Lonsdale Street Roasters 7

Great coffee, lots of hipsters (but they don't bite or berate you for not riding a fixie). You'll have to join the long queue of public servants in the mornings.

As a fellow coffee roaster, these guys roast and sell excellent coffee beans. Never actually had anything there (eat-in) but takeaway is always reasonably quick.

Work just around the cornet and this is my regular coffee shop. The coffee is the best in the area although if you are there between 9 - 11 am expect bit of a wait as they are usually very busy. Overall B+

Ordered a Coffee which I think they do an excellent job of, however watching the barista wipe down dirty benches and then use the same cloth to clean the milk spout on the coffee machine killed the place for me. The staff member who eventually refunded me the cost of the coffee acted nonchanlantly with an inane grin and a condescending shake of his head when I raised the problem with him.

A most excellent coffee shop here in Canberra - they do coffee and they do it rather well if the espresso and the cappuccino I had was any indication. Another indication is a healthy take-away queue (about 10 deep at 10am in the morning and the inside was packed) that clusters at the entrance, and snakes out the door. Not a helluva lot of seating inside, there's one 7 person table near the back wall (hint: this is where you want to be if you want to face the outside and also, to access the four powerpoints located about head height - the only ones I could locate in the shop), a set of 6 modular tables against the wall (drag em together as required) and another 7-8 person communal one near the window. On the decor front, it's all nicely done up with wall art (black on cream), dark wood (tables, chairs, the coffee bar), and an industrial chic (polished concrete floors, old coffee sacks, worklights hanging from the ceiling etc, etc.. it's all very cozy. Heck, as you walk down the street you'll be hearing the music and the friendly clink of glasses, psssch of the steam wand, and light babble of Canberrans decrying the latest governmental excess. Look, it's Canberra. It's what we do.