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Nothing gets left to chance at this bustling Bondi café: there's an exact, time-tested formula to the strong, creamy coffees pumped out by owner Rafi Aruch and his crew these past 12 years. Perch on one of the handful of wooden stools that line Hall Street and order the Gusto-specific blend custom-made by Genovese.
Bondi Beach
Bertoni's charm is it feels like home - that's why the weekends find queues snaking into the street as people fight for communal tables and milk crates. The coffee is super-charged (especially with a tot of their secret family recipe liqueur) and has an almond biscotti riding shotgun.
Balmain
Ed's ristrettos are as cool as his diner - a red-hot shot of Sydney's own Single Origin espresso, full of bold notes, voluptuous curves and bugger-all bitterness. Follow it with a blast-from-the-past flat white and don't let Ed bully you into another ristretto. Unless you want to, of course.
Waverley
Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee. Oh, and a flat white. While all of their coffees are worth a hot damn, the best are the macchiatos, short blacks and ristrettos. This tiny oasis is a small saviour on King Street. What the café lacks in personality, it makes up for in pure skill. The beans are roasted in Chippendale in their vintage German roaster born in 1957 and it produces a rich, deep melodic flavour. This machine, which runs hot and heavy all day, spits out coffee with such complex dimensions, you wonder why their store isn't a little more off-the-beaten-track.
Sydney
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I used to love Mecca, however recently they have changed, I don't know if it's the coffee or the barista but lets just say it's not the same and the coffee has gone from amazing to really bad.
Posted on Tue 20 Sep 2011 09:22:45