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Meeting friends for a coffee or avo on toast is now the best definition of a morning meal in Australia. Jindabyne’s cafes are used to the morning rush of people fueling up for a day in the mountains. Here are the best cafes in Jindabyne that offer breakfast and coffee to start your day.
Birchwood
Unit 3/3 Gippsland Street, Jindabyne
Birchwood Cafe is one of the best places to get breakfast in Jindabyne. With their Insta-worthy dishes and cafe space, Birchwood serves up a range of delicious brekky options. If you’re after something easy and to take away, the bacon and egg roll is a great savory option. If you are after something sweet, the homemade banana bread with maple butter is the perfect treat to pair with a coffee. And if it’s just avo on toast you’re craving, you need to try Birchwoods Avo on Toast with the lot. They offer gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options.
Rokits Edibles
15 Crawford St, Jindabyne NSW 2627
Rokits is a must-visit if you’re in need of some serious breakfast fuel. Its located 5 minutes out of Jindabyne in Leesville down the Barry Way. You can sit in for a coffee and a toastie from their always-changing specials. If you’re not feeling too hot, order the famous Royale Burger to takeaway. Rokits bacon and egg roll is filled with cheese, onion, a hashbrown, and two different sauces and is known as a great hangover cure.
Mountain Munchies
Nuggets Crossing, 5B Snowy River Ave, Jindabyne NSW 2627
Mountain Munchies is a mom-and-pop style takeaway shop run by locals. Located inside Nuggets Crossing, Mountain Munchies opens from 7.30 to supply tradies and the early risers with bacon and egg rolls and coffee. During winter, Mountain Munchies is busy every morning feeding skiers and snowboarders needing energy for a big day on the hill.
CoffeeBeatsDrinks
31 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne NSW 2627


CoffeeBeatsDrinks might be known as one of the coffee shops in Jindy, but did you know they also sell toasties for breakfast? Think ham and cheese, cheese and tomato, and if you’re lucky their homemade Rueben sandwiches. Customers can sit in and enjoy the best view of the lake while drinking some of Jindabyne’s best coffee.
Dudley’s Cafe
6 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne NSW 2627
Dudleys Cafe is a rustic coffee shop hidden under the stairs at Nuggets Crossing. The cafe offers a range of breakfast meals including their popular salmon eggs benedict. Diners can also swap out the salmon for bacon or ham. From 7.30 am, you can enjoy a coffee and breakfast at Dudley’s.
Peak Performance
Shop 18B, Snowy Mountains Plaza, 33 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne NSW 2627

If you’re looking for a healthier option for breakfast in Jindabyne, pop into Peak Performance at Old Nuggets. The health food cafe offers calorie-controlled breakfast options and protein shakes. They also have an outdoor seating area out front so you can sit and enjoy the view of Lake Jindabyne.
Parc Cafe Jindabyne
49 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne NSW 2627
Located inside the National Parks building, Parc Cafe Jindabyne is one of the best family-friendly cafes in Jindy that serves breakfast. Check the blackboard inside for tasty specials like the Field Mushroom Bruschetta and the Hueros Rancheros. They offer gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options.
Red Door Cafe and Roastery
10/17/33 Kosciuszko Rd, Jindabyne NSW 2627


Red Door Cafe and Roastery has been serving up locally roasted coffee since 2013. The family-run coffee shop offers the classic Aussie cafe experience. They plate up wraps, toasties, and scrambled eggs from 7.30 am nearly every day. And offer the only coffee in town that is roasted on the premises.
Trader Joes Garage Cafe
Snowline service centre, 6532 Kosciuszko Road, Jindabyne
Situated opposite the turnoff for Thredbo, Trader Joes Garage Cafe is the last place to get brekky before getting on the Alpine Way. t The cafe gives a rustic Aussie garage vibe and is the perfect place to get a takeaway brekky on the go. Especially if you are heading up the mountain early. The signs say best burger in town and they are not wrong. Their famous bacon and egg baguette is the perfect grab-and-go brekky. They open from 6 am and customers can order online via Bopple.

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