This restaurant-turned-all-day eatery serves the best brunch in Bellingen

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Erina Starkey

Contemporary$$

If you get the sense that this Bellingen cafe used to be a restaurant, you’re not wrong. The dining room, all olive green and honey timbers, is warm and inviting, while the smart, produce-driven menu hints at its former life as a Good Food Guide-listed bistro. Owners Fiona Richardson and Megs Black have since shifted the venue to daytime trade, with the exception of one dinner service on Saturday night. You can now wake up to a blue swimmer crab omelette with chilli katta sambol or sardines with pickled beets on locally made Darkwood sourdough. The menu is just as suited to a single-origin coffee on Loma beans as it is to a natural wine from Tumbarumba.

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Erina Starkey – Erina is the Good Food App Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously, Erina held a number of editing roles at delicious.com.au and writing roles at Broadsheet and Concrete Playground.