Five new places for your Monday morning coffee
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Looking for a new place to grab your morning coffee? We’ve rounded up five new cafés that can cure your cappuccino cravings.
Change up your morning routine (or book a coffee meeting with your colleagues) and stop in at one of these new cafés.
Little Luxton
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For Nate Swift, coffee has always been about building community and bringing people together. So it’s fitting that his newly opened café, Little Luxton, was made possible through community spirit.
The café encourages its customers to “pay it forward,” with $1 from each coffee sold going towards The Gordon Community Centre’s Food Pantry, which is run by Anglicare and provides non-perishable food, household and personal essentials, and fresh food for those in need. There’s also the option to donate a coffee via the café’s website. Along with great coffee, the menu features pastries from Three Mills, toasties, and the café’s speciality, “lux nuts”.
Open five days a week. Monday to Friday, 7am — 2pm | 110 Lewis Luxton Avenue, Gordon | littleluxton.com
Centrar Café
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There’s no end of good coffee available on Lonsdale Street. But if you like yours served with a side of puppaccino for your best friend and maybe a meet-and-greet with a a resident French bulldog called Peaches, then Centrar needs to be your new hang.
Pumping out Axis Roasters beans, MeandMeBrew ethical teas and a growing selection of sweet and savoury treats by Swell Catering, they always have time for the pups of Braddon with Centrar—priding itself on being a dog-friendly space, selling chew toys and treats for all four-legged customers.
Open seven days a week. Monday to Sunday, 8:30 am- 5:30 pm | 103/16 Lonsdale Street Braddon (in the Branx Building) | @centrarcafe
Café Blanco
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Stepping into a small neighbourhood café in Kambah, the last thing you would expect is to be transported to Latin America. But as Café Blanco opens its doors to bring a taste of Latin culture and cuisine to the area, that’s exactly what southsiders will experience. Founded by Jose Blanco and his partner Bridget Meli, the idea behind the café was for Jose to share his Latin heritage and passion for traditional food and coffee.
Drawing inspiration from ingredients all infused with Latin culture and love, the idea behind the menu was to create a fresh take on café favourites, while, for the coffee lovers, a taste of Venezuela awaits as they serve locally roasted Red Brick Coffee, sourced from a town near where Jose was born.
Open six days a week. Tuesday to Friday, 7 am – 2 pm and Saturday and Sunday, 8 am – 2 pm | Shop 1/3 Carleton St, Kambah | @cafe___blanco
Negozio by Amelia
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Negozio operates seven days as a café, store and bottega, providing fresh-made real panini, piadine (Italian street food—flat bread with two-three fillings), a range of breads and savoury pastries—and of course, coffee.
Partnering with Roasting Warehouse Speciality Coffee of Melbourne, who has developed a special Dark Italian roast just for them, it pairs perfectly with a range of sweet treats on offer including sfogliatelle, rum baba, torta di pera e ricotta, biscotti, amaretti and cantucci, cannoli and some exemplary Portugese tarts (if we do say so ourselves).
Open seven days. Monday to Sunday, 9 am – 5 pm | Canberra Centre Beauty Garden (behind Raku) | @negozio.by.amelia
La Sable Patisserie
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Stocking a full range of French pastries, croissants, and Danishes—as well as the full range of pies, pasties, quiches and sausage rolls alongside the eye-wateringly beautiful desserts in a high-end fit-out—it’s hard to miss La Sable in the Canberra Centre.
But it’s important to note alongside these treats, they also have coffee—a special La Sable signature roast from Seven Miles—because how else are you going to regain focus from the sugar coma?
Open seven days a week. Monday to Sunday, 8 am – 6 pm | Opposite Coles Supermarket | lasablepatisserie.com.au
Feature image: Ash St George for Pew Pew Studio
