Gino’s Cafe

¹⁄₁ star for service
¹⁄₁ star for ambience.
⁰⁄₃ star for food & drink
Put simply it’s got a great local feel with a lot of ‘locals’ hanging around and having a laugh. Service is also attentive.
Food and drink though left a lot to be desired. I ordered a flat white that was pretty average, more of a latte with very weak coffee.
The orange juice was just from a bottle.
I also ordered the eggs Benedict. The muffins were warm but not cooked, it was cold ham placed on top and warm eggs (although well cooked and runny in the middle) with very minimal Bernaise sauce.
The above 3 items were aud25.00 so can’t even say its value for money unfortunately.

Good coffee and average food. Ambience and cleanliness could be improved upon but staff were friendly and enthusiastic.

Food service was a little slow but the fantastic (FAST) coffee and friendly service made up for it. I’ve been back several times. Favourite coffee I’ve found in Fremantle so far.

I dig their affogato and the classic Italian main-​street-​café vibe.

We stopped here in the searing heat on our tour of Fremantle. The service was quick and the drinks were not expensive and my lemon lime bitters was so refreshing. I should come back for a meal and a few glasses of wine!

Great affagato! :)
One of the best coffees ever! Definitely give this place a try :)

I like it food is good so is the coffee, ordering at the counter is a bit of a pain but getting used to it. Il be back!

It’s hard to imagine Fremantle without Gino’s. One of our longest standing café’s, this place is an institution locally. The coffee is always amazing and if you’re a local, you’re guaranteed to know at least a fifth of the people in the café. If you’re looking for some of Fremantle’s famed bohemian element, you’ll probably find some of them hanging out in the outdoor seating area on the corner; it’s not unusual to find someone gently strumming their guitar in the corner or to see a young theatre group bickering about who gets to play the lead in their next production. The café also serves a range of Italian food and alcohol (with meals only), but it’s most popularly known as the best place in town to get coffee. This is evidenced by what often appears to be a daunting line for orders; don’t be put off though, the baristas here are completely ninja and will work their way through to you in no time. Simply put, this is the best place in Fremantle to go out for coffee and get amongst the locals.

I enjoy this place, it is in a prime location with an amazing outside seating area. I had a delicious coffee from there, true Italian style coffee which in my opinion is the best.
I had a big piece of cake, which wasn’t really that great. It tasted like a pre bought cake that had been kept in the fridge for a few days. Nothing fresh nothing homemade. If it was homemade that must have cooked it a few weeks ago, it was bland and tasted old.
I enjoyed the overall experience, outside with my coffee and cake, looking around at the strange Fremantle folk.
Just a shame about the cake!

Fremantle offers a great variety of cafes and restaurants to sit down for a bit to eat or a cup of coffee. Today my friend and I were in much need of a sugar/​caffine kick and decided to on Gino’s café out of the lot as it seemed busy and had a delicious selection of cakes. It is a bit of a pity though that our ice mocha’s were hot, especially as today is a sweltering 30 odd degrees and all we desired was a refreshing icy drink. The marble cake was yummy, more of a chocolatey cheesecake texture than what we thought but still good, I probably would of chosen something else though, apart from none of the cakes had signs on and the staff were too busy to answer your questions. Whilst we enjoyed it, we left ¾ of the cake and about ½ of our ice mochas, for $ 25 dollars we could of had servings half the size and enjoyed every mouthful than letting it go to waste and pay what we did.
Now looking at the menu online I see there are many other options available than simply cakes, however when I asked if they had a menu with other types of food on I was told no, it’s only the drink chalk board menu and the cakes in the fridge in front of me. Overall Gino’s just wasn’t bad, but it definitely wasn’t great either.

When I first arrived in Fremantle, Gino’s was the first café I went to. Coincidentally, it was also the very first café on Fremantle’s famous café strip. Back in the day, the shop used to actually be a tailor’s, owned by a young Italian immigrant who decided to quit complaining about Fremantle’s lack of prime espresso, and open up his own shop. And so Gino’s café was born!
Now run by Gino’s son and daughter, Gino’s Café is a little bit of history right on South Terrace. Throughout the decades, it’s maintained a very authentic Italian café feel despite the influx of trendy, kitschy cafes popping up and taking over Perth’s coffee culture. Gino’s serves as a kind of landmark on South Terrace — it’s impossible to miss the packed out Al Fresco dining area which is brimming with an assortment of Freo local and tourists any time of day or night, so it’s also a good idea to meet people here if they’re not familiar with the area. It’s a great place to just people watch, as I occasionally do outside with my usual mug of black coffee. Inside, you’ll feel like you’ve taken a step back in time to the café’s very first days, or perhaps as if you’ve hopped on a plane to Italy and are about to order an authentic spag bowl courtesy of a very generous Nonna! The vibe is busy, busy, busy. As such, service isn’t first class. They hire a lot of travelers, so it didn’t quite have that «family owned» feel that everyone raves on about. But what I truly like about Gino’s is that it isn’t trying too hard. No hint of pretension or competition. Gino’s just merely has to make coffee and the people come.
The menu is a mixture of modern Australian cuisine and traditional Italian. There are A LOT of options to choose from. For lunch, they’ve got Pannini’s with a wide variety of fillings, foccacias, bagels and burgers all served with chips or salad (and honestly, who does that anymore? Double score!). Dinner is a similar carbohydrate feast, with lots and lots of pasta, pizza and garlic bread. Unfortunately for me, their gluten-​free options are almost non-​existent. They do have loads of vegetarian options though, clearly marked with a little love heart next to the menu item. Comforting, homemade style food is their specialty, and servings looked incredibly generous!
Gino’s has also got to have the largest coffee menu I have ever seen. If you do visit Gino’s, bid adieu to your regular coffee order just for one morning and order something different. Personally, I like adding some of their liquers to my coffee, but if something sweet is more your bag, then go an Affogato.