Crave Coffee Roastery & Espresso Bar

This is arguably the Best Coffee in Sydney!
Fresh Roasted on site and used in many of the best cafes in Sydney.
I turned up today to buy my regular kilo bag of their signature «Lindt Blend» beans (for home) and find that they have expanded to the restaurant space next door! (…good to see the same team that has been doing it for years)
The Breakfast is Great. I had the Chorizo with scrambled egg and sourdough.
Still the best Coffee. Now with more room to hangout for Coffee and Breckky or Lunch.
They also do a mean takeaway coffee at the front.
(Okay so I’m excited for them!)

I am extremely picky about my coffee beans, and know only the best coffee comes from a perfectly roasted fresh bean. And Crave Coffee have mastered this. They roast their beans on site and as I live nearby I can smell the beans roasting, at least once a week, meaning high turn over very fresh beans. I have been buying from Crave for over 3 years now and have yet received a bad bag of beans. Crave beans have a nice oil gloss that produces a rich smooth crème and a full body taste. The K.A. Blend is my preferred bean as I’m flat white drinker. Their prices are comparable with the stale (probably been sitting in a warehouse for 6 months) supermarket beans. I totally recommend Crave coffee beans.

Living across the road I often drift asleep to the aroma of coffee. It was the scent that led me to Crave Coffee. When I purchase a bag of freshly ground coffee I know it is only days old.

What attracted me to Crave Coffee was its unusual exterior and location. Situated on Maddox Street, (Nothing unusual about that), it has the appearance of a warehouse, a small outlet for coffee related paraphernalia and the coffee itself.
Then, if you follow the instructions and go upstairs, you’ll find the actual café in a sort of loft, hovering over the warehouse section of the business.
I entered the establishment, unsure of whether I was supposed to be in there, the place was empty. Apart from the massive sign which read, «Now Open» there was no way of knowing whether it was open or not. (Give me a sign lord!)
I walked upstairs and was met by the barista, I asked if they did milkshakes, I wanted a shake badly, eager for something refreshing to sooth my dehydrated skin. I could feel the dryness in my hands.
They didn’t serve milkshakes, «Coffee» she said, was all they did. (That and food.) I told her of how I had already had four coffees that morning. This was no lie, I had one when I woke up and then I had three meetings, all involving a caffeinated beverage.
I succumbed, such was my desire to find out about this small and mysterious café. However, in order not to further destroy myself with these caffeinated treats, I decided to get a Macchiato, a small coffee (Still probably with the same amount of caffeine.)
The coffee was really, really tasty. I sat with a bottle of tap water and sipped some water with my coffee at a ratio of ten to one in order to get some liquids into my body, other than the rain.