A tiny opening on Llankelly Place with tables that spill into the lane, open since 2010 and pouring Mecca the whole time. The brekkie rice is the local order: creamed red rice, quinoa, walnuts, pepitas, stewed rhubarb, dukkah. It is the Melbourne laneway café done properly in Sydney.
WHY IT’S WORTH IT
1Fifteen years on the same corner pouring the same roaster. That is a rare kind of steady.
2The brekkie rice is not a normal café dish and it is why people come back.
3Llankelly Place is one of the few Sydney laneways that actually works to sit in.