Cafe La Mer

Directly overlooking East Coast Marina at Manly Harbour, Cafe La Mer's alfresco deck offers a true waterfront dining experience for breakfast and lunch.

Here, diners can sit beneath a shady, sprawling fig tree, providing the ideal vantage point to watch the activity of the marina.

Fresh, seasonal, local ingredients are the main focus at this seaside cafe, with breakfast dishes such as the famous sand crab omelette, salmon cakes, fluffy pancakes, corn fritters, and the Aussie big brekky.

Cafe La Mer's lunch menu features seafood fresh off the boats (crumbed bay-caught whiting) as well as salads (prawn & avocado, grilled octopus, Moroccan lamb), souvlaki, frittatas, burgers, pastas and risottos (seafood, chicken or roast pumpkin). And for drinks, there's Belaroma coffee, organic loose-leaf teas, juices, smoothies and shakes, as well as a tempting range of homemade cakes, slices and biscuits.

In a nutshell - This is a delightful harbour-side cafe serving breakfast, morning tea and lunch which offers the ideal vantage point to watch all the activity at the marina.

Need to know - Carpark is onsite at East Coast Marina.

By Lucy Hordern

The menu may have changed since our visit.

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