Café Tanja

Skip the usual Surry Hills brunch rotation. Crown Street’s real prize is this cozy, spice-scented room dishing out proper Maghreb soul. Sydney’s most obsessive tajine hunters routinely direct their friends straight to Café Tanja. Tight. Intimate. Pure family energy from the second you step inside. We’re talking deeply fragrant chicken tajines, spot-on kefta, and a date coffee that demands a second round. The hospitality is fiercely genuine—less like a restaurant, more like dining at a friend's house in Algiers. Order heavy, soak up the warmth, and bsaha. You won't shut up about this place.