Deus Ex Machina

Waited about 10 mins for a take out soy latte, place was almost empty. Cup was so hot it was impossible to hold. Took 15 mins to cool down to a point where it was drinkable. I would imaging the vibe is great in there when it’s busy and the décor is cool but with awesome coffee competition in the area, I won’t be back.

Very cool space here — the ambiance is great, communal tables, lots of wood, art all over the walls. It’s more trendy than hipster, but not pretentious. And its a big, open space. Certainly not a pokey little café.
Great spot to meet someone in, which is what I did. I hopped onto Unilocal and tried to find a place with good reviews that would be easy to find and it certainly was that. It also made me look smart, which for a professional meeting was important! Heheh… «great choice!»… «thank you!»… Ha!
(thanks Unilocal!)
Coffee is great, the staff were very friendly. The only reason I didn’t give the place 5 stars is cause I didn’t eat there. I have a feeling the food is probably great too. Just a hunch!!!
I’ll be back.

Yes, this place is pretty great. The coffee was excellent and the smashed avocado and coriander (with an added pork sausage) was excellent. Wandering in to have breakfast and then browsing customised motorcycles next door seems like a good Saturday morning to me.

Super cool store!

Deus is a very nice, communal-​style café. The atmosphere is excellent and so is the food (albeit standard café fare). But the café/​restaurant is only half of the store.
The only real reason to go out of your way for Deus is the clothes shop. Created by «that guy who made Mambo», the fashion arm of Deus is a combination of trendy, hipster and vintage. Which is very, very good btw. Although pricey, it’s a great clothes shop and being Deus’ halo store they have the whole range. There is also a large range of custom motorcycles which I always spend at least half an hour browsing, even though I am a car guy myself.
All in all Deus is a great shop with a decent café attached – not the other way around.

Deus Ex Machina, you tricked me.
After years of avoiding this place, due to it’s comparatively high prices and noisy Parramatta Rd location, I finally ventured in here after a visit to Deus’ Surry Hills Bicycle Works café (review:
). At Bicycle Works, I was surprised and delighted to find another subscriber to Little Marionette beans. My coffee was perfectly sweet, rich and lingering. So, when thinking of somewhere new to head for a coffee, I figured I’d finally give Deus Ex Machina a go — after all, if they’ve had Little Marionette beans this whole time then more the fool me.
So I ventured through the side door of Deus Ex Machina, hankering for a good coffee and with a good feeling that I was going to get one. The Deus shop was far bigger than I’d anticipated. And, despite how loud the venue was, it seemed the perfect place to get some work done — at least 15 people in here were working on laptops, iPads or even pen and paper (!), with another 5 — 10 still reading the paper. How then, with all these busily silent customers, does the place get so raucous? Because the shop itself is so big that it still fits another sizeable group of people, made up of loudly assertive business meetings, cooing Mum’s clubs (plenty of room to swing a pram) and young families. The dinging of kitchen bells contributes to the rising café soundtrack, as does the hiss, grind and occasional squeal of the coffee machine. And yet, as all the other working bees in Deus have obviously already found out, it’s extremely easy to find an inner peace bubble within this jungle of sounds.
The shop is filled with five long and stretching tables at which strangers sit side by side, plus another handful again of still large but smaller tables in simple wood on wood designs. The large windows are curtained with red velvet drapes and a range of pop art, film posters and various other greaser/​badass art hangs from the walls. A couple of motorbikes stand inside the shop and old surfing videos and cock fights play on the one plasma screen at the back of the café whilst Ella Fitzgerald trickles from the stereo. A table full of magazines and newspapers stands by the door and the menu itself, scrawled onto domineering chalk boards, adds to the artistic flair of this sizeable shop.
So yeah, the café is cool. Food looks yummy (sticking by my reasons for not coming here before — I still can’t afford to eat here!) and despite the noise, the ambience is fantastic. But how was the coffee? As soon as I ordered, I looked over at the machine in search for Little Marionette’s signature «I (heart) Benny» sticker. It was no where to be seen. Instead, I found a stack of takeaway cups emblazoned with Di Lorenzo’s red graphics. I had been tricked. The coffee was well made, but the beans weren’t the flavour I was after. Looks like I will have to get a better paying job so I can afford a different reason to come back to this super cool café.

I don’t really like going to places for breakfast that are busy which is quite unfortunate as those busy places are busy for a reason. They’re good!
Well the Café Dues Ex Machina is one place where I make an exception. It’s a great converted warehouse which does great coffee, breakfast and lunch and if that isn’t enough you can buy a motor bike from them! They also fix your bikes and there’s some clothing and accessories to purchase too.
It’s popular on weekdays but can be hard to find a spot in there on weekends as people catch up or mums and dad treat the kids to breakfast. It can get noisy in there but that just adds to the atmosphere and shouldn’t be a deterrent.
If you’re after a nice coffee and something to eat, or you need a new motorbike then it’s hard to look past the Dues Ex Machina.