Guidebook for Coburg

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Guidebook for Coburg

Food Scene

Definitely worth a visit for cheap, excellent Lebanese pizza and fast food. Has a sister bakery very close to us at 395 Sydney Rd.
81 locals recommend
A1 Bakery
643-645 Sydney Rd
81 locals recommend
Definitely worth a visit for cheap, excellent Lebanese pizza and fast food. Has a sister bakery very close to us at 395 Sydney Rd.
They do incredible pancakes here.
65 locals recommend
A Minor Place.
103 Albion St
65 locals recommend
They do incredible pancakes here.
Situated in the old grounds of Pentridge Prison, this is a lovely cafe in a once notorious gaol. Worth wandering around, and Coburg Lake is close.
12 locals recommend
The Boot Factory
19 Pentridge Blvd
12 locals recommend
Situated in the old grounds of Pentridge Prison, this is a lovely cafe in a once notorious gaol. Worth wandering around, and Coburg Lake is close.
A wide selection of coffee beans, and excellent coffee very close by.
Domenico Traditional Coffee
221 Moreland Rd
A wide selection of coffee beans, and excellent coffee very close by.
Great little cafe on the Upfield cycle path.
20 locals recommend
Steam Junkies
11 Florence St
20 locals recommend
Great little cafe on the Upfield cycle path.
Fantastic burgers 5 mins walk away!
Pentridge Burgers
41-43 Stockade Ave
Fantastic burgers 5 mins walk away!
Great cafe with a good selection of pattiserrie baked on site
The Elizabeth Cafe
130 Elizabeth St
Great cafe with a good selection of pattiserrie baked on site
Great Eastern European food and coffee. Right near Coburg Train station and Upfield Bike path
The Eastern Bloc
133 Bell St
Great Eastern European food and coffee. Right near Coburg Train station and Upfield Bike path
Excellent, unpretentious Indian takeaway and restaurant.
Royal E Punjab
873 Sydney Rd
Excellent, unpretentious Indian takeaway and restaurant.
A very wide array of Indian Sweets and Savouries.
Pista House
16 Sydney Rd
A very wide array of Indian Sweets and Savouries.
Fabulous pizzas a few minutes walk away. Can get very busy, so worth booking in advance.
10 locals recommend
Cornerstone Pizzeria
107 Harding St
10 locals recommend
Fabulous pizzas a few minutes walk away. Can get very busy, so worth booking in advance.
Decent Lebanese food, friendly and reasonably priced.
60 locals recommend
Tiba's Lebanese Restaurant
504 Sydney Road
60 locals recommend
Decent Lebanese food, friendly and reasonably priced.
Excellent food, friendly service and a decent courtyard out the back when the front is too crowded.
15 locals recommend
Kao Thai Restaurant
347 Sydney Rd
15 locals recommend
Excellent food, friendly service and a decent courtyard out the back when the front is too crowded.
Quirky 80's decor, friendly staff and excellent coffee.
16 locals recommend
True North
2A Munro St
16 locals recommend
Quirky 80's decor, friendly staff and excellent coffee.
Every Saturday until 1pm, this local school hosts a wonderful array array of local produce, beers, preserves and cheeses. There's a bike path all the way down O'Hea St. Check website for stallholder listings that week.
14 locals recommend
Coburg Farmers' Market
92 Bell St
14 locals recommend
Every Saturday until 1pm, this local school hosts a wonderful array array of local produce, beers, preserves and cheeses. There's a bike path all the way down O'Hea St. Check website for stallholder listings that week.
Check website for dates; often a weekly night market, usually Saturdays. Food, live music and shopping.
Batman Market
14-22 Gaffney St
Check website for dates; often a weekly night market, usually Saturdays. Food, live music and shopping.
Excellent food, a really great breakfast menu and a regularly rotated lunch menu; always worth checking out the specials.
13 locals recommend
Minimo
822 Sydney Rd
13 locals recommend
Excellent food, a really great breakfast menu and a regularly rotated lunch menu; always worth checking out the specials.
Excellent budget friendly middle-eastern food in a busy and popular venue.
17 locals recommend
Zaatar
365 Sydney Rd
17 locals recommend
Excellent budget friendly middle-eastern food in a busy and popular venue.
Fantastic little cafe, great for breakfast or lunch.
Hardings Corner Cafe Restaurant
5 Harding St
Fantastic little cafe, great for breakfast or lunch.
Budget friendly but decent dumplings situated in an unprepossessing parking lot.
8 locals recommend
Wang Wang Dumpling
51 Waterfield St
8 locals recommend
Budget friendly but decent dumplings situated in an unprepossessing parking lot.
An incredible selection of beautiful cakes, tarts, muffins and slices, as well as very reasonably priced and excellent food.
76 locals recommend
Green Refectory
115 Sydney Rd
76 locals recommend
An incredible selection of beautiful cakes, tarts, muffins and slices, as well as very reasonably priced and excellent food.
Very popular cafe and restaurant set in the original walls of Pentridge prison.
14 locals recommend
The Glass Den
15 Urquhart St
14 locals recommend
Very popular cafe and restaurant set in the original walls of Pentridge prison.
Decent middle-eastern cafe on the Merri Creek bike path
Islamic Museum of Australia
15A Anderson Rd
Decent middle-eastern cafe on the Merri Creek bike path
Great coffee, Mediterranean food and fantastic milkshakes.
8 locals recommend
Ruby's
138 Nicholson St
8 locals recommend
Great coffee, Mediterranean food and fantastic milkshakes.
A huge selection of Italian cakes, desserts and pastries.
Trivelli Cake Shop
369 Sydney Rd
A huge selection of Italian cakes, desserts and pastries.
Lovely deli and cafe.
The Deli Coburg
401 Sydney Rd
Lovely deli and cafe.
Friendly deli, bakery and cafe, on the O'Hea bike highway.
15 locals recommend
O'Heas Bakery & Deli
203-205 O'Hea St
15 locals recommend
Friendly deli, bakery and cafe, on the O'Hea bike highway.
Excellent fish and chips.
Fish On Sydney
373 Sydney Road
Excellent fish and chips.
Hidden away in a mall that has seen better days, this place will sort out your pie needs.
The Pie Place
471 Sydney Rd
Hidden away in a mall that has seen better days, this place will sort out your pie needs.
Decent Thai food
6 locals recommend
Taste of Thai
434 Sydney Road
6 locals recommend
Decent Thai food

Drinks & Nightlife

Nice rundown bar with live music.
64 locals recommend
Edinburgh Castle Hotel
681 Sydney Rd
64 locals recommend
Nice rundown bar with live music.
Pub with a good selection of vegetarian food. Live music most nights.
64 locals recommend
The Cornish Arms Hotel
163A Sydney Rd
64 locals recommend
Pub with a good selection of vegetarian food. Live music most nights.
Excellent bar and restaurant with live music most nights.
48 locals recommend
The Post Office Hotel Dining Hall
229-231 Sydney Rd
48 locals recommend
Excellent bar and restaurant with live music most nights.
Quirky decor, excellent selection of craft beers, good food.
21 locals recommend
The Woodlands Hotel
84-88 Sydney Rd
21 locals recommend
Quirky decor, excellent selection of craft beers, good food.
Good bar and live music venue.
73 locals recommend
The Brunswick Green
315 Sydney Rd
73 locals recommend
Good bar and live music venue.
Local live music venue and bar; nice courtyard.
139 locals recommend
Howler
7-11 Dawson St
139 locals recommend
Local live music venue and bar; nice courtyard.
Local live music venue; excellent beer garden.
100 locals recommend
The Retreat Hotel
280 Sydney Rd
100 locals recommend
Local live music venue; excellent beer garden.
Excellent bar in a huge and beautiful old building with a rambling and spacious beer garden.
13 locals recommend
Railway Hotel Brunswick
291 Albert St
13 locals recommend
Excellent bar in a huge and beautiful old building with a rambling and spacious beer garden.
Local bar
Browns Corner Hotel
502 Sydney Rd
Local bar

Shopping

Excellent locally made jeans,$50 a pair, and altered and fitted to your measurements in an hour. Looks like a hole in the wall from the outside, but you'll find the inside is crowded with hipsters.
42 locals recommend
Dejour Jeans
542 Sydney Rd
42 locals recommend
Excellent locally made jeans,$50 a pair, and altered and fitted to your measurements in an hour. Looks like a hole in the wall from the outside, but you'll find the inside is crowded with hipsters.
Open every Sunday and situated on the grounds of one of Australia's last surviving drive-in cinemas, this market has a truly startling array of genuine trash and occasionally treasures.
Coburg Trash & Treasure Market
155 Newlands Rd
Open every Sunday and situated on the grounds of one of Australia's last surviving drive-in cinemas, this market has a truly startling array of genuine trash and occasionally treasures.
An amazing selection of nuts, spices, oils, sweets, seeds and condiments.
Royal Nut Company
60 Fallon Street
An amazing selection of nuts, spices, oils, sweets, seeds and condiments.
Friendly local vape shop.
Leaf House Vape Shop Coburg - Vape Store Melbourne - E Cigarette Supplies
136 Nicholson St
Friendly local vape shop.

Entertainment & Activities

A 25 minute cycle down the Upfield Bike path, or ten minute train trip...
139 locals recommend
Melbourne Zoo/Poplar Rd station
139 locals recommend
A 25 minute cycle down the Upfield Bike path, or ten minute train trip...
One of the last drive-in cinemas in Australia.
39 locals recommend
Village Cinemas Coburg Drive-In
155 Newlands Rd
39 locals recommend
One of the last drive-in cinemas in Australia.
Outdoor swimming pool on the Merri Creek bike path
10 locals recommend
Coburg Olympic Swimming Pool
50 Murray Rd
10 locals recommend
Outdoor swimming pool on the Merri Creek bike path
Cycling velodrome on the Merri Creek trail
Brunswick Velodrome
Cycling velodrome on the Merri Creek trail
Cinema and shopping centre; buses from McDonald Reserve depart every 10 min (30 min journey)
73 locals recommend
Northland Shopping Centre
2-50 Murray Rd
73 locals recommend
Cinema and shopping centre; buses from McDonald Reserve depart every 10 min (30 min journey)

Parks & Nature

The walking trail and cycle path connects to many other cycle paths and is a picturesque way to cycle all the way into town. Access to the path is directly behind our house.
60 locals recommend
Merri Creek
60 locals recommend
The walking trail and cycle path connects to many other cycle paths and is a picturesque way to cycle all the way into town. Access to the path is directly behind our house.
Once the site of the quarry where the stones that built Pentridge were dug, now a lake and park in sight of Pentridge's bluestone walls.
13 locals recommend
Doug Hull Adventure Park
Carr Street
13 locals recommend
Once the site of the quarry where the stones that built Pentridge were dug, now a lake and park in sight of Pentridge's bluestone walls.

Sightseeing

Pleasant cycle along the Merri Creek path to CERES; you can wander the grounds; stop by the nursery, market, and cafe; take a guided tour; attend a workshop, and more....
236 locals recommend
CERES Community Environment Park
Roberts Street
236 locals recommend
Pleasant cycle along the Merri Creek path to CERES; you can wander the grounds; stop by the nursery, market, and cafe; take a guided tour; attend a workshop, and more....
Wander the grounds of one of Australia's most notorious prisons, now in the process of being converted to homes and shops.
7 locals recommend
Pentridge Prison Events
15 Urquhart Street
7 locals recommend
Wander the grounds of one of Australia's most notorious prisons, now in the process of being converted to homes and shops.

Essentials

Friendly bottle shop with a wide selection of local and international craft beers and ciders.
Coburg Wine & Spirits
472 Sydney Rd
Friendly bottle shop with a wide selection of local and international craft beers and ciders.
Liquor superstore
11 locals recommend
Dan Murphy's Coburg
1 Louisa St
11 locals recommend
Liquor superstore
Local supermarket. Next door is the NQR (the "Not Quite Right") where some splendid bargains can be had.
12 locals recommend
Woolworths Coburg Station
3 Louisa St
12 locals recommend
Local supermarket. Next door is the NQR (the "Not Quite Right") where some splendid bargains can be had.
Local supermarket
130 locals recommend
Coles
Separation Street
130 locals recommend
Local supermarket
Large Asian supermarket
KFL Supermarket
376 Sydney Rd
Large Asian supermarket
Open 24 hours
7-11 Elizabeth St
7-11 Elizabeth Street
Open 24 hours