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Box Diner, a Canberra café on Tennant Street in Fyshwick, believes that low miles from ‘farm to plate’ attract many café customers who want tasty food made onsite daily.
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Simple cafe food. Fresh produce. Quality regional ingredients. It can’t get much better than that when grabbing breakfast or lunch. Box Diner, a Canberra café on Tennant Street in Fyshwick, believes that low miles from ‘farm to plate’ attract many café customers who want tasty food made onsite daily. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Box Diner uses fresh herbs, local eggs from happy, free-range chooks, beef from Hereford cattle who thrive on tasty grass, and artisan breads from a nearby bakery made with little or no preservatives. The Canberra café’s jams, marmalades and relishes come from Boorowa’s Walsh Country Kitchen and are made with love from regional fruits and vegetables. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
This Fyshwick cafe is open crack of dawn with Canberra business people, tradespeople and staff from local businesses arriving for a barista-quality coffee, or a cup of Adora tea (don’t forget to grab a loyalty card). Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
To kick-start your day, Box Diner’s menu offers small options, such as spiced Turkish raisin toast with espresso creamed butter, up to the Big Box Breakfast, sure to satisfy the hungriest of workers. All dishes are made in-house. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Those who prefer savoury options can’t go wrong with a toasted croissant, with tomato and cheese or ham and cheese, or the bacon and egg roll with tangy BBQ sauce. Those with a sweet tooth adore the crepes - a traditional lemon and sugar, as well as apple and cinnamon or hazelnut and chocolate. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Vegetarians regularly opt for the Herbivore - open range eggs, avocado, fried haloumi, roast tomato, mushrooms and spinach. Meat lovers dive into the Carnivore with Smokey bacon and spicy chorizo. And the café’s Big Box Breakfast, as its name implies, promises ‘the lot’. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
While some daytime Canberra cafes stop serving food mid-morning to prep for lunch or mid-afternoon to close down, Box Diner has delicious ‘all day’ options. Try the rice paper rolls (Thai omelette or chicken) - an instant success when the diner first opened - or the Moorish pot pies. Paninis, house-baked focaccia and toasted baguettes (3” and 9”) can be ordered all day at the cafe and Box Diner’s home-baked sweets are fabulous. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
As the clock ticks towards noon, this Fyshwick cafe rolls out its lunch menu, with rotating blackboard weekly and daily specials adding interest for customers who return often. On the regular menu is salt and pepper squid with light chilli citrus salad, garlic prawns with jasmine rice and good old tempura fish and chips. The salad range features the champagne poached pear with blue cheese and walnuts, a honey mustard chicken, and a roast vegetable. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Feeling like a bit of pasta? Box Diner has five styles, including the sensational fettucinigambrei. Eleven types of burgers are on the menu, including the tangy peri peri, a flame grill lamb with blue cheese and the hearty Portobello mushroom. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Located in Fyshwick, an industrial, retail and office area, this Canberra cafe has a perfect location, only minutes away from the Parliamentary Triangle, trendy Kingston and Manuka, and other parts of the city. Box Diner is a peaceful place to dine, overlooking hectares of farm land. There’s plenty of free on-street parking and easy access for people with disability. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
The atmosphere at the Fyshwick cafe is relaxed and non-pretentious. Dine indoors in stylish surrounds with warm timber accents and in comfy booth or table seating, or alfresco under weatherproof awnings with gas heaters to keep you warm in Canberra’s cooler months. The café also offers corporate catering and party catering. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra
Box Diner is open Monday to Friday, 7am to 3pm. 65 Tennant Street, Fyshwick, ACT. (02) 6202 5555. Dine in or take-away. Take-home dishes available. BYO. Box Diner Cafe Restaurant in Fyshwick Canberra