Exchange Coffee
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Wednesday February 19, 2025: A new international guide, The World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops, has crowned Adelaide’s Exchange Coffee as the 37th best globally in its inaugural ranking. According to the guide’s website, the selection process involves both public voting and evaluations by a panel of specialty coffee experts and industry professionals. Three more Aussie cafes made the list: Two more Aussie cafes cracked the top 10: Melbourne’s Proud Mary and Brisbane’s Coffee Anthology ranked 4th and 8th, respectively. while Sydney’s Toby Estate cafe in Chippendale was named the best in the world.
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Occupying an iconic corner in Adelaide’s East End, Exchange Coffee has long been at the front of the pack in the city’s specialty coffee scene.
Since 2013, Melbourne’s Market Lane Coffee has supplied Exchange with its seasonal house blends and single origins. Long, clean espressos and bright, fruity batch brewed coffee are the venue’s defining offerings. But it’s also where you can also try coffee made using a Tricolate – a filter device which is said to achieve a higher extraction and results in a greater balance, sweetness and clarity.
Exchange’s menu skirts around brunch classics in favour of produce-driven dishes. Think chive waffles with beetroot-cured salmon, poached eggs and whipped ricotta; and baked eggs with red lentil dal, tomato salsa, mint yoghurt and pappadums. Then there’s the signature Wallace sandwich with avocado, Barossa pancetta, chipotle mayo, roasted peppers and mojo verde – and its vego and vegan cousins, the Walloumi and the Wegan.
The site was once part of the Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange – a sprawling four-acre market that traded from 1904 until 1988. Now repurposed and redeveloped, the area boasts a handful of cafes and niche retailers, with Exchange among the best of them.
Contact Details
Phone: 0415 966 225
Website: exchangecoffee.com.au
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