Cafe Jolly

Leichhardt, Australia

4.5

Open now

10 reviews

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Telephone:
+61 2 9560 2434
Address:
158 Norton St, Leichhardt, New South Wales, 2040
Leichhardt
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.3 mi204024
0.3 mi204027
0.4 mi204026
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepted Cards
Credit, Debit
Good For
Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Loud
Alcohol
Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Waiter Service
Yes

Today

Today 8:30 am – 12:00 am
Open now
Local time (Leichhardt) 13:18 Saturday, 31 May 2025

Business hours

Monday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Tuesday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Wednesday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Thursday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Friday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Saturday 8:30 am – 12:00 am
Sunday 8:30 am – 12:00 am

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10 reviews of Cafe Jolly

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Place rating: 5
Melbourne, Australia
Such kind customer service from a Thai lady. Food was great. Besides menu listing of Italian dishes and yummy sandwiches there are also 5 daily specials listed on the black board. Got served very fast on a friday during lunch.
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
Delicious fettuccine boscaola, wider than usual fettuccine ribbon, plenty of bacon & mushroom … yum! Look forward to meeting friends for lunch or dinner there again!
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
Wonderful and delicious ! We’ve been back every month since we stumbled on Café Jolly at the end of last year. It is our «go to» restaurant and we delight in introducing our friends to this little gem.
Food is delicious and plentiful. Décor is friendly not pretentious. We never order an starters because the servings are SO big and we always scrape the plates clean !
After a walk we can sometime manage a gelato from down the road !
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
This Italian restaurant is Asian owned and it is truly a gem! Their dishes are just delicious!
We usually order the honey and cheese bread to start with and that in itself is *drools* and the prawns is another of my favorites, cooked to perfection.
The lamb chops comes with mash potato, spinach and this incredible sauce. The seafood dish can feed two and equally yummy!
Definitely, give this establishment a visit soon! The owners are very friendly and accommodating. Overall, friendly, welcoming and delicious!
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
My fav little Italian place. It’s always been quite busy whenever I go there. What I like about the place is the quality good food and quick service.
It’s also BYO so you can shop next door at the Italian cellar shop for fine Italian wine to go with your food.
I have been going to this place for years and it has not let me down before. Some ppl comment that the chef looks Chinese, and therefore the food must not be authentic. I’d say give it a go and try the food before voicing your opinion. If you cook Italian food as deliciously, you’ll get loyal customers regardless of your skin colour (not that it should be a deciding factor anyway). I highly recommend the pollo jolly and honey chilli cheese bread.
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
We’ve been going here for about 10 years now. As with all the other comments, the service is consistently friendly. The food is always consistently good. The restaurant is owned by a Chinese couple, Annie and her husband. Annie manages front of house consistently with good service, good coffee/​hot chocolate all with the most infectious giggle. Annie’s husband manages the kitchen with aplomb. If you’re hungry… go the veal bomb. A special that was so popular it became permanent. You’ll be hard pressed to get a better meal with good service at an outstanding price on Norton St.
Place rating: 3
Leichhardt, Sydney, Australia
Always good.
Good value, good food, good service, consistently good.
Also discovered by accident they do take away.
Place rating: 3
Australia
Excellent spaghetti gamberoni (red sauce with wine, king prawns, bacon and chilli). Average fettuccine boscaiola. Big serving sizes at reasonable prices (about $ 16 per pasta). Friendly waitstaff.
Place rating: 4
Baulkham Hills, Australia
What can you say about Café Jolly except that it is weird, but nicely weird. It’s run by Chinese and it serves Italian food and some of those Italian meals have never been served in Italy.
Like Chinese dishes, many of the meals on the menu have made up names but the food is good — the combinations are a little strange but they work.
At night it’s always busy but the waitresses run around serving food always smiling, I love it. You can have a meal or just a cup of coffee, you can sit inside looking out opened windows or you can sit outside with the hustle and bustle of Norton St.
I love it for its eccentricity, it’s great.
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
If there’s a café in all the world that I would say everyone knows my name. That is the staff at least. If there’s a restaurant I go to on regular enough of a basis that I could be called a regular, if there’s a café that makes me feel at home it would be Café Jolly on Norton Street.
I’ve not found anywhere so welcoming as Café Jolly, a place where I like to go and sit and drink coffee, do some work, read a book and just feel relaxed, none of this, ‘ooh i’m in a public place anxiety.’ which I sometimes feel, sure, I’m a writer, I’m not supposed to be in social environments too often.
But why is this place so different? Why is it so conducive to deep thought and good work?
For starters, the coffee is really good, the food is at a reasonable price, the breakfast especially fantastic. Fruit salads, big breakfasts, eggs benedict. But the thing that really stands out for me are the people who work there.
They create a really warm environment and one that makes you want to go back again and again and again. It’s not too fancy, it’s not a massive place, it’s a casual eatery and café but it’s the place where I’ll bring people to show off what a great place I’ve found.
Where do you want to meet? Shall we say Jolly at 11? Perfect!