The crew at Barrel One Coffee Roasters have finally burst their Northern Beaches bubble and opened a café south of the bridge. It’s in good company on the corner of Roslyn Street in Potts Point, a stone’s throw from local favourites Piccolo Bar and Teta’s Deli, and here, you’ll find them brewing house blends and grilling New-York-inspired classics from 7am daily.
Barrel One rolled up the slider doors of its Potts Point café in February 2023. It’s the fourth venue for owners Daniel Agapiou and Samuel Graham, who founded the coffee roaster in 2012 and have since built quite the empire with cafés in Brookvale, Manly and Cromer (Lane Cove is set to join the party in August 2023).
Loyal fans will be pleased to know that Potts Point is following suit of its siblings with deli-style sandwiches and bagels that give the Big Apple a run for its money. The pastrami bagel (by Brooklyn Boy) still reigns supreme and is loaded with pastrami from LP’s Quality Meats, pickles, cheddar and breakfast sauce. The cheesy egg fold bagel is popular with the breakfast crowd, as is the PBJ and classic avocado.
Barrel One’s smoked trout and cream cheese bagel could be a good op for lunch, but it’s hard to resist their sangas with fillings like smoked chicken and mayo, Italian meatball and the almighty Cubano with porchetta, double smoked ham, pickles, cheddar and Cubano sauce.
Pair your midday sustenance with a house Solera Blend coffee, which they roast using beans from small fair trade farmers in Guatemala, Java and Colombia. Batch brew, long blacks and espressos are brewed using Barrel One’s single origin of the day, and if you can’t do caffeine past noon, there are also oat jaffa hot chocolates, naked paleo reishi chais, Bobby sodas and Almighty juices.
Potts Point is far from Barrel One’s usual barefoot beach crowd, but perhaps this is the start of their next chapter on the east.