Best brunch cafes in Botany

Best brunch cafes in Botany, ranked

1. #1Benzie's Cafe for a long weekend brunch

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Booralee Park, 4 min walk

   Benzie's Cafe is a relaxed cafe four minutes' walk from Booralee Park, and it opens at 6am on weekends. Brunch at Benzie's means tomato-sauce eggs with watercress, or the Clifo's Big Plate: sausage, bacon, beans, hash browns and toast. The in-house baking leans towards sweets, and most dishes can be made vegan, vegetarian or gluten-free. Dogs can sit outside, so the outdoor tables suit a slow morning with a pet. Diners who come for a long breakfast tend to stay at the outdoor seats.

   Best for: Weekend breakfasts and long brunches

2. #2ME Coffee Merchants for a quick coffee before brunch

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Booralee Park, 7 min walk

   ME Coffee Merchants is an artisan coffee cafe on Botany Road, and customers praise the coffee as outstanding. The pastry case holds croissants, bagels and sweet treats, and the sandwiches suit a takeaway lunch. Order the banana bread, which one customer names as the best item in the case. The house blend is sold in bags to take home. It opens before 6am every day, and it has outside tables for a short stop, with Booralee Park a seven-minute walk away.

   Best for: Quick coffee and a grab-and-go bite

3. #3Botannix Studio Cafe for a slow breakfast in the garden

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Garnet Jackson Reserve, 2 min walk

   Botannix Studio Cafe on Swinbourne Street serves breakfast and lunch in a garden courtyard, two minutes from Garnet Jackson Reserve. Order the ricotta pancakes or the avocado on toast with a poached egg, then try the burrito bowl at lunch. Vegans can order the acai and the green bowls, and a vegetarian frittata joins the granola and porridge. Dogs can sit outside with their owners, which makes the courtyard a good place to linger over a long catch-up.

   Best for: Slow breakfasts in a garden courtyard

4. #4Botany Espressoria for an easy family lunch

   $🌳 Booralee Park, 7 min walk

   Botany Espressoria is a casual cafe on Botany Road with a board of pizzas, pastas, salads and a separate kids section. Order the schnitzel and chips, or a toastie filled with schnitzel, bacon and egg. Diners say the food arrives hot and cooked as ordered. The vanilla slice is a homemade sweet to finish with, and visitors describe the staff as patient. Booralee Park is a seven-minute walk away, which makes it an easy stop before or after a family lunch.

   Best for: Families and easy group lunches

5. #5Cafe Cosi Nero for a burger lunch with the kids

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Booralee Park, 7 min walk

   On Botany Road, Cafe Cosi Nero keeps a courtyard out the back and a kids' menu for families. Order the cheeseburger with its thick patty, which a recent visitor calls the best burger in the area. The morning menu runs to a chorizo skillet and French toast topped with fairy floss. Takeaway coffee comes in green cups, and one customer names Campos as the roaster. Booralee Park is about a seven-minute walk away, so the kids can burn off lunch afterwards.

   Best for: Burgers and family lunches

6. #6Croquembouche Patisserie for a pastry with a coffee

   Outdoor seating🌳 Nancy Hillier Park, 6 min walk

   Croquembouche Patisserie is a French patisserie on Botany Road with streetside tables and a cabinet of eclairs, tarts and macarons. Order the beef bourguignon pie or the tarte tatin, which visitors single out, or a bacon and egg croissant. Cakes can be made to order for birthdays and weddings, and gluten-free products are sold. It is open Tuesday to Saturday from 6am, so it fits a weekday stop better than a Sunday brunch.

   Best for: Pastries, cakes and a sit-down treat

7. #7Balmain Coffee Company for a quick takeaway coffee and pastry

   $$🌳 Sir Joseph Banks Park, 5 min walk

   Balmain Coffee Company is a cafe inside a BP service station on Botany Road, open from 6am until 10pm every day. Order the Portuguese egg tart with a takeaway coffee, or a bacon and egg roll for an early start. Visitors also name the doughnuts. Customers praise the friendly, helpful staff and the clean toilets, and step-free access makes it easy to stop in. On foot, Sir Joseph Banks Park is five minutes from the door.

   Best for: Drivers, takeaway coffee and early starts

8. #8Bik's Cafe for a long family breakfast among plants

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Wall Reserve, 7 min walk

   Bik's Cafe on Botany Road has plants throughout its bright dining room and tables outside. Order the avocado on toast topped with pomegranate and feta, or a smoothie such as the strawberry matcha that customers name. Fresh baked muffins are on the counter, and the menu includes tacos, toasties and vegetarian choices. Staff bring meals to the table, and a kids' menu covers the little ones. Wall Reserve lies roughly seven minutes on foot from the door.

   Best for: Breakfast and brunch with children

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How we picked best brunch cafes in Botany

Cafes are ordered by a score that counts how many customers have left feedback, so a cafe with a long record sits above one with only a few. Brunch on the menu, weekend hours, dog rules and outdoor tables decided which cafes made the cut. Each write-up leans on the cafe's own menu notes and what its customers say about the food.