Best brunch cafes in Brookvale

Best brunch cafes in Brookvale, ranked

1. #1Fuel Espresso Bar for a long Saturday brunch

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Brookvale Park, 5 min walk

   Fuel Espresso Bar keeps Saturday hours from 5am to 2pm, and its listed hours stop there, so Sunday is not an option. The Jerusalem bagel and the labneh starter are the brunch dishes to try. For a lighter plate, the beetroot salad or the sashimi fits well, and a cheesecake with red fruit compote finishes the meal. Many of the dishes are gluten-free. A walk to Brookvale Park takes 5 minutes after the meal.

   Best for: A slow Saturday brunch with shared plates

2. #2Custom cafe for a Saturday breakfast with a kids' menu

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Brookvale Park, 6 min walk

   Custom cafe opens at 7am on Saturdays and closes at noon, which makes it an early choice for a family brunch. A mixed group can eat well here, with vegetarian dishes and a kids' menu on offer. The burger and cheese steak wrap and the poke bowls are the filling choices. One customer describes the steak sandwich as beautifully tender. Coffee earns praise from several customers, and the cafe has outdoor seating out the front.

   Best for: Early family breakfast on a Saturday

3. #3Barrel One Brookvale for a bagel brunch on Sundays

   Outdoor seating🌳 Quarry Reserve, 7 min walk

   Barrel One Brookvale is one of three picks open on Sundays, from 7am to 1pm, and it trades the same hours on Saturdays. The egg and cheese bagel with pastrami is the brunch order, served large with fluffy eggs. The reuben sandwich suits a second person at the table. Quarry Reserve is a 7-minute walk, and the room has space for a laptop.

   Best for: Sunday brunch with a big bagel

4. #4Nine Yards Coffee for an early Saturday brunch

   $🌳 Ankali Place Reserve, 9 min walk

   Nine Yards Coffee opens at 7am on Saturdays and closes at 1pm, and no Sunday trade is listed. The brunch plates include the Dukkah eggs and a chicken souvlaki flatbread. The rosti eggs benedict, topped with salmon, bacon or mushrooms, earned a 2019 visitor's recommendation. A 2023 visit praised a bacon breakfast burger for its generous portions. The nearest park, Ankali Place Reserve, is nine minutes on foot.

   Best for: Early Saturday eggs and flatbread

5. #5Beans And Baggers for a Saturday morning start

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Quarry Reserve, 4 min walk

   On Saturdays, Beans And Baggers starts at 7:30am and finishes at 1pm. The BBQ pork and salad roll is the brunch item one customer singled out, and vegetarian dishes are listed. Sweet treats such as cookies and marshmallows suit children, one customer says. Outdoor tables and Quarry Reserve, four minutes on foot, make it an easy stop.

   Best for: Saturday morning rolls and sweet treats

6. #6cactus cafe for a weekday brunch, not the weekend

   $🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Gumbooyah Reserve, 10 min walk

   cactus cafe has no weekend hours listed, and it runs weekdays from 7am to 3pm. Dogs sit outside on the deck, and the weekday menu is the only one to plan around. The breakfast burrito with haloumi and the granola bowl are the brunch choices. The listing says families with children are welcome. Dogs sit outside on the deck. Gumbooyah Reserve is a 10-minute walk.

   Best for: Weekday brunch with a dog on the deck

7. #7Leaf Cafe and Co Brookvale for a Sunday brunch with a kids' menu

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Ankali Place Reserve, 7 min walk

   Leaf Cafe & Co Brookvale runs its Sunday brunch from 9am until 3:30pm, with weekday mornings from 8:30am. Poached eggs with smashed avocado and avocado on toast are the brunch staples. All Things Green is the dish one customer orders on every visit. The kids' burger has a place on the menu too. Expect a busy room, with the staff working quickly.

   Best for: Sunday brunch for a family

8. #8Cafe LeLunar for gluten-free eggs on a weekend morning

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Ankali Place Reserve, 7 min walk

   Cafe LeLunar keeps the longest weekend hours on this list, from 8:30am to 4pm on Sundays and from 8am to 5pm on Saturdays. The poached eggs on toast can be ordered gluten-free, topped with smashed avocado, quinoa, radish and smoked salmon. Eggs Benedict is also on the menu, and a smoothie rounds out the drinks. Ankali Place Reserve lies seven minutes away on foot.

   Best for: Gluten-free eggs and a long weekend trade

Compare best brunch cafes in Brookvale

The table below shows which cafes trade on weekends, which serve brunch, and where each one sits in relation to a park.

How we picked best brunch cafes in Brookvale

Cafes are ordered by their overall score, weighted by how many customers have weighed in, then checked against this topic: brunch on the menu, weekend opening hours, and what each cafe's own page says about its food. The hours are the times listed for each cafe. Complaints appear only when a shared theme runs through the feedback.