Fernside Coffee Shoppe

Best value sandwiches in the area, and the coffee is pretty good to boot.
BLAT on Turkish for $ 9.50? Sign me up… Club Sandwich for $ 12.50? Yes please… Burger and potatoes for $ 12? I’ll have that as well…
The staff here are super nice as well, as they have outdoor seating and don’t mind pets.
Coffee is Campos, so you can expect a quality cup.
The rest of the menu is delicious and affordable, like the fritters.
Definitely find myself here a bit.

Little and very friendly coffee shop on the edge of surry hills. Es chiquita, tiene onda, buena comida y tiene wifi gratis, una rareza en Sydney realmente.
Te atiende un gordo monumental con una sonrisa tipo shrek, un capo. y la comida es bastante rica y abundante. Recomiendo el playo del día que cambia y es barato o la ensalada del medio oriente que viene con cordero, yorgur, cebolla, hummus y cosas así.
El café es muy bueno y hacen unos exprimidos naturales bastante copados.
Pasamos unas horas trabajando desde ahí y siempre nos sentímos cómodos y bien recibidos. Un go.

If the The Goods on Crown is too far away. And I feel like a close to home Big Breakfast, Fernside is my place to go. The customers that come in are so diverse, one morning you will be sitting next to American tourists, the other day you’re standing next to a pensioner that just wants to read the Sydney Morning Herarld. Although diverse, you do see an awful lot of hipsters.
The issue I have with most of the hipster places around Surry Hills or Redfern is the interior, most of these cafes are designed for the hip people around Surry Hills and there for you sit, not on nice comfy seats, but on a milk crate or a chair found at some second hand shop. The tables aren’t much better. It’s not that anything is dirty, it’s the style. Doesn’t make me spend an afternoon chilling at Fernside, but rather do my thing and leave.
Luckily the food at Fernside is delicious, recently they changed there menu a bit and removed the hash brown from the big breakfast. This was a very good idea because the home-​made hashy didn’t taste that good. The breakfast consists of two eggs, sausage, roasted tomato, shit load of bacon, two slices of bread, spiced beans and potato wedges. Not sure if the wedges are actually on the menu. I only got three so maybe there weren’t for my breakfast and got put on my plate accidentally. Nevertheless they where great.
The amount you get at Fernside is crazy, when they mean a big breakfast, it is a big breakfast. I didn’t even finish it all. The beans and tomato where the highlight, which in my case is weird, normally it would be the bacon or sausages that get all the credit, the beans have so much flavour and go very well with the eggs.
Not only the breakfast but also the cinnamon scrolls are fucking amazing. They are massive and you need to be hungry if you want to eat one by yourself. Coffee is great too. But like I said in other reviews: getting bad coffee in Sydney is harder then to find then a good one.
All and all Fernside is a great place, from the breakfast to the cinnamon scroll and from the coffee to the milkshakes.

Coffe is delicious. I never have more than one coffe but the flat whites were so good I considered having 3. Food is good too. Corn fritters are great but the big breakfast was a bit average. Small space so pitch a tent and mark your territory early.

awesome music, delicious coffee, super friendly staff. the menu looks delicious, too, though i cant vouch for it (yet)

Just wonderful little place. Agree whole-​heartedly with all preceding Unilocalers!

I can’t say enough good things. This small and hospitable café welcomed me with open arms from the moment I arrived in Sydney. If I could transport it to my current city I would in half a heartbeat.
This became a daily coffee and breakfast destination during my week-​long stay in Sydney. I loved all of the simple and delicious breakfast offerings (the scrambles on toast were exactly what I was hoping for) and obviously the peerless flat white. Seriously, this was the first coffee I tasted upon touching down in Sydney and provided an outstanding first impression into the fine art of coffee done the Aussie way.
You’ll find an incredibly friendly staff behind the counter here. They were kind enough to provide recommendations in Sydney and beyond (even leading us to another great café in Brisbane called the Rogue Rennard (
) and even recalled my exact order from day to day.
Communal table and free wifi make this spot an almost irresistible workspace for a freelancer or work-​from-​homer.

Cute little café with a simple menu and friendly service. The corn fritter dish is tasty, neat little corn pancakes topped with tomato salsa and avo or their house made chorizo salsa. Looks to be a crowd favourite, along with the bacon grill.
The coffee is nothing worth writing home about, but once it cooled from the scolding hot temperature it was served at, very drinkable.
Bit of a pokey little space (so please watch where you walk with your coffee, lest you accidentally let someone wear it down the back of their dress like I did. Thankfully this man had been sitting with his coffee a while because if his coffee was as hot as mine I’d have lost my skin!)

Let’s get one thing straight… I like my coffee like I like my work ethic– gotta be fast, do the job and take no prisoners!
You can’t Unilocal but feel a sense of friendship when entering Fernside. So much so that the large latte with no sugar ends up becoming a large latte no sugar, full breakfast, great chats, a laugh and a positive start to the day.
Keep an eye out for the caramel slice and make sure you let some dressed Turkish toast pass your lips!

Consider the bandwagon jumped… (on?)
Luckily, everything about Fernside is better than my opener.
First, the venue itself is lovely. A large communal table in back, a couple desk-​y spots in the front alongside crates and tables for two. It’s simple, toned-​down and instantly comfortable in the way your «I come here everyday» coffeeshop should be. The open kitchen means that even if you’ve just popped in for a coffee, the drool-​inducing wafts will beckon you to reconsider, which brings me to my second point…
All-​day eggs benny. And even if that’s not tempting enough, the menu is both deep and wide and ranges the aforementioned triple-​stack corn fritters and bacon egg rolls to muesli and yogurt. Since I truly believe lunch to be the meal of champions, went for a tuna sando, but was quickly put to shame by some sort of bacon and avo sandwich. It was a monstrosity in the most offensively awesome sense of the word. Like a dinosaur.
Third? Guitars for guests. I’ve never seen anything like it. Just guitars. Sitting out. Waiting to be played.
With wifi that fast (and free!), smoothly poured Campos coffee, and staff that I’m already ready to introduce to my parents, the only downside is the distance of Fernside from my bed and the fact that I’d likely* have to put pants on to make the trek.
*but up for sincere consideration

BB is right. This place is the bomb. Great coffee, relaxed atmosphere, and the food is excellent. They also have guitars available for anyone who feels like entertaining the crowd.
I had a bit of food envy when I was here though — I ordered the salmon benedict, when I so so so should have ordered one of the delightful looking bruschetta options. So fresh and so lovely! My benedict was delicious too, but… you know how it is with hollandaise, you really want it, but once you have it, it’s all too rich and gooey and you long for something lighter. Yeah, I heard you. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.
I got here pretty early on Sunday — I can imagine this place would be hard to get a spot at on weekends. But at 9 on a Sunday, it was easy.

Fernside is my Find Of The Month (I just made that category up now but I feel like it’s something that could stick.)
This epic, laid-​back, whimsical little café radiates hipster cool without any of the douche. The owner is a straight up dude, friendlier than a Labrador, who’s worked at a Rozelle café for years before branching out on his own. Fernside is the result. It’s only been open for 5 months but they’ve nailed the formula already, it’s the perfect blend of velvety coffee, sunny aspect, and triple-​stack corn fritters with chorizo salsa. Oh, did I not mention those? Because they’re only THE GREATEST THING EVER. Ahem. As you were.
Special props to the super-​cool waitress who also moonlights at Toko for her friendly chat and megawatt smile.
Cannot rate this place highly enough.