Ground Zero

Nice café in a quiet spot, with a nice courtyard & they serve nice food.
I was expecting a bit more though as a friend recommended me the place.
I’d say it’s good and I’d go back if I’m around. I find the large cappuccino overpriced though: $ 5.15 (there’s a 10% surcharge on Sundays and public holidays)

Stopped for a cookie after lunch. Nice weather sit out on plaza.

We’ve been to ground zero a couple of times now, usually for breakfast. The haloumi platter and Spanish frittata were both excellent. Definitely be going back in the future

When Pure Wholefoods is closed over Christmas, this is our next fave lunch spot in Manly.
There’s a limited vegan selection on the menu but the lentil and chickpea burger is the bomb! The juices and coffee are also rad to the max, as is the outdoor communal dining benches.
Probably the thing I love most about this place is its in the middle of the market stalls which provides endless hours of people watching and bargain shopping.

worst breakfast. the food tasted bland, there was nothing special about eating here. I almost felt like puking from eating the sausages. stay. service is also really bad.

This café is my pick for breakfast in Manly, and does a good lunch spread too. I don’t rate the cafes on the beachfront, they are highly overrated and snooty.
Ground Zero has a great breakfast menu, my favourite is the mushroom and avocado on toast. They also do good eggs, museli, baked beans, bacon etc etc
I recommend trying one of the Acai smoothies, my favourite is Energiser.
Tips:
1. A seat out the front on the street is best but if full try the back.
2. You need to go up to the counter to order
3. Ground Zero changes into a different venue at night and becomes a Mexican/​Tapas/​Tequila bar with a different name. I have yet to scope it out but I’m keen to.

They have such a splendid breakfast menu, that my heart actually broke a little when I realized I had just missed it. They closed the breakfast menu at 3pm, and I arrived at 3:10. The injustice of it all!
The staff aren’t particularly friendly, but they’re okay. This isn’t the kind of place you come to for the service, anyway, not like your local mom and pop store.
It’s quite a classy little café, with a gorgeous seating area out the back, with palm trees and other miscellaneous plant life forming a semi-​canopy overhead.
I decided to have a spinach and feta pie, which was phenomenal. No, seriously, I loved it, in a way that I don’t usually love vegetarian dishes.
The feta was amazingly crumbly and creamy, the spinach was seasoned beautifully, and it came with a salad, and a tomato coulis. The coulis wasn’t particularly good, kind of just tasted like watered down ketchup, but the salad was amazing. I don’t even know why, it was just leaves and sprouts, but they put *something*, some unidentifiable dressing in it, that changed everything. I ate with gusto, and I don’t normally touch salad. Carnivorous all the way! Except on that particular day, apparently.
All in all, I like it. Would go again.

Well, I get the connotation of ‘ground’ and coffee, but I really find it hard to enjoy a place with this name — just too many connections with that other Ground Zero, which has (for better or worse) become so firmly connected with the phrase.
Coffee’s pretty good, service is a bit mediocre, prices very reasonable and servings generous. Quaint little outdoor eating area out the back — perfect for the apartment block neighbours who can just pop in through the back gate. Who needs a coffee machine at home?
But still … that name … do I want to live next to Ground Zero???