Third Village

Slow service, cramped space and mediocre food. The coffee is OK, but I would recommend walking up Crown St for 2 minutes for better options.

Is it shallow to say that one of the main reasons I like this place is that on their loyalty card the 5^th coffee gets you 50% off one of their magical baked goods?
Seriously though, I’m not one to often splurge on a baked good but if you throw a 50% off incentive in front of me, I’m in… maybe for two (does that defeat the purpose???). Great range of paleo treats (get the paleo choc nut bar) as well as standard drool worthy options.
Coffee is good, staff is friendly and it’s warm and cozy inside if you want to sit for a bit.

Good ham and cheese croissant. They nailed the cheese. So good.
They have one of the best coffee on the street as well. I get their iced coffee on hot days.

I like the place! They serve good coffee, have nice staff and wraps to enjoy.
For a quick breakfast early morning an ideal place, the scrambled egg wrap is plain good, nothing to write home about, but fine.
Some seats outside on lovely Stanley Street, inside narrow and practical.
I come here often.

The concrete café /​is what it should be called, this place is alittle sterile and I think they tried to create something warm but it just didn’t turn out quite like that, coffee is good but that’s about it. It’s alittle too «Website designer and his graphic designer friend popping in to share an orange flavoured muffin» for me– I like my coffee with alittle more … Sexyness!

I’ve always loved streets with slightly awkward men’s names. Walter Street. Ulysses Street. And Stanley Street, of course, a gluttons paradise with a ton of restaurants and bars and restaurants masquerading as bars.
This time ’round I discovered Third Village, which is a terrace-​style joint that closely resembles a warm, inviting nook that I want to smoke cheroots and read Edgar Allen Poe in. Although that’s not really altogether practical, so instead I looked across the table at a big round-​bottomed beaker full of something fascinating and told the waiter «I’ll have that.» It was chai, delicious, warm chai, with that glorious layer of froth and spice sitting on top that looks as good as it tastes.
Then I got hungry. Although the omelettes looked damned appealing, it was getting closer to lunch than it was to breakfast and I feel weird eating brekkie outside the allotted hours (7 – 10:30) so I went for the roast beef roll, which came on a soft bun on a plate smeared artfully with seeded mustard, and which and was loaded with pickles and butter lettuce and tasted like the thinking man’s Reuben. Smashing, simply smashing.
Next time I’ll try upstairs, with a coffee, and an omelette. And maybe a good book.

This cosy little café is conveniently nestled on Stanley Street, amongst the little nest of restaurants and bars that I am slowly becoming addicted to. Sure, if you want to find another good café you need only walk a street or two, but for those too bloated after feasting at one of the small eateries then this is a great place to recover with a coffee (or two).
The café itself is lovely, they have really gone for the villagey feel (as per the name, I guess), and there are good seating areas both up and downstairs — making it bigger then one might first suppose. The service is friendly, and the outlook to the street lovely.
The coffee was quite good, and the combination with the café itself earns this place some extra points.
Coffee: Espresso
Bean: Toby’s estate
Crema: Fine ⁷⁄₁₀
Overall Taste: Fine ⁷⁄₁₀
Served in: Small cup (+1)
Preparation: Decent

Third Village is on one of my favourite streets in Sydney, Stanley street. The pretty houses marked by leafy trees feel quite European, and you’re only a 10 minute walk from the centre of the CBD!
Furthermore, it is home to the Third Village café. This café has already featured in the SMH’s good coffee guide, some people saying it’s the best coffee they’ve had in Sydney, so you know you’re already on safe ground. The coffee menu is fairly priced (around $ 3.50) and has a great variety. Any questions as to what each concoction exactly means is happily answered by the staff.
But it’s also the feel of the place that is so enticing. The modern feel of wooden floors and white walls is livened up with a bright painting of Oxford street along the entire length of one wall. There is one communal table, stocked with newspapers, as well as a number of smaller tables.
Despite its evident popularity the café isn’t noisy, as proved by the suited man who sat typing away on the communal table while I was there, clearly the perfect environment for working as well as relaxing.
There is also a really great menu for high-​class breakfasts as well as casual lunches. Even the toasties had really interesting ingredients such as thyme, roast pork and chilli jam. Yum!
If I lived here, this would most certainly be my local.