Cafes with outdoor seating in Bondi

Cafes with outdoor seating in Bondi, ranked

1. #1Bean Tree Cafe for outdoor tables close to Dickson Park

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Dickson Park, 4 min walk

   Bean Tree Cafe seats both inside and out, and its outdoor tables are a short walk from Dickson Park. The cafe opens at 7:30am and works for a coffee or a light lunch. Customers describe the coffee as good and smooth, and say the place has a neighbourhood feel that brings locals back.

2. #23 Steps Cafe for outside coffee before the day starts

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Dickson Park, 5 min walk

   3 Steps Cafe has outdoor seating and opens at 5am, so the tables fill with early coffee drinkers. Dickson Park is five minutes on foot from the door, which makes a walk after breakfast easy. The cafe has parking and toilets, and the breakfast plate with a hash brown is the food to pick. Weekday and weekend opening are the same, so the tables are open every morning.

3. #3Up South for corner tables and matcha

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Boondi Reserve, 6 min walk

   Up South's outdoor tables sit on the corner, outside a small indoor room. Up South's corner tables are about six minutes' walk from Boondi Reserve. Coffee here leans on matcha, and breakfast plates with toast and fried eggs are the main order. Outdoor tables fill by late morning on busy days, so arrive early.

4. #4Bennett St Dairy for a table with the dog

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

   Bennett St Dairy is the only cafe on this list that welcomes dogs outside, so a dog can stay at your feet. Waverley Park is four minutes away on foot, in Bondi Junction, so the walk can start at the table. The cafe has parking and toilets for visitors who drive.

5. #5M Deli Cafe for outside tables with table service

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Boondi Reserve, 3 min walk

   M Deli Cafe is a corner cafe and deli on Dudley Street in Tamarama. Plates come out from the kitchen to the tables, so the outside seats need no trip inside. Boondi Reserve is a short stroll away. The toasted sandwich case and quiches also make it a takeaway stop, and it opens at 6am each morning.

6. #6Meidy's Cafe for breakfast outdoors with friends

   Outdoor seating🌳 Dickson Park, 4 min walk

   Meidy's Cafe has outdoor tables on Bondi Road, and the morning crowd mixes sit-down breakfasts with takeaway coffee. A walk after breakfast can head to Dickson Park, four minutes off. Vegetarian choices sit beside a bacon roll on the board. The day starts at 6:30am, and the cafe is shut by 2pm. Visitors find the team welcoming and the mood easy-going, which suits catching up.

Compare cafes with outdoor seating in Bondi

Each cafe below has outside seating, with the nearest park and the street it sits on.

How we picked cafes with outdoor seating in Bondi

Cafes are ranked by score. Only cafes with confirmed outside tables make the list. Among those, a weighted score sorts them, and each entry notes the park or street nearby, with food and coffee drawn from each cafe's own menu notes.