Deck

The Northern beaches has never really been a hot bed for amazing coffee. You can certainly find one or two cafes here and there, but most of it is a dead zones along the coast. Thankfully, this café offers a brilliant option, to sit right on the beach, and drink great coffee.
All of my café reviews are based of of three things. Passion, crema (skill), and coffee (roaster), as any café that has all three gives you the best chance for a great cup of coffee. The current head barista here is a SCAA certified trainer, and has passion about coffee in bucket loads. What’s more important, that passion has started infecting the other staff. While it is early days, this café has lots of potential. Likewise with skill, with an in house trainer, I can not believe it will be long before they are all up to scratch, but they are heading in the right direction.
Finally, these guys have recently switched over to Single Origin Coffee and are looking forward to showing off what they can do with the coffee.
If you are in the area, this is going to be a café that you’ll want to check out.
Passion: ⁸⁄₁₀
Crema: ⁸⁄₁₀
Coffee: Single Origin Roasters

No longer called ‘The Deck’ but now ‘Pelican Pavilion’, the lack of attention to this social media detail was clear.
This has always been a favourite spot f of mine for a long time. I decided to bring my lady down for a casual Sunday brunch.
The location is amazing. Always has been. I love what the owner has done with the décor. The staff were all friendly, except the girl who took my order. She was uninterested, boring and clearly didn’t want to be at work that day.
Props to the American fella who brought our cappuccinos complete with a little chocolate powder pelican design stencilled onto the foam.
Our water cups weren’t very clean so I gave them a quick re-​rinse with the bottle of water.
The food was satisfying but with one let-​down… a very second-​rate slice of processed cheese was used on my Reuben sandwich. Otherwise it was tasty and as a Reuben should be.

Awesome view — shame about the rest! The coffee was burnt and the food was very very ordinary, especially for the prices charged. Order bruschetta and it was nothing more than some toast with chopped up tomato and spanish onion. Also got nachos and it was just meat and cheese over some chips — no tomato, salsa, or any other usual ingredients. You can’t get any closer to the beach but honestly next time I’d get take away from somewhere else and sit on the sand.