Where to drink and eat in Coffs Harbour

It’s been an energising 2 years for the Mid North Coast’s meals scene, which stays to develop in self-confidence and uniformity, and this recent plant of eating institutions aren’t any exemption. This time we’re primarily concentrating on Bellingen and Coffs Harbour, with a mixture of brand-new areas and people soon-to-open, plus quite a few outdated favorites fully motion.

For drinks with a sight

Stef & Co is a classyCoffs Harbour beachfront bakeshop, espresso store and downstairs bar from the earlier proprietor of the Jetty’s treasured Fiasco eating institution. Hidden away within the Promenade difficult, the eating institution stands out straight above Coffs Creek with stylish winds blowing off the eco-friendly water caught to mangroves.

Hot drinks are from the wellness playbook– medical mushroom-laced cacao, as an example– whereas the liquor itemizing is a restricted assortment of Italian and Australian pink wines and scrumptious combined drinks. A Euro- leaning meals choice listings a lot of snackable, shareable options for casual consuming, and the pizza range terminates out simply lined requirements. Hot data: a Sicilian osteria by the exact same proprietors outcomes from open up following door in very early 2025.

319-321 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour, stefandco.com.au

For espresso

Longtime espresso roasters Amelia Franklin (founding father of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance Australia) and Toby Smith (creator of Toby’s Estate) developed Amelia + Toby in 2024, toasting pure Fairtrade beans each week and starting a cooperation with smart-casual favouriteFiume What that implies resides within the eating institution’s outside patio and bar location and growing up distinctive espresso every day. They make use of high quality completely different milks, and have pure loose-leaf teas, sticky chai and a powerful number of wellness-boosting drinks.

58 Hyde Street, Bellingen, ameliaandtoby.com.au

For fish, chips and hamburgers

While not exactly “new”– the riverfront retailer has truly primarily stayed in enterprise contemplating that the 1800s– a modification of possession has truly seen a modern refit atNorth Beach General Store This space pumps laborious all through holidays, with a mesh river swimming pool and youngsters’ play floor all through the roadway, carbonated water sights, and the spectacular, wild sea of North Beach one block away. Roll up for broken fish tacos, hamburgers, and conventional chips ready usually in lard. Dogs charge.

16 George Street, Mylestom, northbeachgeneral.com.au

For beer and pizza

“What’s happening at the Brewery?” is the priority on residents’ lips which can be lacking out on the staple neighborhood bar which has truly been primarily closed contemplating that COVID. Set to open up in very early 2025, Bellingen Brewery‘s pleased brand-new proprietors are siblings Nick andCharlie Boshier Will there still be natural, sourdough pizzas?Yes The wood-fired stove has actually been walled-in and there’s a brand-new prep cooking space upstairs with methods to broaden the meals choice. Nine taps put neighborhood beers (consisting of 4 house-made mixtures), and there are superior combined drinks with neighborhood gins and vodkas. Will there nonetheless be on-line exploring bands and DJs? Absolutely.

3/5 Church Street, Bellingen, instagram.com/bellingenbrewingco

For the complete gang

Aanuka Beach House obtained a shot of glam in 2024 with a requisition by Sydney friendliness staff Tilley & &Wills They have truly gone for it to permit the good occasions roll: delighted hours, limitless breakfasts, sundowner spritzes, movement image evenings, fish and shellfish buffets and DJs– Aanuka understands simply how you can celebration and simply how the botoxed groups clothed to the nines take pleasure in it. Out the again, an unlimited verdant space rolls delicately to the protectedDiggers Beach Here, it’s much more of a towel-and-thongs ambiance with family-friendly video video games. Who’s up for a quick spherical of quoits?

11 Firman Drive, Coffs Harbour instagram.com/aanukabeachhouse

For smart-casual consuming

Run by Fiona Richardson and prepare dinner Megan Black, Fium e had a full rebrand in 2024 loosening up the process for a way more casual ambiance and relocating from an Italian meals choice to a modern-day Australian providing. Perhaps a tuna crudo with celeriac puree or pork cussed stomach with zucchini and capers? Always showcased are Nambucca oysters provided all-natural with an eschalot mignonette, and fish and shellfish is fresh-that-day off the Coffs’ trawlers. In numerous different data, Fiume at the moment does breakfast Friday to Sunday, additionally.

58 Hyde Street, Bellingen fiumebellingen.com.au

For resort consuming

After a considerably tough start, Three Blue Ducks has truly resolved completely proper intoThe Lodge The refurbished hotel-motel flaunts 16-acres and excellent hill sights of Dorrigo National Park, and there’s a lot of room within the no-expenses-spared dining-room (with means for 200 guests, wedding ceremony occasions are successful). It’s superb match for a protracted, careless lunch, and on Sundays there’s an entire roast with all of the trimmings.

1381 Waterfall Way, Bellingen threeblueducks.com/bellingen

For refined French

You can rapidly miss out on Miquette, a natty French espresso store in a refined strip of midtownCoffs Views there aren’t, nevertheless that is the realm should you take pleasure in French emotions– proprietors Edouarde and Jade Deschamps glad whereas working at famend Paris eating establishmentBistrot Paul Bert Expect buttery breads, stuffed up baguettes, and texturally incredible crepes. On Friday, Miquette stays open until 8pm for drinks and meals (and stay songs on the very first Friday of each month).

214 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour, miquette.com.au

For breads, pies and bread

New developments are important at Peaches Patisserie, the two-year-old patisserie the place proprietor Beth O’Loughlin cooks seasonal offers with. In summer season season, you’ll be able to try a blueberry bread after that head to Boss Blueberries the place the fruit is expanded and select some by yourself. Start the day with chilly combination from neighborhood micro-roaster Full Spectrum at Supply Coffee in Coffs, embrace a waterfall discovery and Dorrigo’s mountain-town attraction, and it’s a tops nation outing all spherical. Back down capital, Hearthfire cooks unbelievable pure, woodfired sourdough loaves and made-from-scratch pies.

Peaches Patisserie, 53 Hickory Street, Dorrigo; Boss Blueberries, 24 Emersons Road, Bostobrick; Supply Coffee, 15 Orlando Street, Coffs Harbour; Hearthfire, 73 Hyde Street, Bellingen and 9A First Avenue, Sawtell

Highlights from The Sydney Morning Herald 2025 Good Food Guide

Bruno’s

A refined perfume of smoking cigarettes hardwood stays behind the easy-to-miss door of this restaurant off Bellingen’s defeated course. Where there’s smoke, there’s fireplace, and under it’s blazing– licking salted, plump king shellfishes in a while soaked in fermented chilli butter; items of zucchini teamed with house-preserved lemon; and a preposterously succulent pork slice that features smoked fennel and silky apple sauce. Banquette seats is the perfect space to benefit from the exercise, nevertheless it’s the doubtful tables on the verandah that actually make this glossy Mediterranean eating institution seem to be dwelling.

2 Oak Street, Bellingen brunosbellingen.com.au

Bar Que Sera

Snack- sized options match the tiny dining-room of this comfortable bar and eating institution, with its timber floorings and traditional flooring tiles, and super-fluffy sourdough flatbread with sumac-whipped labne and charred butter is one thing of a trademark. Meanwhile, crispy, buttery crumpets are mixed flawlessly with Balmain pest, lemon mayo and chives, whereas the power of swine rillettes is decreased with mustard and marinaded onions. Kicking off following door with a neighborhood brew at Que Sera’s dive-style sibling bar Morty’s Joint is a superb idea (and Morty’s fried hen is sort of banging, additionally.)

61 First Avenue, Sawtell, bar-que-sera.com

Charlie’s at Church
This green-toned, warm-lit Italian is the realm to be on a Friday night inBellingen Beneath necklace lights, seats is conveniently spaced, with space for nice staff to bounce in between tables. Pepperoni and pesto sourdough pizza is an emphasize, plucked the precise 2nd from a raving fireplace, and buzzing with honey and taste. Dorrigo lamb celebrities in an considerable ragu holding on to bows of mafalde pasta, and you may anticipate a powerful selection of standard specials, generally headlined by rib-eye dry-aged in dwelling. Good meals to put you in a superb way of thinking.

7 Church Street, Bellingen, charliesbellingen.com.au