The Butchers Block

Really cute café in Wahronga. I went just for coffee but wished I was having breakfast as they looked fantastic!!! It has a great atmosphere — very open and exposed brick. The staff were very friendly. And I had an excellent latte!
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Apart from the fact that it’s so popular, it really is a great café with delicious food options. It’s always worth the wait and staff are super friendly.

Excellent. Only ever had breaky here. Nothing bad to say about this place. Presentation is awesome and food matches the quality.
Service is awesome. Today a customer a few tables down made her poached egg fly off her plate. Without a word from the customer the manager already got another egg order for her.

Many of my friends ask for some well kept secrets of cafes out in the suburbs. Sadly the Butchers Block is not a kept secret because it is always crowded, and you will be most certainly told to wait for a table. However, it is crowded for a reason. As this is one of the better cafes in the area.
The coffee here is good and strong. They generally serve All press beans, but ask for the single origin it is better and worth the extra money. But the coffee is not the pull of this place but rather the food. The menu is small but good. There is the pulled pork burger, which is brilliant or the Peri Peri chicken wrap — with the freshest chicken I have ever had at a café.
If you are going to eat here, please try the tiramisu! It comes in a cup and is more authentic then I have ever had. Yep, it is not supposed to be a cake, but rather more of a trifle. And this is fantastic. Also, if you are into pastries, then try to the almond croissant, heavy but good.
Overall, this is a must stop if you are in the area. Not sure if I would travel out of my way, but if you are in the region, come on down!

I’ve been regularly coming here with friends over the past year. Ever since it’s opened, it’s always been constantly busy, and there’s no wonder as to why. The place has great service and amazing food! It’s a bit on the pricey side when considering the normal price of café food, but the service is super polite and efficient, especially considering the place is ALWAYS full. And the food is exceptional so there’s nothing I can complain about! You need to try the chicken burgers! Oh and their sweet potato chips — I’m in love.

A girlfriend suggested this place. And I invited another friend along. Thought I’d better check with Unilocalers. Wow, they gave it quite a bouquet of compliments. Let’s hope that it lives up to expectation!
We arrived 10.30 & needed to wait for a table to become available. I’d flagged with the others that we should have brunch here & not just a coffee, so we were seated accordingly. We were led to an airy table in the back area which was bordered on 2 sides with brick walls that housed a lush herb garden and I think some lemon trees.
The service was fabulous. Rocco and his team were friendly, helpful & let you feel that they were there to make your dining experience as wonderful as they could.
When the tea, latte & coffee came to the table we discovered there had been a minor mixup with my coffee order & that was swiftly fixed. And then a tasting plate of beetroot salad appeared as a way of ‘apologizing for the coffee mixup’ Where on this planet does that happen? Usually there’s a sigh, a tolling of eyes & even a challenge to take a polygraph test if an order doesn’t match what the waiter has brought!!!
I’m as happy as, & we haven’t even got to our food! The menu was a delight! What to choose, caus they all sound great???
One omelette, one Benedict with bacon, & my Pulled Pork Benedict. Everything looked great, but mine was Heavenly!!! I chose the best!!! I’m the winner!!!
One friend is going back for lunch tomorrow with her loved ones. That’s what she said.
Or perhaps she’s ducking back to order pulled pork anything or simply to enjoy great service in a great spot.
And she might see me there too!!!

The Butchers Block Wahroonga. It’s like Paddington on the North Shore.

Every once in a while I venture from the safety and warmth of middle-​class suburbia in Hornsby and wander, furtively and uninvited, into the the leafy, idyllic Wahroonga Village. Aside from the undiluted envy that I have for the locals fortunate enough to live in this little spot on the North Shore, the other feeling that eventually fights to the surface, in a far more dignified fashion, is an appreciation of the number of cafés and eateries in such a small area.
And the Butcher’s Block is one of the best. Here’s why:
* Staff — friendly, friendly, friendly. Every member of staff, (and there seems to be an endless procession of them), was smiling, attentive and could not have done their jobs better. We were with a friend and her twin baby girls. The staff, manager included, treated us like rock stars, especially the little ones. They made sure we had enough room, made sure we had exactly what we needed and served us like we were the only guests there. The place, I hasten to add, was packed with coffee people (yes, you can call them that… I think they actually like it).
* Service — see above. It just got better and better. We ordered right on the cusp of the kitchen’s changeover and it was no problem at all. They were so accommodating. Look, I have a new Xbox and I didn’t want to go home, ok? Enough said…
* The real test, the food — This is not a cheap place too eat, but I say that as a compliment, not a criticism. Sometimes, price really becomes irrelevant (well, within reason of course), because of the actual quality of your experience. The food here was fantastic. Served fresh, hot and within a great time frame, considering what I scribbled above. I had a burger that really belonged in the Louvre, not my stomach. Who can make a burger look this good? You know when you get a great dish put in front of you and you almost feel guilty for touching it? You feel like some pillaging Norse pagan as your steel slices into it; your blood’s rushing, your taste buds are holding your brain hostage… all of that stuff? Get a burger here and become a barbarian for one lunch time. They’ll love that you love it.
* Produce freshness — At the Butcher’s Block, fresher than a can of Glen 20. Wonderful salads and fruit, you can tell the people here do give a wide-​eyed toss about their work and how it’s going to taste. I hate it when you get a meal that’s full of filler. You know, salads that have about three sad little slices of tomato, a few withered strips of onion and chunks of what you dare to hope are cucumber? Then underneath you inevitably find a veritable mattress of lettuce that looks like a wild animal has been laying on it all night. And all this fun, smothered unlovingly with an indescribably underwhelming dressing that you become rapidly convinced had a former life as some type of lubricant. At any rate, get a salad here and all those nightmares are soothed right away.
* Presentation — this place is cleaner than Antarctica. The décor is really tasteful, lots of hard wood, bricks, tiles and in the summer, it would be a nice, cool haven. There’s a little garden behind where we sat, well-​tended and growing fresh produce while up the front, inside the door, the coffee people can sit and enjoy their time here as they eye off the prodigious amount of desserts, beautifully displayed in a pristine cabinet. The floor was spotless, the staff well presented and impeccably groomed.
Look, just go. If you can’t enjoy this place, you need to see your physician…

Amazing experience. Exemplary service from Rocko and his great team of wait staff.
The food. what can I say other than you will be pleased.

I am honestly astounded by this place.
The food might be slightly pricey but it will be the best café fare you’ve ever had.
I had their amazing Caesar Salad, but I hear the pie is killer and the specials including steak sandwich and risotto are great.
The décor is flawless and there is a great courtyard space out the back which is bright and airy.
But more than anything else, I was impressed by the staff at the Butcher’s Block. Every single member of their teal was amazing, courteous and obliging. Service was quick, and not a sign of stress despite a packed restaurant and a line out the door of patiently waiting (and hungry) customers.
If you’re up North go here. If you’re not up North, make the trip!

The Butchers Block makes living on the north shore bearable for the under-​40s. It is the most glam café north of Neutral Bay and the coffee is as good as any in the city. The staff are energetic and delightful and the service they provide is faultless. In terms of food, I have tried the truffle scrambled eggs, the ricotta hotcakes with banana and orange glaze, the lemon curd muffin and the quinoa toast — all were delicious… my favourite being the hotcakes. I will be back to sample more of the menu and the lush desserts ASAP. It can be hard to get a table amongst the locals as this café is consistently buzzing, but it’s well worth the short wait. I will definitely miss this gem when I return home to Amsterdam.

Andy and crew have done a fantastic job. Finally a little bit of the ‘best of inner city living’ makes it up north! Don’t take my word for it, just walk past and see how it is packed every day.

Wahroonga. Truly one of the most beautiful suburbs in Sydney, but its not really on the cutting edge of the food scene.
Speaking of cutting edge, we went to this place for lunch. Its not cutting edge, but it is great, its a superb renovation of an old butchery with selectively retained treasures like… I’ll give you one guess.
The space is amazing, super slick. The Wahroonga matrons look a bit out of place, but it doesn’t stop them from getting at least 50% of the seats. It should be full of younger people — its that kind of place.
The food is very good, burgers, sliders, pasta. The servings are huge, consider sharing plates if you don’t have the whole afternoon spare because your body will shut down for at least two hours to direct all its energy to digestion.
Hopefully this place will shake the other places round here out of their complacency. The other places are just plain normal, and ordinary. This is a very welcome «cut above».
We got told «the Block» (wanted to be the first to nickname it, maybe «Butchers»?) are waiting for a licence and will then open as a bar/​tapas joint — if so we will go as soon as we can.
Check it out, its a very cool spot and its in a beautiful part of Sydney.