Cafe restaurants in Pacific
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Enzo's on the Beach
A shabby-chic outdoor cafe with a superb beachfront location where you can dine on focaccias, wraps, healthy salads and light meals or just sip a coffee and wallow in the perfect ocean views. Active sorts can hire kayaks, surf skis and paddleboards or learn kitesurfing.
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Marios
Mooching at Marios is part of the Melbourne 101 curriculum. Breakfasts are big and served all day, the service is swift and the coffee is old-school strong.
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Nourish
Nourish is a God-sent cafe for the gluten-intolerant, serving curries, salads, stir-fries, risottos and burgers – all gluten-free, and mostly dairy-free too. Vegetarians and vegans will also be smiling.
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Sugar Beat
Park yourself by the sunny window, settle into a corner of the long bench seating or take in the scene from one of the pavement tables. There's cafe-style fusion fare and locally famous baked goods.
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Aromas
This European-style cafe is unashamedly ostentatious, with chandeliers, faux-marble tables and cane chairs deliberately facing the street so patrons can ogle the passing foot traffic. There's the usual array of panini, cakes and light meals, but most folk come for the coffee and the atmosphere.
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Soto Espresso
Modern Soto opens onto the street, welcoming its inner-city crowd: stay-at-home dads, ladies who lunch and shop and bleary-eyed students. The large cooked breakfasts will tackle any hangover.
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Retro Café
Funky Retro is ground zero for Saturday brunch among the market stalls. Masterful breakfasts, bagels, salads and burgers interweave with laughing staff, chilled-out jazz and the rattle and hum of the coffee machine.
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Gorges Café
Ask for the Morning Cure and you won't be disappointed at this airy cafe doing wonderful breakfasts and lunches opposite the jetty.
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Tarts
Massive tarts piled with berries, apples or lime curd; rich scrambled eggs tumbling off thickly sliced sourdough; mini custard tarts stacked with glazed strawberries. Packed like a hamper on weekends.
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Mansfield Regional Produce Store
The best spot in town for coffee or a light lunch, this rustic store stocks an array of local produce, wines and fresh-baked artisan breads.
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Tiger, Tiger
The small shabby- chic interior isn't as popular as the outdoor tables, in a lane leading off Murray St. The free wi-fi's a drawcard, but the food is also excellent.
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Estabar
Start the day with an excellent coffee or a Spanish-style hot chocolate at this sun-drenched cafe overlooking Newcastle Beach. When the temperature soars, stop in for the best gelato in town.
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Richmond Hill Cafe & Larder
Once the domain of well-known cook Stephanie Alexander, it still boasts its lovely cheese room and simple, comforting food like cheesy toast. There are breakfast cocktails for the brave. Wellington St in the CBD becomes Bridge Rd.
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Galleon Cafe
Friendly folk, a decent amount of elbow room and low-key music make this a cheery place to down a coffee and muffin in busy St Kilda.
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Espressohead
Tucked away behind Woolworths; locals flock to this place for its excellent coffees. See if you can count the number of dodgy vans for sale on the bulletin board.
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Cbar
Serving full meals throughout the day, from coconut prawns with mango salsa to Moroccan-style beef tagines.
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Blond Coffee
An elegant, breezy room with huge windows facing the main street, Blond serves nutty coffee and all-day cafe fare, including awesome pumpkin, capsicum and fetta muffins. There's also a cheese-and-smallgoods counter, and a wall full of local produce (vinegar, olive oil, biscuits and confectionery). Fake-blonde botox tourists share the window seats with down-to-earth regulars.
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Stockyard Gallery
This casual cafe is a little gem. There's a delicious range of homemade snacks (focaccia, sandwiches, cakes, muffins) plus fresh plunger coffee, divine mango smoothies and unusual bush-orange ice cream. The art gallery here sells Aboriginal art, jewellery and books.
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tant pour tant
This wonderful French patisserie serves artisan and organic breads, and a jaw-dropping range of croissants, cakes and pastries. Breakfasts and light lunches also.
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Roma Bar
Roma is a real local institution and meeting place for Lefties, literati and travelling types. Well away from the craziness of Mitchell St, with free wi-fi, great coffee and juices, and you can get anything from muesli and eggs Benedict for breakfast to excellent toasted focaccia and fish curry for lunch.
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Indulge
Intoxicating pastries, fancy brekkies, decent coffee and consistently good food draw in the crowds.
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Cyclone Cafe
Possibly the best coffee in Darwin is brewed at this unassuming Parap haunt. The decor is all rusty corrugated-iron (Cyclone Tracy's favourite projectile), the staff are upbeat, the coffee is strong and aromatic (try the double-shot 'Hypercino'), and there's some great breakfast and lunch fare: croissants, burritos, cheese melts and bacon-and-egg rolls.
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Mart 130
Where the light-rail trams now run was once a fully fledged railway line with a string of Federation-style stations. Mart 130 has painted the walls and floors a smart black and white, and serves up corncakes, granola and eggs with decks overlooking the park. Weekend waits can be long. From St Kilda, you'll find Mart 130 in the Middle Park section of Canterbury Rd.
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Jam Packed
Inside the redeveloped IXL Jam Factory atrium next to the Henry Jones Art Hotel, this cafe is jam-packed at breakfast time. If you're sporting a hangover, the 'Big JP Breakfast' is the perfect reintroduction to civilisation.
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Fresh
Retro-arty Fresh offers an all-vegetarian/vegan menu that's both deliciously tempting and environmentally aware. It does energising breakfasts, linger-over lunches, and coffees and cakes in between.
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