Cafe Sweethearts

Ph: (03) 9690 6752; 263 Coventry St, SOUTH MELBOURNE 3205

cafe, $, ** for Ambience
Open mon-fri 1am-3pm sat-sun 8am-3pm, Closed Some public holidays; Licensed, BYO bottled wine only, Corkage $2.50; BC MC V, Seats inside 50, Outside seats 12

Mietta's Review
A real stayer, begun in 1987 and still going strong. Very popular for breakfast. The menu is long and comprehensive and the atmosphere is conducive to leisurely eating eggs or pancakes while conducting a business meeting or reading all the weekend papers. Also open for lunch.

Other published opinions

The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "After a hard morning browsing African art or Japanese furniture on posh Coventry Street settle into this corner cafe for what they do best - eggs"

Herald Sun Donna Coutts, 16-12-06 "Part of Sweethearts' mildly quaint appeal is its approach to service. Apart from one lessthan-perfect encounter on a Saturday a few years ago, the service is impeccable. Today, our whole bill comes to less than $17, yet anyone would think we were forking out a hundred gorillas for something truffle-infused and fiddled with by a Frenchman."

The Age Cheap Eats 2007 "The legendary Cafe Sweethearts is an institution built almost entirely upon eggs. For almost two decades, broadsheet-perusing locals have made it very hard to get a seat here in the morning."

The Age Cheap Eats 2006 Don't be fooled by the slightly twee name and the tawny-toned fitout this place is fabulous. ... Add on-the-ball service and pervasive professionalism and it's no wonder this old-timer has so many loyal fans

The Age Cheap Eats 2005 "This sunny corner cafe, near South Melbourne Market, just keeps humming. It does a brisk trade in weekday lunches but it's the leisurely weekend breakfasts that really shine."

The Foodies' Guide 2004,Allan Campion & Michele Curtis,'A perennial favourite of Melbourne breakfasters.Sit inside where it's warm and cosy in winter,or outside during the warmer months,soaking up the sunshine and the atmosphere of Coventry Street.The free-range egg dishes are the stars of the menu;they come every which way with your choice of accompaniments.'

The Age Cheap Eats 2004,Good vegetarian dishes,Somewhere really special,'In its light,streamlined interior,you'll find some of the best googs in town....Lunch means soups,pastas,burgers (with eggs,natch),and cake,and service is,um,eggcellent.'

Herald Sun, citystyle, 2/12/03, Michele Curtis,'Melbourne's top 10 brekkies.'

The Age, Epicure, The breakfast club, Michael Shmith, 7.3.00, 'Meanwhile a bone throw away from the South Melbourne market is one of the great stayers Cafe Sweethearts whose large menu contains the soft dishes designed to make expatriate Americans drool. And the pancakes, let me tell you! the lumberjack is ok-as something consiting of three pancakes, bacon, fried egg and tomato would be. It is enough to make one fell the nearest giant redwood. Coffee is excellent, too."