The Rise Cafe - CABRAMATTA

Before Cafe Rise this busy John St corner of Cabra was the location of the council's CCTV office. When that got moved to the new Police Station, the new owners turned it into an old style cafe It's had several owners since but the common denominator was zinging against the zapping of multiple pho and Asian restaurants Here you'll get fish and chips, burgers, shakes, banana bread and cafe sandwiches. Mornings are pretty popular with cigarette wielding locals sipping coffee Coffee is fine as is the big breakfast special. Bread is white, well toasted and very well buttered, bacon is a fatty cut, sausage is oily. Eggs are perfectly sunny side up. They promise old style cafe and...read more

Cheap prices with good portions. steak, chips and salad is awesome!

Came for a short half hour coffee with my husband before Tan Viet opened. The lady, which served us, had a bad attitude as we only ordered coffee and not some food. I looked around to notice some people, as we only drink coffee. We wish we had went to Gloria Jeans instead. The cappuccino was not bad.

Before Cafe Rise this busy John St corner of Cabra was the location of the council's CCTV office. When that got moved to the new $13m Police Station, the new owners turned it into an old style cafe. It's had several owners since but the common denominator was zinging against the zapping of multiple pho and Asian restaurants. Here you'll get fish and chips, burgers, shakes, banana bread and cafe sandwiches. Mornings are pretty popular with cigarette wielding locals sipping coffee. Coffee is fine as is the big breakfast special. Bread is white, well toasted and very well buttered, bacon is a fatty cut, sausage is oily. Eggs are perfectly sunny side up. They promise old style cafe and deliver just that. Don't come with a Surry Hills sensibility and you'll leave satisfied. noodlies.com

I was most distressed to find that my regular morning cafe (which I will not name) started making truly craptacular coffee.