Celebrating Excellence in Coffee Culture: The 2024 Love My Café Awards Winners

The 2024 Love My Café Awards have wrapped up in spectacular style, highlighting the dedication, passion, and heart of local cafés across Queensland and Northern New South Wales. With over 75,000 votes cast and 760 cafés registered, the awards celebrated the incredible contributions these cafés make to their communities.

Let’s take a moment to recognize the outstanding regional winners and runners-up who shone brightest in their categories:

Northern New South Wales

🌟 Winner: Dragonfly Café 
🥈 Runner-up: Happy Days

Scenic West

🌟 Winner: Country Soul Collective & Café
🥈 Runner-up: Jak & Mo Taste Co

Wide Bay

🌟 Winner: Operation Underground
🥈 Runner-up: Sexie Coffee

Gold Coast

🌟 Winner: Oasis & Co. Coffee
🥈 Runner-up: The Galleon 4223

Sunshine Coast

🌟 Winner: Brew Box Collective
🥈 Runner-up: Gun Cotton Café

Brisbane

🌟 Winner: Christina’s Vibes Café
🥈 Runner-up: York Street Espresso Bar

A Community Effort

The awards wouldn’t have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors: WOW Apps, BDO, Maleny Dairies and Beyond Payments. Their commitment to local businesses has made a meaningful impact, helping café owners thrive and build stronger community connections.

Congratulations to all the winners, runners-up, and finalists for your hard work and dedication! You’ve shown why cafés are the heart of our communities.

Here’s to another amazing year of celebrating local talent and the love of coffee. ☕💖

THE COFFEE COMMUNE

IN YOUR WORDS

Being partnered with the Coffee Commune was a logical extension of our business. It is a great opportunity to showcase our equipment range, however, we also see the immense value to the industry of being part of the Coffee Commune’s exceptional training facilities
Fabio Cordovado Director CWE
Labour laws are more and more complex and hard to understand; Through our membership with Coffee Commune, we have constant access to a HR/IR hotline. Quick and Easy.
Phil Johnson Founder and owner Chef
Ecco Bistro
Coffee Commune’s advice, support, and network, helped reduce the red tape, gave us direction, and saved us valuable time.
Sarah Buiso Restaurant Owner of Da Buiso
…if our clients grow, we grow. The Coffee Commune has been invaluable in helping us spread that message.
Vince Monardo Naked Syrups
We are passionate about collaborating with the coffee community to make a real difference for business owners. We look forward to continuing to work with The Coffee Commune.
Matt Allington Partner, Business Services
BDO (Australia)
…we’re passionate about helping businesses identify the things they can be doing to maximise performance.
Alessandro Calabrisello General Manager
Sanremo Coffee Machines Australia