Australian restaurants, cafés and bars in New York

New York is the best city in America for Aussie cafés. It's thinner on Aussie pubs and pies, so lower your expectations for a Friday-night schooner.

The short version

For a Melbourne-style café, Little Collins in Midtown has a flat white, a piccolo, The Smash and Australian wine on the menu [9][10].
For brunch with an Aussie accent, try Two Hands in Tribeca, Banter (three Manhattan cafés), Little Ruby's or Hole in the Wall [1][2][4][7].
Dudleys on the Lower East Side is built to feel like an Australian corner pub and bistro, with a Bronte Burger and a flat white [5][6].
Bluestone Lane is the big Australian-inspired chain, with cafés across Manhattan [8].
We couldn't confirm a dedicated Aussie footy bar still trading in 2026. Several old favourites have closed.

How we built this list

Plenty of "Australian restaurants in NYC" lists online are years old. We started with the Aussie names that come up again and again, then checked each venue's own website in November 2026. We only kept places whose site was live and still described an Australian connection.

What didn't make the cut:

DUB Pies, the pie bakery that brought Australian and New Zealand-style meat pies to New York in 2003, has stopped trading. The owners say the pandemic ended it after almost 20 years [3].
Bondi Road and Tuck Shop no longer have working websites of their own, so we left them out.
A handful of other Aussie-linked cafés we couldn't confirm either way. If one of them is your local and it's still pouring, tell us in the group and we'll take another look.

Coffee and brunch

This is where New York shines. Australians helped teach Manhattan what a flat white is, and the brunch scene took the lesson to heart. Go on a weekday if you can. Weekend queues at the popular spots are long.

Little Collins

Area: Midtown East, Third Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets

Little Collins shares its name with the Melbourne CBD street, and it means it. The owners say they set out to recreate the cafés of their hometown and bring Melbourne's café culture to New York [9]. The menu reads like home: a Brekkie section, The Smash (avocado and feta on multigrain), an Anzac biscuit with your coffee, and a flat white, piccolo or babyccino for the kids. There's even South Australian sauvignon blanc and a McLaren Vale shiraz [10]. If you work near Grand Central, this is your morning coffee sorted.

Two Hands

Area: Tribeca, Church Street

Two Hands draws on Australia's food scene and relaxed beach life, and its chef, Frankie Cox, was born in Melbourne [1]. Expect bright, healthy food and properly made flat whites, with beer, wine and cocktails later in the day [1]. It's walk-in only, so turn up rather than trying to book [1]. Order the beet-cured salmon toast if it's on.

Banter

Area: Greenwich Village (Sullivan Street), West Village (Hudson Street) and Murray Hill (East 31st Street)

Banter is an all-day café with Australian roots, serving what it describes as health-conscious Australian fare [4]. It has three Manhattan cafés, and the Murray Hill one also runs an evening menu. Order a flat white and something green, then linger. Banter has been employee-owned since 2023 [4].

Little Ruby's

Area: Soho, Murray Hill, East Village, West Village and Williamsburg

Little Ruby's has been bringing Australian café culture to New York since 2002, which makes it one of the originals [2]. Many Aussies still just call it Ruby's. It's open for brekkie, lunch and dinner seven days a week, and the signature order is the Bronte burger, named for a Sydney beach suburb, alongside ricotta hotcakes on the brunch menu [2].

Hole in the Wall

Area: Flatiron, Murray Hill, Williamsburg and the Lower East Side

Hole in the Wall pitches itself as "the best Australian brunch in NYC". Its Flatiron, Murray Hill and Williamsburg sites run all-day menus, and a newer Lower East Side café does coffee, pastries and light bites [7]. It works well for a group brunch where everyone wants something different.

Bluestone Lane

Area: Across Manhattan, including the Upper East Side and Madison Avenue

Bluestone Lane is the Australian-inspired chain you'll see all over the US. It says it brings "Aussie café culture" to America, roasts its coffee in New York and runs more than 55 cafés and coffee shops nationally [8]. In Manhattan, its locations page lists cafés on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side and on Madison Avenue, with a Hell's Kitchen site marked as coming soon [8]. It's not a hidden gem. It is a reliable flat white near the office.

Restaurants and a pub-style bistro

Dudleys

Area: Lower East Side, corner of Orchard and Broome

Dudleys is the closest thing on this list to a local at home. It's designed to evoke a traditional Australian corner pub and bistro, and its site calls it an Australian restaurant [5]. The menu has a Brekkie Time section, a Bronte Burger with sweet chilli sauce, avo toast, a flat white and an Aussie ginger beer [6]. The wine list leans European and Californian rather than Barossa [6]. Come for a long lunch or an after-work drink and settle in.

Where to watch the footy and the cricket

Here's the honest bit. New York doesn't have an Aussie sports bar we could confirm is still running in 2026. Some of the venues that used to show AFL and NRL have closed, and we couldn't verify that others still do.

The time zone doesn't help. New York is 14 to 16 hours behind Sydney and Melbourne, so an afternoon AFL Grand Final lands late on a Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday. NRL and State of Origin are similar.

What works:

Ask the footy crowd. Anyone playing or following Aussie rules locally will know which bar opened late for the last big game.
Ask the bar. Many Irish and sports bars in Midtown and the East Village will screen a match if you call ahead and promise a crowd. Confirm they have the right streaming service.
Post in the group in September. Watch parties move from year to year, and the people organising them post where they're going.
Turn up early. A small bar with one screen fills fast.

All the venues at a glance

Venue	Type	Area
Little Collins	Café, Melbourne-style	Midtown East
Two Hands	Café, brunch, bar	Tribeca
Banter	Café, all-day	Greenwich Village; West Village; Murray Hill
Little Ruby's	Café, brunch, dinner	Soho; Murray Hill; East Village; West Village; Williamsburg
Hole in the Wall	Café, brunch	Flatiron; Murray Hill; Williamsburg; Lower East Side
Bluestone Lane	Café chain	Upper East Side; Madison Avenue
Dudleys	Restaurant, pub-style bistro	Lower East Side

Aussie groceries and a taste of home

New York doesn't have a dedicated Australian grocer we could confirm. Vegemite and Tim Tams turn up in international aisles and specialty shops, usually at a mark-up, and plenty of Aussies stock up on trips home or ask visiting family to pack an extra jar. For a meat pie, the gap left by DUB Pies is real [3]. Ask around before you give up.

Want more tips like this? Join Cooee USA, our Facebook group for Australians in the USA, where members swap where to find a decent pie, which bar has the footy on and who just spotted Twisties in Queens.

For the bigger picture on community, clubs and the American Australian Association, read Aussie life in New York.

A tip before you go: menus and hours change. Check the venue's own site before a special trip.

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