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Sydney cafe reviews

Good Food rates the city's lattes and smashed avos.

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Steamed vegan dumplings of many colours.

Bodhi puts the yum into vegan yum cha

  • Jill Dupleix
Cavalier's coffee tasting flight.

Cavalier 2.0: Bigger than ever in St Leonards

  • Angie Schiavone
ONA's spin on avocado on toast.

Canberra's ONA Coffee opens in Marrickville

  • Angie Schiavone
House-made bagel filled with smoked salmon, cream cheese, pickled beet and red onion.

Good Fella cafe brings bagels, coffee and brio to Bella Vista

  • Angie Schiavone
Top dish: Chilli eggs.

Counting your cafe blessings in Hurlstone Park

  • Angie Schiavone
Matinee's breakfast burger with thick bourbon bacon.

Welcome to the daytime show at Matinee Coffee, Marrickville

  • Jill Dupleix
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The lasagne is the less cloying, tomato-based style layered with bolognese sauce.

Barbetta, where the vita is dolce

  • Jill Dupleix
Vegan chocolate popcorn cake.

Black Star's new base raises the cake stakes

  • Jill Dupleix
Mango salad bowl with papaya and peanuts.

Wellness is the new black in Bondi

  • Jill Dupleix
Lamb and haloumi open rye with beetroot slaw.

Is the Bells Road Social the ultimate cafe for parents?

  • Angie Schiavone
Rollers is all about baked goods and coffee.

Roll up for the three-course croissant meal at Manly's Rollers Bakehouse

  • Angie Schiavone
Pick up a completo: Hotdogs go all out at La Paula in Fairfield.

La Paula a Chilean contender for top dog

  • Andrew Levins
Rainbow chicken bowl, kim cheese toastie and bulletproof coffee.

Meet Orwells, the Potts Point cafe that feeds fasting customers

  • Angie Schiavone
A nitro cold brew.

Mascot's Comoros cafe takes flight with nitro coffee and bagels

  • Angie Schiavone
Butter-roasted lobster tail with poached eggs in a bagel.

Goodfields in Lindfield blurs the line between cafe and restaurant

  • Jill Dupleix
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Those sweet of tooth head straight to Saga Lyte.

Saga Lyte hits the sweet spot at Darling Square

  • Jill Dupleix
Israeli breakfast with scrambled eggs.

Shuk cafe in Elizabeth Bay unites young and old

  • Jill Dupleix
Seared tuna bowl with quinoa, brown rice, avocado, edamame, pickled ginger and seaweed.

Heart Cafe Bondi, where the feelgood factor runs high

  • Jill Dupleix
Pie of the Tiger.

Harry's Cafe de Wheels

  • Callan Boys
Crispy skin master stock free-range chicken with special satay sauce.
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Pan-Asian Chubby Cheeks perfect for Paddington

  • Terry Durack
Salmon gateau.

Colourful dishes take centre stage at artist-inspired cafe

  • Candice Chung
The icy kakigori dessert is a peak worth conquering.

North Sydney outpost covers the healthy, wealthy and wise

  • Lee Tran Lam
COOH Cafe

COOH Cafe

Ricotta hotcakes with banana and honeycomb butter.

Icon review: bills, Darlinghurst

  • Callan Boys
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Cherry Moon's counter brims with baked treats.

Bakery meets granny's parlour at Cherry Moon General Store

  • Jill Dupleix
Must-order toasty: Mozzarella in carrozza.
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The Fenwick finds the sweet spot on Sydney harbour

  • Terry Durack
Outfield's egg and bacon roll is hard to go past.

Outfield cafe reinvents the picnic

  • Jill Dupleix
The Aussie-Greek moussaka pie at Alevri.

Dulwich Hill's Alevri bakery-cafe is a big fat Greek hit

  • Jill Dupleix
A nod to the past: Truffled chicken club sandwich with fries.

Sydney's new-look Cosmopolitan is primed for people-watching

  • Jill Dupleix
Must-try dish: The hot salt beef bagel with dill pickles and mustard is a tender meat dream.

Bondi hole-in-the-wall offers fresh bagels with a schmear of fun

  • Lenny Ann Low
Curried scrambled egg and LP's sausages on an English muffin at A1 Canteen in Chippendale.

Terry Durack celebrates the return of Sydney's cafes

  • Terry Durack