($16) and a duck egg omelet with leek, mushrooms and fontina cheese ($16). It's all satisfactory but lacks X-factor. The omelet, for example, is a bit dry and accompanied by an unwarranted heap of cos lettuce. Afterwards, we're no longer hungry but still unsatisfied. That said, we'd come back for the coffee, the outside tables and the outlook." Read the full review.
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Cafe Bariloche
333 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe 2037............. Ph: (02) 9660 3524
Review by Joanna Savill, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 February 2007:
"Easy to miss in Glebe Point Road cafe-and-deli land, Cafe Bariloche is like the cake shop that's not there. With a modest window display and low-lit interior, there's little hint, apart from the name (a famous holiday destination in Patagonia), that there's anything exotic afoot. But the beef-mince empanadas (at a pricey-ish $3.70) are flaky and more-ish, zested up with a little paprika and cumin, a slice of egg and a whole green olive that tastes like a whole green olive, not one of those dyed black rubber rings disguised as one. Look hard next time you're down this end. It's worth it."
Review by Joanna Savill, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2001,
"Hidden down the far end of Glebe, Alice and Roberto Sanchez's cafe/bakery has a giveaway Argentinian name (Bariloche is a city in southern Argentina). Apart from empanadas, they serve mainly European-style cakes and tarts. Their empanadas are delicious, with a light puff pastry and a great spicy filling with plenty of cumin and a touch of chilli."
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Cafe Otto
NB: Cafe Otto is currently closed due to fire damage in January 2010
79 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037............. Ph: (02) 9552 1519
Sydney Sidewalk: "Licensed alfresco dining with a bird's-eye view of Glebe street life. Not always great, but sometimes."
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Cafe Rolling Stones
67 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037............. Ph: (02) 9518 6489
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Cafissimo Cafe
Shop 3 / 166 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9660 8268
Cibo
245 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037
Clipper Cafe
16 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037
Read recent reviews by bloggers on the Glebe News & Reviews Blog
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Deli For Your Belly
325a Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9552 4669
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Delish Deli
72 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037............. Ph: (02) 9552 2326
Digi.Kaf Cybercafe
174 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037.............. Ph: (02) 9660 3509
Website: http://www.digikaf.com.au
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Elizabeth's Boutique Cafe
75 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037............. Ph: (02) 9552 2220
The E Lounge - Wood Fired Pizzeria
92 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 .............. Ph: (02) 9518 6002
Website: http://www.elounge.info
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Glebe Street Deli
339 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9566 4219
Review from Sydney Eats:
"Another local hero, a casual and friendly place where all the outworkers of Glebe emerge blinking from staring at their screens for a hit of Grinders coffee and a salad or a slurp of soup at lunch. Food changes daily but there's always a special sambo like ham, chutney, roasted nuts, baked ricotta and lettuce on Turkish $7.50 and a soup ?zucchini and tomato with a roll $7 and often something like the red Thai beef and pumpkin curry and rice $9.50. Breakfast is big, especially weekend mornings, with bagels and toasted Haberfield woodfired bread and muesli."
Hernandez Coffee Dean
1 Derwent Street, Glebe NSW 2037
Website: http://www.cafehernandez.com.au
Review from EatandDrink.com.au:
"The origianl Hernandez (founder of veteran Hernandez in Rushcutters Bay) is serving not only aspresso style coffee but serious filtered coffee, which some afficienados claim is the best way to have it. Not the American slop but rich and fragrant."
House of Mind Body and Spirit
196 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037.............. Ph: (02) 9660 0251
Website: http://www.mindbodyandspirit.com.au/
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La Banette
18 Glebe Point Rd Glebe 2037............. Ph: (02) 8095 9688
Le Petit Tarte Cafe & Patisserie
219 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9692 8739
Review from CitySearch:
"Anyone in search of a sugar fix won't be disappointed by this tiny cafe, with its enticing display of small but delectable chocolate and mousse specialities. There are French plum tarts, blueberry tarts, strawberry tarts and citron tarts, though the $4 caramel mousse is one of the best distractions from the daily newspaper you're likely to get. Dieters might want to stick to the cafe menu and sample the nori paper vegetable bouquet or the veal cordon bleu. Calamari and mango salad, the BLT (with avocado) on Turkish, and the spaghetti pasqual with zucchini and eggplant are also worth a mention."
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Mano Espresso
73 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9566 4499
From November 2006 Newsletter of Sydney Eats:
"So what’s the owner of the finest DVD store in town (Mondo Movies, 89 Booth Street, Annandale) doing opening a café in Glebe? According to Jim Papadakis, it was all his father John’s fault. John started drinking coffee at Campos in Newtown (193 Missenden Road) and became a little obsessed with the murky liquid. So now there’s Mano Espresso, where they serve – guess what – beautifully made Campos coffee. It’s off Glebe Point Road – brave move – in St Johns Road, just before the police station, in a building owned by Galuzzo the greengrocer out front.
But do good things and good things come to you. Mano Espresso seems to be prospering. Jim and his father John have turned what was going to be “just an espresso bar” into a really good “European-style” café with seriously good light meals and cakes - like the spanokopita (made by John’s wife and Jim’s mum Sue) and waiter Louisa’s appallingly good pecan slice, Nutella brioche – and a lot more.
I guess I should have realised that food was a big part of Jim and John’s life when I learnt about the Iron Chef competition at Mondo: if you can guess the theme ingredient on a Saturday –before the show natch – you get free movies for a week. My money’s on artichokes."
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Moores Boulangerie Cafe
107 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037.............. Ph: (02) 9692 0847
Naggy's Cafe & Espresso Bar
333b Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9566 4860
From March 2008 Newsletter of Sydney Eats:
"There’s a curious new place on Glebe Point Road. Why curious? First, the name: Naggy’s Café. It comes from the Nepalese chef and owner, Nagendra Gautam. Barista and manager Noele (from Hong Kong — “just Noele”) tells me it’s because no one can pronounce his full name. Second, the décor: an eclectic mix of chairs that looks like someone raided a furniture store at midnight — but you know what? It works. “It was the designer’s idea,” said Noele, “because the place is so big, to break it up.” Down the back it looks a bit like a Victorian drawing room with red plush sofas and easy chairs and a wall of old-fashioned flower paintings. But the coffee (Espresso di Manfredi) is well made, the simple Australian café food is well cooked — you can go so wrong with bacon and eggs and Naggy’s doesn’t — and the service is swift and charming. It hasn’t affected business at the Glebe Street Deli next door but one, but it has sorted out the clientele. Naggys is hip, young Glebe, the Deli old lefty Glebe."
Noora Coffee Shop
323 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9552 3519
Pain de Sucre Cafe
Shop 2, 198 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9571 8100
Sam I Am Cafe
99 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037
Saffron
33 Glebe Point Rd Glebe 2037............. Ph: (02) 9660 0621
San Churro
47 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 .............. Ph: (02) 9692 0119
Website: http://www.sanchurro.com
Read recent reviews by bloggers on the Glebe News & Reviews Blog
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Sappho Books & Cafe
51 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9552 4498
Website: http://www.sapphobooks.com.au
Review by Secret Sydney, March 2006:
"Iced coffees with plenty of icecream, frappes crunchy with berry bits and ingeniously sprinkled with shaved chocolate, books within arms reach – not to mention the personal efforts of the staff – combine to make this little hideaway a very special place for long talks or quiet reflection."
Read review by blogger Not Quite Nigella
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The Spot
367 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9660 1568
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Well Connected
35 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9566 2655
Daily: 7am-midnight.
Review by Sydney Eats, 2005:
"Originally conceived as an Internet cafe, its computer terminals have dwindled to two and are increasingly less the focus in this cosy, red vinyl haven. Service is the swaggering laidback Glebe style, so remind yourself that slow and steady wins the race. Generous breakfasts cater to all tastes and include a very satisfying scrambled tofu on toast $7.50. For lunch, try the Tasmanian smoked salmon bruschetta $8.90. There are plenty of meal-size salads and Turkish sangers through to beef or vegetarian lasagne, all well-proportioned. There's a good range of tea and coffee (with all the organic herbal/soy trappings if you wish) and milkshakes are the good stuff. For a cheap sweet, find room for chocolate lasagne $3.90."
Review by Helen Greenwood, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 2001:
"The decor of this former Internet cafe is a porridge of styles. It has mustard-coloured tiles on the outside, the kind you'd expect to see on an Art Deco pub. The livid red walls inside are hung with striking contemporary art. A relief of a sumo wrestler hangs above the open kitchen. And there are also the remnants of a past life: a couple of computer terminals clinging to a benchtop. Upstairs, there is another world of gorgeous leatherette retro red chairs, pedestal style, lounges on the landing, and a fabulous '70s plastic lamp in an alcove.
Teas arrive promptly, proper pots on trays with warm milk and flattened tea strainers so they don't roll off. The raisin toast is a mile high, the crumb firm but not gluggy, and scented with cinnamon. Scrambled eggs and bacon are properly soft and crisp respectively, the toast again thick but not dense, partnered with a tartly dressed pile of leaves to add bite. It's very easy to muck up breakfast food and hard to make it distinctive. This place happily avoids the former and manages the latter. Nearly everyone goes for the massive breakfast: scrambled eggs, bacon, tomato, coffee and a large orange juice. The lunch menu looks good, too: a classic BLT; a linguine with chilli, garlic, anchovy, basil and fresh tomato; a sprouted chickpea and kumara salad."
Read recent reviews by bloggers on the Glebe News & Reviews Blog
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Yuga Floral Design & Cafe
172 St Johns Road, Glebe NSW 2037 ............. Ph: (02) 9692 8604
Website: on http://sydney.citysearch.com.au
Review by Kelsey Munro, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 2006:
"Yuga Floral Design & Cafe occupies a beautifully lit terrace in a pretty part of Glebe, with a front courtyard that's elevated above street level. Doubling as a florist and floral-design school, the cafe has generously spaced tables between bunches of fresh blooms, with floral art decorating the walls.
There's a distinctly Japanese cast to the elegant and spacious cafe, courtesy of floral designer Setsuko Yanagisawa, who studied in Japan, Europe and Australia before establishing Yuga in 2002. She creates striking sculptural arrangements for weddings and gifts, as well as teaching courses in floral design and Japanese Ikebana techniques.
Foodwise, Yuga has excellent cafe fare for breakfast (big breakfast $12, ricotta pancakes with berries and cinnamon ricotta $8.50) which is served all day, and a Japanese lunch menu (green tea noodle salad $12, udon noodles with tempura $10.50), alongside seasonally changing gourmet sandwiches ($6.90-$8.50), coffee, tea and cakes."
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