Based on one of Newcastle city’s main entrances and providing Merewether locals with morning caffeine and fresh meals to match is Table 1 Espresso cafe on City Road. Guests relax in this family-friendly cafe surrounded by warm tones, perusing daily blackboard specials or catch-up outside to enjoy laid-back balmy days. With a local paddock to plate philosophy, Table 1 Espresso’s meals are often prepared with health conscious diners in mind, offering options like a lightly dusted calamari and fried haloumi salad served with rocket, cucumber, olives, semi-dried tomato, onion and haloumi bites. Freshen up with a Botanica cold pressed Supergreen juice with kale, celery, silverbeet, cucumber, apple and lemon or grab an Express takeaway item and hot Campos coffee on your way to work.