RecommendedEating out Woollahra

Cafe Cressida

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

June 5, 2025

1 / 7Cafe Cressida in Woollahra.Nikki To

3 / 7Fillet steak with sauce vierge. Jennifer Soo

4 / 7Congee with shredded roast chicken, peanuts, chilli and fried bread.Jennifer Soo

5 / 7Prawn roll, iceberg, avocado and sauce ravigote.Jennifer Soo

6 / 7Orange cake with Chantilly cream.Jennifer Soo

7 / 7Roast sugar pudding, grapes and lemon curd.Jennifer Soo

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Chef Phil Wood and Lis Davies are the couple behind Cressida, which is fundamentally a nice place to sit on a coffee and read the paper. Cushioned seats are upholstered in marigold stripes, water is poured in Maison Balzac glasses, and Wood will send the best version of eggs any way you like them. There are also house-baked carrot cake muffins, dippy eggs and soldiers and a very popular chicken sandwich. Also open for dinner.

Must order: No one ever expected “Woollahra cafe” and “great breakfast congee” would be next to each other in a sentence, but here we are.