Mira Ve Cafe

Absolutely the best restaurant in Sydney! 🇨🇴✨ The Colombian food is authentic and full of flavor, and the coffee is simply unbelievable — easily the best I’ve had. This place has quickly become my favorite spot in the city. Highly recommended!

(3.5 stars) Living next door to the birthplace of cacao, Ecuador, Colombian people are serious about chocolate. Hot chocolate with cheese—chocolate santafereño ($6.50)—enhances the flavours of the chocolate by adding a bit of salt. We tried it at Mira Ve Cafe in Carlton, though the cheese they chose seemed curiously impervious to heat. The cafe’s mostly outdoor tables are widely spaced around a corner spot in a sleepy shopping strip in Carlton running alongside the railway. The strip caters to its multicultural locals with a European deli, a spice shop, and a barber shop filled with excited young men. At Mira Ve, the crowd includes numerous tables of South Americans locals, here to eat arepas and stock up on products that remind them of their birth countries. You’ll find a freezer full of arepas and shelves of dry goods inside. We try a corn meal arepa and a fried beef empanada in a dish called tiburona ($22). The two items are separated by a smear of oxidised smashed avocado, sliced tomato and a generous mound of too-sweet-for-me pulled pork. Montañero ($35) is the priciest item on the menu but with side plates it could easily be shared. It’s a huge earthenware dish of rice and beans, scrambled eggs, a white corn flour arepa draped in grilled cheese (proving that with sufficient heat, it does indeed become runny), Rodriguez Bros chorizo and morcilla, and fried sweet plantain fritters. The highlight of this dish was the charred strips of steak, generously coated in a coriander-based salsa.

It was my first time to go to a Latin cafe. This was a good introduction! My arepa was good, tres lechea cake was also good, not too sweet! The best part for me was the hot chocolate and cheese. I'd come back just for that! The empanadas were also decent. The staff were lovely. Note that it's outside seating, it gets quite chilly with the morning breeze.

Lovely experience trying Colombian traditional food. We had the arepas Ropa Vieja and Carnivora with cheese and they were yum and plenty. Service was friendly and coffee hits the spot with stronger beans than your usual cafe. A local gem!

Fantastic experience! This is my first time to eat Columbia food! The staff is handsome and friendly!!! I forgot the name of the dishes ~ try the rice with sausage and panada ! Soft beef bone with potatos! Hot chocolate with cheese! Really good. Don’t forget to put the cheese to hot chocolate, you will have a different taste of cheese!