Where can you buy freshly roasted coffee in Ultimo, Sydney?

The Q Cafe & Roastery at 597 Harris Street is a café and roastery in one. Chambers Coffee at 646 Harris Street has been roasting in Sydney since 2014. Stitch Coffee's flagship at 80 Bay Street, opposite Broadway Shopping Centre, combines a retail shop with a brew bar where you can sample the range.

How did Ultimo in Sydney get its name?

Ultimo is named after a clerical error. John Harris's offense was recorded as "ultimo", meaning last month, when it should have read "instant", which spared him a court-martial. Harris Street, now home to the ABC and several coffee roasters, carries his name.

Which cafés in Pyrmont, Sydney, are on the waterfront?

Zebra Lounge at Jacksons Landing is a waterfront café and restaurant, open Tuesday to Sunday, serving breakfast until 11:30. Pirrama Park Kiosk opens daily 07:00 to 16:00 with outdoor tables. Jones Bay Wharf has Two Fratelli on the lower deck, and Wharf Cafe on weekdays.

Cafés in Pyrmont & Ultimo, Sydney: Hours and Map

Pyrmont, 2 km south-west of the CBD, is named after the mineral spring at Bad Pyrmont in Germany, for a similar spring on the peninsula, and its sandstone quarries, worked from 1853, were nicknamed Paradise, Purgatory and Hell Hole by their Scottish workers.¹ Ultimo owes its name to a clerical error: John Harris's offense was recorded as "ultimo" (last month) instead of "instant", which spared him a court-martial.²

Industry left after the Second World War, and by 1978 the two suburbs were down to 1,800 residents.² The ABC, the University of Technology Sydney and TAFE now fill much of Ultimo, while Pyrmont's cafés run from Union Street's stone terraces out to the waterfront.

Local tip: To try beans before you buy, go to Stitch Coffee on Bay Street, where the brew bar sits alongside the retail shelves.⁶

At a glance

92Cafés listed

16With opening hours

07:00Earliest opening

23:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: Jones St Cafe, from 07:00 (Mon–Fri 07:00–15:30 · Sat 07:30–13:00 · Sun Closed).

Closes latest: Flappy Bird, until 23:00 (Mon–Wed 08:00–21:00 · Thu–Fri 08:00–22:00 · Sat 09:00–23:00 · Sun 09:00–20:00).

Most listed streets: Harris Street (14), Harris St (11), Broadway (6).

Most common features: outdoor seating (23%), indoor seating (20%), smoke-free indoors (5%).

Harris Street, from the ABC to Broadway

The ABC's Sydney headquarters is on Harris Street, and two roasters trade near its southern end.² The Q Cafe & Roastery at number 597 is café and roastery in one and, unusually for the area, gives its closing time as 20:00 from Monday to Saturday.³

Chambers Coffee at number 646 has been roasting in Sydney since 2014 and sells its blends, single-origin decaf, chai and brew gear.⁴ The Poop Coffee, on the same stretch, deals in one thing: single-origin kopi luwak, the coffee passed through a civet, sourced from Java.⁵

Broadway and the UTS crowd

Stitch Coffee opened its roastery in Alexandria in 2015, under Nawar Adra, formerly of Circa Espresso and Brewtown Newtown.⁶ Its Ultimo flagship at 80 Bay Street, opposite Broadway Shopping Centre, is part retail shop and part brew bar, in a heritage building that keeps its hardwood floors and exposed beams, and it invites you to sample the range before taking a bag home.⁶

The shopping center stands on the site of Grace Bros' old flagship, and the Dairy Farmers' cooperative plant on Harris Street, closed in 2009, gave way to a Frank Gehry building for UTS.² For later hours, Flappy Bird on Broadway serves until 22:00 on Thursdays and Fridays and 23:00 on Saturdays.

Union Street and old Pyrmont

Quick Brown Fox Eatery occupies a historic sandstone building on Union Street, with a terrace outside and St Ali coffee on the menu, and it serves breakfast and lunch every day, 07:00–15:00.⁷ The drinks list also runs to cold-pressed juices, organic kombucha and alcohol.⁷ The stone suits the neighborhood: Pyrmont's quarries supplied many of Sydney's most significant buildings.¹

Social Brew Cafe, on Harris Street, has Wi-Fi and outdoor tables.

Jacksons Landing and the wharves

Zebra Lounge, a café and restaurant at Jacksons Landing with water and parkland views, is run by Craig Jarman, who has more than 30 years in hospitality; it serves breakfast until 11:30 and seafood at lunch, Tuesday to Sunday, and closes on Mondays.⁸

Pirrama Park Kiosk opens daily 07:00–16:00 with outdoor tables and vegan options. Jones Bay Wharf has its own small cluster, with Two Fratelli on the lower deck; Wharf Cafe there trades on weekdays only, 07:00–15:30.

Cafés in Pyrmont & Ultimo

At a glance

Buttercrumbs Croissant

Flappy Bird

harris.miller cafe

Jones St Cafe

Kozie Kup Cafe

One Shot

Pirrama Park Kiosk

Quick Brown Fox Eatery

The Black Groodle Cafe

The Q Cafe & Roastery

Wharf Cafe

Age.3

Cafe Crown

Calla

Eunoia

The Terrace

1877 Wine Bar & Espresso

3 Dots Cafe & Mini Mart

AnTiDoTe

Beans N Co

Biaggio Espresso

Bistro Clementine

Brew Express

Cafe Cre Asion

Cafe Morso

Cafe Queenz

Cafe XXII

Caffetini

Cambodge Cafe

Canvas Cafe

Central Brew

Chambers Coffee

Cornerstone Cafe

Dragon Well Chinese Teahouse

Eat Ozzo

Five Star Kitchen

Coffee chains in Pyrmont & Ultimo

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Three Beans

Harris Street, from the ABC to Broadway

Broadway and the UTS crowd

Union Street and old Pyrmont

Jacksons Landing and the wharves

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Pyrmont & Ultimo cafés: questions

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