kürtösh

What Kurtosh does completely differently to other cake and coffee joints is extremely brave — they hold back on sugar and butter. And they bloodywell pull it off in the baked cheesecake I am sampling today.
Less sugar allows the nuttyness & caramelness to shine, from the thin biscuit base to the browned top. The cream cheese is the hero here.
It also means I can eat more — not sure if that’s such a good thing ;-)
The coffee is where they are let down. More crema needed in the day and age of quad ristrettos and single origin depth.
⁴⁄₅ on the way to 5.

Café is really busy and open until late. We went there around 9 in the night, but still had queued for bread. However the waiter served bread very fast. We didn’t wait too long to get all order. The bread is amazing, toasted on spot. Crunchy outside, but soft inside. Beautiful with coffee.

Positives: the cakes and pastries.
Ambience. That you can buy by weight.
Negatives: coffee isn’t great.
Service is slow and mishandled.
Favourites: Nutella kurtosh even though it needs way more Nutella. And the peanut butter chocolate ganache cake.

Love this little buzzing bakery. They cut delicious cakes as per the weight or size you want. What’s more, the Kürtosh is divine! It’s fresh hand-​made just in front of you, it’s crispy, soft and comes in a variety of toppings.
The more traditional cinnamon kurtosh was rolled in sugar and cinnamon. I think I enjoy unravelling them more than eating them, but they’re fun and something different. Worth a visit during a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Nice coffee, nice cakes
But why oh why — when you order 2 pieces of cake do they bring them out on one plate???
Bonus points for serving hot chocolates in an awesome children’s mug with teddy bears. Just plain awesome

The dessert offerings by Kürtosh are definitely unique. Cakes in the shape of colourful chimneys, unusual flavoured cakes — I’d never seen most of the selection before!
On tasting, I thought the cakes were better as eye candy than edible candy (although I’m not really into cakes or sweets so I’m not the best judge).
Overall, it’s a novelty and worth seeing once.

Love this place to go to after dinner, just make sure you leave some room — the selection is extensive! After a few visits, and with your desert ordered by weight, I recommend asking for 50g slices if you want to try a few. Favourite has to be the strawberry sponge. Would be 5 stars except the coffee is not the best so I would just stick to the beautiful array of desserts :)

Love this place, especially for dessert after dinner out at one of the many restaurants along Willoughby Road, partially due to the great atmosphere. My favourite is the nutella chimney cake ($ 9.50), best shared with your other half, plus they do good tea in funky little tea pots.
The only let down is the wait in the evenings for your chimney cake (if it’s busy, around 15 minutes). One night they were close to closing (at 10pm), and took our order but said it would be take-​away, including the drinks. As I then finished my tea before our chimney cake was ready, would have been good to not have it take-​away style! They could also benefit from a few more seats (it’s a tad empty), although I usually manage to find one.

Had a coffee and pastry there this morning with my 4 years old
Great coffee but as we ordered a mushroom pastry for my little one the barista placed it in the microwave and went to sit down to her staff and coffee meal .
After 10 mn I realised no one will bring the pastry I did enquire if they remembered the pastry .
We did finally got it but we only 2 customer in the shop for 4 staff members even with one of them in training you will expect a bit more of customer service focus !!!

The kurtosh’s have a little too much glaze on the outside and they are a little overpriced. Other than that i highly recommend, their cakes that you order by weight are delish too!

Ok ok so I don’t really see why there is so much love for the place. It’s average at the most.
Two things I have to admit it is pretty inside and the coffee’s are amazing.
I however find the cakes to be pretty meh. They taste below average. I have had better and I have seen better. The tiramisu I had was ok though. Aldi and Coles tiramisu is better though.
The service is ok, girls behind counter are rather slow and not very friendly. The barista is amazing. She was alone and she made about 20 coffees in 6 minutes. I was impressed.
Don’t think ill be back though.

In a crowded market, every café owner is looking for a hook. For Kurtosh, it’s the eponymous delicious tower cakes.
These Hungarian delicacies come with a fair bit of their own entertainment as you watch the theatre of their construction unfold in front of you.
Kurtosh also has large square trays of cakes from which you can select, but these are of a generally poorer quality to the namesake delicacies.
Inside, it’s all hard surfaces so it gets noisy when there are more than a few groups.

Super nice coffee and cakes ! Even writing this review makes me want to go there !
Will come back and upload a picture soon because I am definitely going there this weekend !

Coffee is very ordinary.
Very large selection of cakes.
Atmosphere is non existent
But the cake was delicious

Some of the best coffee in crows nest. Wide range of fresh, tasty cakes so you’ve got something for everyone. Tends to get quite busy on the weekends but you can usually get a seat. Would recommend any of the chocolate cakes and the flavoured cheesecakes are great!

I’d only been to the Kurtosh in Darlinghurst before, and this was a nice surprise — it was a lot bigger, and quieter, so it was a really good place to sit and enjoy dessert and conversation with a friend.
The desserts, as usual, did not disappoint. Same system as other Kurtoshes — you can order as much or as little as you like. This time round I had something (sorry, I forgot its name) which was being peddled as a Ferrero Rocher type cake, and a chocolate caramel pecan bar. My friend had cheesecake. All good, but the runaway winner was the chocolate caramel pecan bar. Mmm.
The desserts are actually pretty cheap for what you get, it’s the drinks that are standard café prices (read: a bit pricy, but then that’s Sydney). I love being able to try a bunch of different things! Maybe next time I’ll take away and enjoy it at home with as much tea as I want. :P

Ever been stuck between a pug and a sweet place?
Such was my dilemma. Had just finished breakfast with my mum when we strolled past Kurtosh. Sweet, sticky, inviting bakery smells washed over us like the pheromones of some great and vengeful donut god. Mum turned into The Flash and disappeared inside, last I saw she was pawing through all the sample boxes trying bites, well, everything.
I wanted to go in and order everything but I had Minky with me, snuffling about and straining on the leash to get inside the store. I sat with her a while but the sight of people streaming out into the sun stuffing their happy weekend faces with delights I don’t even have names for was too much, and I tied her to a tree and ignored her sad, plaintive whining while I got me some kind of caramel slice loaded up with salted peanuts and ate it while she watched.
Sorry not sorry.

My friend took us to the Surry Hills branch a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been in love with Kurtosh ever since. Luckily for me, this branch in Crows Nest exists and is ideally located near my work. I’ve been going at least once a week to try something new each time.
So far, I’ve tasted the baked cheesecake, lemon crumble cheesecake, spiced carrot cake, orange and olive oil sponge, cinnamon and walnut and nutella kurtosh. All of them have been really good, except for the baked cheesecake which was a bit ordinary, if not bland. The nutella kurtosh is worth a special mention, the bread is soft and crunchy at the same time and had the perfect amount of nutella and hence did not make the kurtosh overly sweet. My workmate who is a self-​confessed cheesecake lover fell in love with the lemon cheesecake and now seems to have a weekly craving for it.
The cakes are sold by weight so you can get as little or as big as you want. It’s handy if you want a taste of everything without spending and eating too much. They have a selection of samplers as well to help you decide what to get.

I do not understand how this has not been reviewed yet. An awesome place to sit and relax with a coffee and cake — or you can try their namesake Kurtosh which is a type of spiralled doughnut.

Hmm the wafting smells of sugar, coconut and cinnamon… such a delight!
As we walked in after dinner and because the weather was overcast the store appeared to be dark inside probably due to their minimal lighting. I think they’re going for that dark seductive ambiance vibe or I could be way off!
After browsing the various collections of cakes (cakes the size you could put your whole face on!) we decided on ye good olé Kurtosh — cinnamon of course although the coconut was a good contender.
$ 7.50 for one and made fresh to order which only took about 5 minutes which we happily sat around to wait for.
The interior is an industrial style with exposed brick and dim lighting. As you walk in the cakes and pastries selection is on the left and straight ahead is their coffee station with a massive coffee machine! Down the back to the left is a large communal table for bigger groups etc.
Will have to pop by again, as they have cute cups they serve their tea/​coffee in and also to try their cookies and cream cake i spied earlier.