BEST BREAKFAST: SINGLE ORIGIN ROASTERS

This coffee Mecca isn’t all about the beans. The guys at Single Origin also serve up a mean breakfast, and manage to do so with originality and flair—all out of a tiny kitchen with just two hotplates. Exhibit A: the colonial Indian-inspired Kedgeree – a dish of warm, fluffy and lightly curried rice tossed with smoked trout and topped with a poached egg. For the sweet-toothed, they have the ultimate toastie: banana and house-made nutella wedged between thick slices of sourdough and grilled to perfection. It’s all hustle and bustle as customers cram around smallish wooden tables while a queue of style queens await their morning brew. The staff blend into the uber-cool crowd and for a minute I think our waitress is one of them. She brings out a blanket for me to shield myself from the wind as I sip a cup of the House Blend—which doesn’t disappoint. (Dana McCauley)

60-64 Reservoir St, Surry Hills. 9211 0665, singleorigin.com.au