Beanbah Cafe – Macquarie St Sydney

It’s a Sunday afternoon you’re walking up Macquarie Street Sydney, and the caffeine pangs start resonating. The only problem is Macquarie St while a hive of activity on a weekday morphs into a ghost town on a Sunday. I stop at Beanbah opposite Sydney hospital about 100 metres north of Hyde Park. Beanbah is spacious with indoor and outdoor seating. Outdoors is perfect on a weekend, not sure hundreds of cars whizzing by on a weekday is all that alluring though. The preparation areas are clean and tidy, almost pristine in presentation.

My cappuccino is quite disappointing. It’s bereft of any flavour. The powdered chocolate has more punch than the coffee and I guess being in a mug doesn’t do the strength of the coffee any favours. It’s weak, weak, weak! My only challenge now is to finish half a mug, because my poor wife paid $4 for it. I can take solace in the fact that I had Campos to start the day. While the coffee does not reach any heights, there are a host of food options and they look delicious. Price wise, you could definitely do lunch and coffee for 2 for around $30 which given its location is a pretty good value.

I hope I encountered Beanbah on a bad Sunday. I can understand perhaps with ITU triathlon in town, a relaxing Sunday service may have been interrupted, and I am willing perhaps to come back a 2nd time to see if Beanbah can redeem itself in the coffee stakes.

Recommendation : I am loathe to not recommend a place, but if you’re after full flavoured cappuccino at least, perhaps you are better off looking elsewhere, if you trying to kick your caffeine habit, perhaps then, Beanbah is your spot!