Top 5 Gluten-Free Cafes to Delight in South Yarra

Rose Cruz

What a wonderful find with great food and super friendly staff. This cafe was 70m from our airbnb and open everyday of the Easter long weekend. Expecting it to be crowded we ordered takeaway easily over the phone. It was ready at the time they said and we thoroughly enjoyed the chicken hero sandwich with crispy chicken skin, pork and fennel sausage and crispy duck fat potatoes. The red velvet tea cakes with strawberries, cream and blueberry jam were beyond moist m, soft and delicious and happened to be gluten free. Both hubby’s cappuccino and my Soy Mocha were the epitome of perfect Melbourne coffees. We ordered by SMS 2 days later and Donovan the owner recognised my order and remembered my name though I hadn’t written it in the text. I wish I had a cafe this great in Brisbane or Sydney where I live. I will definitely return to this cafe when I stay in the area next. Highly recommended! Thanks to the crew! 😊🙏

Kara Scott

Such a beautiful go to cafe in South Yarra! So many delicious options and lots of gluten free options which is so great! This is my new favourite cafe near the city! Coffee is delicious!!

Alice MS

Had been here previously a year ago but has seriously gone down hill since then. Cramped and over crowded making it extremely hard to hear anyone talk. Did bottomless and only got one drink in the first hour, we then tried to order 2 each the second round but were told we could only order 12 drinks for a party of 8 despite a table behind us order 3 drinks at a time. Menu item reads that certain food options are already gluten free without alterations, but discovered once arriving to the table that that is incorrect and you must request it to be gluten free. Took over an hour wait for food, with it even getting to the point if someone came over and asked if we had ordered. Food eventually arrived with it being cold. The waitress did deduct some of the bill due to the issue with the gluten free option but it failed to make up for the overall poor experience. Pay the extra money for bottomless and go elsewhere or make sure you’re here on quiet day. If they planned ahead or had a manager who made sure they knew what was going on they might have a chance.

Poor Looch

The most delicious toasties. I drive from Altona North just to have one these amazing goodies. They have gluten free toasties which is such a plus.

EM Becker

Terrible place. Dirty first of all, and disinterested staff who weren’t friendly at all. Food was bland and overpriced. I ordered a “premium loose leaf tea” and was given a low rate supermarket tea bag in a pot. I didn’t drink it and asked for it to be taken off of the bill because it wasn’t what I ordered. No apology or acknowledgement. Worst of all I told the waitress I was a coeliac if she could pass it on to the chef, and ordered something quite safe (salmon salad bowl) and still got sick from gluten contamination. I have a feeling this was once a good place that is now being run into the ground by poor management.