

Pair that with a stuffed mushroom and cheese croissant and your day just got a whole lot better. For your morning caffeine hit, we recommend indulging in the nitro, which is cold brewed for up to 16 hours before it's infused with nitrogen. As for the coffee, St Dreux creates three signature styles served in bright Yves Klein blue packets: The Shepard is a light roast, The Silver Bullet is a medium roast, and The Rainmaker is dark.

Here, it's all about coffee with a cabinet of delicious pastries to match. Named after the patron saint for coffee, this pale pink-hued city espresso bar is housed within the recently finished Barrack Place mini dining precinct. The food menu is laced with coffee (in a refined way)-think coffee caviar that sits atop fruit sashimi, and a coffee-rubbed Wagyu burger. Order yours in the OG flavour, salted caramel, or a vegan spin too. As well as lattes and cappuccinos to fuel your morning commute, you'll find Industry Beans famous "Bubble Cup"-essentially a caffeinated bubble tea made with cold brew, tapioca pearls, and house-blended condensed-soy milk. Called a "concept cafe" it's sleek and minimalist inside, but still warm and inviting with timber booths to seat up to 20. Melbourne-based Industry Beans set up shop on York Street in the Sydney CBD back in 2019. As well as its long and adventurous menu, everything is made in-house from scratch, making Boon a super special cafe in Sydney. There are also croissants smothered in lime-green pandan custard, a Thai-style fried chicken burger, brown rice bowls, and more. Operating as an all-day cafe, restaurant, and Thai grocer, for breakfast (8am - 12pm), you'll find Single O coffee served alongside chicken or crab congee, omurice with jalapeno sriracha sauce, and pork skewers with sticky rice. Boon CafeĪlso pushing Sydney to see beyond avo on toast in the AM is Boon Cafe. Edition uses the best brewing techniques, including batch brew, pour-over, aero-press, Japanese drip, and cold brew. Pop in for Nordic open sandwiches (smorrebrod) alongside bento boxes, katsu burgers, and jiggly soufflé pancakes. As one of Sydney's best specialty roasters, coffee is second-to-none here. The sleek charcoal-black interior, designed by Sydney-based YSG architects, is inspired by an old Japanese farmhouse. With a Scandi-Japanese fusion breakfast menu, heads definitely turned. Nowadays, the Darlinghurst outpost is closed and Edition has settled at Haymarket's Darling Square dining precinct. What looked like just another sunlit Darlinghurst corner cafe, quickly become something of a hallmark for Sydney's new era of cafes. Here are the top spots to get your morning fix when you're in the thick of Sydney's central business district. These days, there are that many epic venues to try, with newbies opening all the time too, we reckon you'd be hard-pressed to tick them all off in a year.

Sydney's CBD used to be pretty devoid of cool cafes, bars, and restaurants.
