Little Feet Round the World: My Newtown Diary

Newtown Station

In front of Newtown Station

This pretty place is called Newtown

Newtown is inner suburb of Sydney, located approximately 4km southwest of Sydney CBD. The main street is called King Street and the train station serving this area is Newtown Station. Currently, this area is considered a locality with many hipster cafes in place.

Throughout my stay in Sydney, I have been here for two times. First time with my primary school friend and the second time with my man. The purpose coming here is always for cafe, cafe, and cafe!

Cuckoo Callay

Cuckoo Callay is just located in front of Newtown Station. It is a tiny cafe with outdoor seating. It is said to have delicious food and great coffee with the beans from Coffee Alchemy. This cafe has enormous good reviews on social media.

The al-fresco dining

The tiny kitchen

Delicious food

We did not order any coffee but the foods that we ordered were good. My friend ordered Bacon Mac Daddy which seemed to be the most popular item here. I ordered crab croquette with avocado sauce. We both were satisfied with our meals. The only bad thing about this cafe is the waiting time. We waited more than half an hour for our foods. Perhaps that's reason for the everlasting long queue there.

Black Star Pastry

Black Star Pastry is the famous pattissiere who invented the most instagrammable cake in the world, the watermelon cake. There is another branch of this joint in Pavilion on the George.

The bakery cafe

The cakes are sold in slices

Or in whole

The famous watermelon cake, layers of sponge cake, cream, watermelon, strawberry and edible flowers

To be honest, I am not a big fan of the watermelon cake. It looks pretty, I agree, but 2 layers of thick cream are too much for me.

CampoS

CampoS is one of the famous coffee bean suppliers to many cafes here in Australia. It also has its own 7 flagship cafes across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It is said that the tiny CampoS cafe here in Newtown is the first born, since 1997.

The baristas and the customers

Green is the colour

His happy face seeing coffee

I am a big fan of coffee and CampoS is a good one. The coffee is not acidic and full bodied. However, I prefer something stronger and more bitter than what CampoS offers.

Brewtown Newtown

Brewtown Newton is another famous cafe in this area that serves breakfast/brunch, coffee and desserts. The speciality of Brewtown is the croissant-donut or cronut. In here, they call it brewnut. The cafe is full most of the time and queues are seen quite often. Based on my friend's personal experience, don't come here late in the afternoon to avoid disappointment of running out of your favourite brewnut!

The front of the store

The interior and the people

The pretty pastries

The coffee

Afternoon snack

The brewnut is the winner, crunchy and chewy and tasty and everything good as you can imagine. However, the coffee is quite acidic. I am not a fan with of the acidic hint in coffee, so I will not come back for the coffee for sure.

Bourke Street Bakery

Bourke Street Bakery is a local bakery that started to flourish as a humble bakery in Surry Hills, Sydney. It is now a chain of bakeries everywhere, including Alexandria, Newtown, Parramatta, Millers Point, and the newest in Barangaroo.

Bourke Street Bakery is famous for the meat pies. There are many choices of flavours: original beef pie, wine beef brisket pipe, and many others. I have tried the original beef pie and wine beef brisket pie. Both are good!

The bakery in Newtown

Beef pie and pastry

The iced coffee is good too

Thai Food in Newtown

Newtown is also famous for Thai food. Walking along the main street of Newtown, King Street, you can find a lot of Thai restaurants: Thai Pothong, Newtown Thai, etc. etc. etc. I tried the food at one Thai food takeaway shop besides Cuckoo Callay. It is reasonably priced and pretty good itself.