Gypsy Espresso

Horrible service. A large coffee is $ 4.50(!!) and when I made the mistake of looking surprised at this, the waitress berated me and effectively said that if I was too poor to pay $ 4.50 I shouldn’t be there! She THEN implied that I was angling for a free coffee! I wanted to complain to the manager about her but — she IS the manager. Instead I’ll just never go back. Clever management choice seeing as I live in the same building as the coffee shop!

Lovely breakfast options. Servings are a bit small.
Este pequeño café cerca de la zona de King’s Cross pero para el lado residencial es muy muy paquete. Los productos son super frescos y la especialidad son los desayunos.
Comí uno con huevos revueltos, palta, salmón y queso de cabra que era una delicia y hermosamente presentado. Todos vienen así, el café es delicioso también.
La atención, como todo café de Sydney, es un 10. El lugar es chico pero le ponen onda y casi todo se puede llevar.
El tamaño de los platos no es el más grande del mundo. Es más, vi pasar una hamburguesa en una mesa vecina y parecía tan rica como pequeña. Pero si estás en onda media light, va como piña.

Only had the coffee here, so this review is only about the coffee. The coffee is good but not great, there is better coffee around the corner at Room 10.
The staff is extremely friendly and the atmosphere is cosy and cool.
But saying that if I just want a quick coffee I won’t be coming here compared to Room 10.

Nice vibe, well lit tiny café mainly serving coffee from three regions. Staff offered great options for specific tastes and the long slice was delish.

Delicious coffee, simple yet vibrant food (i has avacado, tomato and basil on toast and everything was bursting with flavour !) and a lovely owner. Good community feel — can’t beat it !

This is the café that made me feel at home and I miss it every single day. Perfect coffee, great sandwiches, calming environment, friendly baristas and good vibes that take the stress away and leave you with a smile on your face. Still couldn’t find a café like Gypsy in San Francisco.

My family and I were enjoying a lazy Sunday and decided on gypsy espresso, it appeared busy! Had funky clientele and cool red coffee cups.
Upon entering we were greeted the friendly staff who promptly took our order for food and coffee. The good times ended at this moment.
The first warning was Luke warm latte which had to be sent back. The milk had obviously been old and reheated. They generously replaced this with a great latte!
The long black I received was way too watery and flat in taste. The macchiato I was told was okay.
Three sandwiches were brought out 30 minutes later. The bread was hard toasted, and painful to eat. The fancy gruyère sandwich tasted like it had been made in a school canteen. There was no salt shaker in sight…
All in all it was terrible café experience For a Sunday in the middle of the day. I would definately recommend somewhere else.

5 stars for the coffee drinks
4 stars for the food
First, I had a decaf flat white and the roast beef sandwich. The decaf beans are Swiss-​Water process Sumatran and they make incredible espresso. It has a nice, casual bitterness with lots of deep, earthy flavors. After it sits for about 15 minutes, it develops a new sourness that is also subtle and not at all unpleasant. The foam was finely textured and the milk about as hot as it could be without hurting it (or me!).
The roast beef sandwich was fine — good even, but nowhere near as tasty as the coffee. The onions were nicely caramelized, but the sweetness overpowered the rest of the sandwich. Things that might have helped: more arugula and spicier mustard (though perhaps a little less of it).
For second breakfast (breakfast dessert?), I had a decaf iced coffee and a warm cinnamon roll. Again the coffee blew away the food, though the pasty itself was quite good. The iced coffee is made with condensed milk and comes somewhere between what an American would call a «sweet iced latte» and a Thai iced coffee. The complexity of the espresso plays nicely with the sweet milk.
The coffee is easily on par with the best coffee I’ve had in San Francisco, a place known for coffee snobbery.

Gypsy Espresso is a welcome addition to the King’s Cross/​Potts Point area of Sydney. As annual visitors we have been looking for a truly excellent spot for coffee and are happy Gypsy has taken over the spot on Manning formerly occupied by a Toby’s Estate outlet.
The venue receives five stars for excellence of coffee, wonderful scrambled eggs and most importantly for the fabulous staff. Everyone working the machine can pull a truly lovely espresso and from same make a wonderful drink. In addition to being great baristas, the folks working at Gypsy are friendly and ready with a smile. Many of the patrons of Gypsy are obviously regulars with the staff seeming to recognize regulars after two visits. If we hadn’t been working out way through the drinks offerings I suspect they would have known our favorites by the third visit.
Gypsy is highly recommended by two confirmed coffee addicts and with its much-​in-​evidence following we can rest assured it will be serving its excellent product upon our return next year.

This could be my new favourite place for coffee in Potts Point. The coffee is great, and really well made. The staff are friendly, and whilst I took mine away it looks like it would be a great place to chill with friends outside on a nice sunny day.
Coffee: Macchiato
Bean: Own roast, including a single origin
Crema: Good ⁹⁄₁₀
Overall Taste: Good ⁹⁄₁₀
Served in: Small paper take away cup
Preparation: Really well made, well poured and not too much milk. The coffee had a nice smoky (not burnt) taste to it.
Highly recommended.

Another fantastic boutique artisan roastery has quietly popped up in Potts Point, and it did so in true gypsy fashion. What until last week had been a Toby’s Estate is now Gypsy Espresso — a project from the bean-​Deity that is Gavin from Single Origin (or so the twitters tell me).
But name drip-​dropping aside, this coffee is fantastic. It could have been hot caffeinated butter I actually had in my mouth, considering the beautiful, smooth and rich blend I was guzzling down (and subsequently wanting to bathe in). More importantly, the kind folks behind the counter are obviously doing what they love and that passion directly translates into the pour. In the brief time I was there I learned about their small roastery in Bondi, that they hand pick only Arabica beans, and that they all completely stand behind everything they serve. What’s more, they stay open until 6pm and have what looks to be a cracking menu of breakfast and lunch items. Let’s just say I’m certainly glad this Gypsy has settled here.