A great place to sit and chill out with breakfast, and during the day you’ll often see people tucked in a corner with a laptop. Good food, good coffee.

http://www.lemondecafe.com.au/

I love Le Monde. The coffee is always fantastic, the service is fast and friendly and it’s perfect for a catchup, meeting or for some hacking. The food is consistently good too.

To be honest, I came here with high expectations, in 2009, I’d had about 3 quite nice coffees here in the space of about one week. However, this time round (~9/2/11), the coffees were less then grand.

I’d been talking with the guys at Single Origin (a few streets away), and they’d recommended Le Monde to me as they had a working clover drip. So, I ordered the clover drip, with what ever beans the barista thought best; considering I’d not had a clover drip coffee before. Well, the result was surprising, the pour time was about 45 seconds, it came out probably too quickly and too hot, after letting it cool for a few minutes, the flavours just weren’t there; The coffee was weak and had very little body to it (quite like the coffee you often get at conferences from places like Peats *shudder*).

Second up, I decided to try one of their espressos – with just what ever the house beans were – that is, after some water to have a clean palette before tasting a different coffee. Well, once again, the result was surprising, there was just no body to the coffee at all, and any body that was there was washed out by a rather sour-ish flavour in the coffee.

Great Coffee, Smooth service, nice seating arrangement (indoors and outdoors, indoors with lounges and tables, outdoors with just seats & tables). A neat assortment of coffee devices on the wall. Overall, I’d recommend this cafe to anyone looking for a decent coffee.

(this was reviewed based on a 2009 experience)

Max at Le Monde is a legend. A @dylanfm and I had the whole process of making a double ristretto explained to us. They know their shit and their coffee is phenomenal.