Java Lifestyle Coffee & Tea

My favourite coffee shop, the best coffee and the range of food is great, hard to make a choice, gluten free cakes, staff are friendly and helpful, plus you are surrounded by coffee bean selection, tea, assessories to buy and take home, great ambience.

Good tea and coffee. Pleasant service. Breakfast until 11am. Typical shopping centre café food after that. A lot of interesting coffee and tea implements for sale

Good coffee in the Suburbs, a great find. My daughter found that the hot chocolate was too chocolaty but even she admits that she is fussy about hot chocolate.

Parking is a breeze as its part of the Target Newton car park and only a hop skip and jump. The entrance is on the Foodland side, just on the left.
I’ve had coffee here numerous times and it has always been a good cup. The daily newspaper is a complimentary read and great while waiting for friends.
There’s even filtered water on tap to help yourself with the glasses on the bench.

La dolce vita!
I love the absolute sense of time and place Java Lifestyle Coffee & Tea has — so self assured and professional — «we do coffee and we do it damn well»!
I don’t know why but Java reminds me of another Adelaide gem — Lucia’s in the Central Market. Java has the same retro (unintentional) 70’s style. This local well kept secret has to be «the business» by the number of local Italian identities frequenting on a daily basis. Java makes me feel like I’ve stepped into a café on the back streets of Naples or Rome — it’s not flash, hipster or trendy but it provides an absolutely essential service to the community — consistently exceptional coffee.
Well worth making the trip to Newton on the weekend if you’re not a local as they now have a breakfast menu 7.30−11.00 am (get there early — this place is buzzing from mid morning on). They also sell a delectable range of Italian dolci plus freshly baked enormous muffins. Although I haven’t tried the teas they have an excellent range of blends and I am assured that Mario has taken the same care in selection as he does roasting his coffee beans.

I get all my coffee beans from this place now. The beans are roasted right in front of you in the shop, and Mario guarantees none of their beans are older than 2 weeks since roasting. They have a wall of beans from all around the world to choose from. Tea drinkers have a heap of leaves to choose from too.
My wife and I ate breakfast here last Saturday before doing the weekly grocery shopping. The freshly squeezed orange juice was obviously made from real oranges! The poached eggs were perfect, and the bacon was a better quality cut than most places sell. The toast came with a (soft) butter packet so I could choose how much to put on. The danish was good.
This place is a winner! Always busy, but the service is excellent.

I came here as part of Unilocal’s Campbelltown Food Trail — it is definitely not in my neck of the woods at all!
From the outside, you would not think this was a 5-​star-​worthy café — it looks like a pretty ordinary café in an ordinary shopping centre. But when the owner Mario was talking about coffee roasting, and you could see that all the coffee is roasted in-​house with their gorgeous large roaster, then you knew this wasn’t just an ordinary coffee shop!
I had a long black — now, I judge coffee shops on their long blacks, and this one was AMAZING! Seriously. I also saw one of those Italian Doughnuts making their way to a nearby table, and if I had more time, I would have snaffled one of those for sure! (they get an extra star for stocking those, haa!).
Even though it’s out of my way, I would definitely like to make my way back here to have lunch very soon. Not just good coffee and food, but a lot of equipment, coffee beans and tea — fantastic!

If you are looking for this place, look hard-​they don’t have a sign that sits along with the other elevated signs at Newton Plaza. But there they are, just to the right of the sliding door entrance to Newton Plaza.
From the looks of things, they are worth finding too, as they had a nice crowd at 1:30 on a Thursday afternoon. But with plenty of seating, it was no problem to get a quiet little table in the corner.
Inside its pretty amazing. On centre stage is a large, very fancy coffee roaster. That’s a good sign that the coffee will be good and freshly roasted, but more on that later.
Looking around, you’ll see a variety of old grinders, percolators and other coffee paraphernalia on display, along with a great selection of cups and stove-​top espresso makers. A big surprise is a huge selection of leaf teas! Not so big a surprise is a huge selection of freshly roasted coffee beans with choices from all over the world.
On display at the ordering counter are lots of panini and focaccia style light bites and sweet cakes and muffins. A large coffee beverage menu shares equal space with a tea menu and ordering proved to be a pleasant experience with the cheerful staff on board.
I had a latte and a cheese danish. I am, how do I say it… picky about my coffee. So, looking for a word that sums up what they brought to me, I come up with AWESOME! Smooth and flavourful, it was coffee made as the gods above meant it to be. The danish was very good too, but oh man, the coffee was wowsers.
Will I be back? The short answer is yes. In fact I am due back here Saturday morning as this is the start point for a Unilocal-​led safari of the Campbelltown environs. But I’ll be back after that for sure too.
Eat, drink and be merry, but not too much! JD

Great cappuccino. Not too strong, not too weak, not too bitter, not too sweet. Justtt right.