Well Co. Cafe

This a great café with a nice atmosphere especially on the balcony, with an interesting menu bearing fresh food and drinks. This is a no brainer go-​to café that also happens to open til late!

Best coffee in Glebe after many days of samplings. Breakfast is absolutely solid, with tasty food and portion sizes an American can appreciate.

I’ve been coming to this place since uni days and it’s one of those places that retained its old charms — except now it has free wifi. On any given weeknight you’ll still see students meeting up or doing assignments upstairs.
This café is one of those places where you can quietly read a book by yourself and not get funny looks. Go upstairs for more privacy — great place for an intimate date, a quiet dinner or language lessons (I kid you not — there was a couple doing beginner Japanese lesson there tonight!)
The ppl working here are super friendly and helpful, they have specials each night so do ask to check what’s on special tonight. As for food options, I quite like the pita bread cheese rolls for a snack while I study. It goes really well with their loose leaf chai tea. Don’t forget to ask for some honey to sweeten up the chai.
If I’m really hungry, say after a few hours of feeding my brain, I normally order their yummy chicken linguine to fill my belly. The linguine comes in a creamy sundried tomato sauce and chicken thighs. I like to spice it up with some dried chilli flakes too! Goes well with Pinot Gris (get a bottle if you need help with creative writing assignments).

I’m not absolutely sure why WellCo is labelled as an ‘internet café’, but we’ll go with that. If I want a sober late night in the inner-​west, WellCo is usually my choice.
Ambience is pleasant. Upstairs has balcony, multiple powerpoints for laptop/​phone charging. Street-​level seating is fine but if you don’t like cigarette smokes you may wish to sit away from the outdoor seats. Friday/​Saturday nights feature live folk music, very nice for unwinding.
Coffee is solid; get the LSD (latte soy dandelion) if you don’t fancy caffeine late-​night. Nice range of small desserts.
Park at Broadway shopping centre and walk down the ramp to Glebe Point Road. Two hours free parking.

A quintessential uni café. I was a regular back in 2005. Good coffee, free wifi, yummy food, and customers with personality. Downstairs you can watch the coming and going. Upstairs has more space, more light, and more quiet.
Swung by this weekend, not much has changed. Still a go to spot in Ultimo.

I first came to this place with a friend and although that friendship has been and gone this café hasn’t! I fell in love with it instantly because of the great selection of music they play softly in the background, stuff like The Beatles, Radiohead, other classics and some new stuff like Beach House.
The coffee here is great too, strong hard hitting stuff. I usually just order a flat white but when I’m feeling fancy I get the affogato — so delicious! I’ve also tried a mint and pineapple frappé and it was so yummy and their other ones are too. On the few occasions I’ve ordered food it was very good, though a tad overpriced.
The décor is low key and dark so it’s good if you want some privacy to study, with your laptop or without since they have free WiFi that you just ask the password along with your food/​drink order. Very friendly service and they don’t judge you for prolonged studying or WiFi usage — something I appreciate a lot and have taken advantage of. There’s an upstairs patio that is quieter, has better lighting and which immediately head for when I come here.
Hot tip! If you’re a Sydney uni student they offer Access discounts for transactions over $ 10!

Well Connected has been a life saver on many a Saturday/​Sunday morning hangover. With a super accessible location and a nice casual layout, its no wonder we so frequently visit.
The food is delicious and priced quite fairly considering location and portion sizes, however the breakfast menu by far outweighs the lunch or dinner menu. The coffee here is always good, wouldn’t say its greatest caffeine hit in Sydney but its reliable and drinkable.
The place does fill up quite fast and if your party consists of more than 2 people it may be hard to snag a place to sit, however something usually frees up fast and if you drop by on a Saturday the Glebe Markets are right across the road to pass the time.
I’d definitely recommend a visit, the Pesto Scrambled eggs are a favourite of mine!

You know, Well Connected is where I first encountered the Internet. It was 1997, and I had a crush on a boy who was very advanced with these things. He already had a live journal or website of some kind, and I wanted to read it. So … I took a few girls with me, and we drank milkshakes and frappes, and used Well Connected’s dial-​up service. I remember that day left me with a peculiar empty feeling … The feeling of of not knowing what to search for on AltaVista.
16 years on, Well Connected still exists. And people still go there to use the Internet (although now they want to know the wifi password).
Little has changed in the décor, really. It’s full of students, studying, smoking, gossiping, facebooking. The food isn’t great, but it’s one of those places you can stay for hours and no one gives you funny looks. (Unlike nearby Sappho, with their angry anti-​studying signage.) The upstairs balcony at Well Connected affords views of Glebe Point Road and Broadway. I’m glad this place hasn’t smartened up its act.
Admittedly, they have a liquor licence now, and when the marking i had to do got particularly dire, I resorted to the sure-​fire combo of a beer and a burrito. The girls next to me looked about 15… smoking and drinking and painting each other’s nails … It’s nice to know there are still some good teenage hangouts around. (PS — they could well have been 18, I have no idea.)

Well Connected Internet Café is probably one of the fewest cafes in Glebe with internet connection which is a major plus if you want to lounge and study simultaneously. The coffee here is great too! I never tried the food so I can’t comment.
They have two floors with a patio on the top floor which allows for ‘outdoor’ seating and it looks down to Glebe Point Rd. The atmosphere is full of students, hipsters and random folks enjoying a newspaper. I recommend this place for it’s seating upstairs.

2.5 stars — I’m only basing this review on the desserts, which seemed a bit too sweet (and I have a sweet tooth!) and tasted a bit artificial.
The space is great though and I came for some live music and it seemed like a pretty chilled and relaxed environment.

The two levels of WellCo, the café formerly known as Well Connected, are the ideal location for group study sessions.
The large café is divided into a few different sections, allowing for private group discussions, brainstorming and, if this works for you, debating aloud to yourself without too many people noticing. There are a bunch of power points for laptops and the perfected combination of lounges and sturdy table tops, for a chilled study environment out of the confines of your bedroom. Wifi is free, although it is limited to one hour, thus forcing you to make the most of your study time and not waste your precious internet minutes frollicking on facebook.
I stopped coming here a year or two ago, unimpressed by their coffee and their slightly expensive breakfast menu. Returning now (drawn in by the free internet and newly Single Origin coffee beans), I am happily impressed by the café’s minor changes.
The coffee now is quite alright and the menu is reasonably priced. Also, the menu is far more appealing than on my last trip and the food is better still. I had the tuna salad which was tasty, although a little dressing heavy. My companions had the fish burger, the tofu salad and the soy burger, all equally tasty and affordable choices.
Whilst no longer a uni student, the encouraging environment of WellCo is a comfort on any given week day, as you can type away on your computer, egged on by the tables of hardworking/​cramming uni students around you. Come weekends, however, there’s a distinct air of rejoice at WellCo and you join the students in celebrating the completion of another week of work. Head upstairs to the balcony for the prime seats.
P. S. They occasionally have live music at night, perfectly accompanied with delectable desserts and a glass (or two) of wine.

Well Connected Café is one of the largest cafes I’ve seen in Sydney. In addition to having an outdoor seating area in the front and a large ground floor, there is also an upstairs area. If you’re the type of person that chain-​smokes while pumping out an essay or other miscellaneous work, walk straight up the stairs to the balcony where you can grab a seat at one of the tables. Smoking is allowed! Furthermore, these tables are big enough to host a group of people if you’re working on a project.
Another plus is that it has free Wi-​Fi. It was a bit of a struggle getting the password for the Wi-​Fi, as I waited 15 minutes to get my receipt with login information. And it sucks that you need a new login code every hour. But, this essentially means that you could stay here all day, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and working on your laptop.
Last time I was here, I had a Chai tea for $ 4. It was lackluster and definitely not as «spicy» as I would have liked. There’s a breakfast menu with traditional egg and cereal dishes, as well as a lunch menu filled with wraps and paninis.

I had gathered that Well Connected was an Internet café: they put it in the name and it is there for all to read. I have never actually used the Internet facilities here, however, so I will leave it to others to espouse the relative values of their connection offerings. What this means is that I was just using it as a regular café café, unaware of the world of the intarwebz which lay just within reach.
Strangely, Well Connected never seems to be crowded, just merely populated. The décor is nice enough; for anyone who was trapped watching daytime TV as a kid, it reminds me of Café Insomnia from The Bold And The Beautiful. Which is a roundabout way of saying that it reminds me of the Nineties. The upper deck is really nice in summer (bring sunnies, the sun sets in that direction) and is a great place to lounge about in the afternoon and chat.
Well Connected is also a decent place for a casual quasi coffee date: it is fairly quiet in here and easy for the winning banter and shiny puns that people love you for to be heard by the object of your attraction.

With all the competition out there these days you’d want to have a catchy name for your café. At Well Co (short for connected) you immediately think great, a hub where interesting people meet to talk about interesting things. That is what they try to achieve at Well Co and also, you get high speed internet here. The menu is really diverse and has quite a grand selection — chocolate lasagne, ricotta pancakes — good for coffee and deserts there are probably more tables full than bare. For a coffee shop on a very busy coffee strip it does quite well. Great option for breakfast worth the early start on the weekend. Tables for one are ok, there is a bench along the front window that you can set up your lap top on and plug away.

Ever have those days where you would enjoy nothing more than treating yourself to a glass of red and a huge muesli cookie for dinner? Well Co. Café might just be the perfect place for this. Its chilled out vibe transcends the two levels and is highlighted by relaxing music and comfortable seating. Sit outside to soak in some local Glebe flavor, or tuck away at a more private table upstairs.
The coffee is among the best along Glebe Point Road with regard to taste and aesthetics. Yeah, girlfriend knows her beans! If you’re feeling shameless, take a fork stab at the chocolate lasagna, housed alongside other sweets in the pastry display case. I did once and left with a massive stomachache, but perhaps you’re more sugar invincible than me. If so, definitely, definitely go for it.

In an area that with a hodgepodge of students, hippies, lecture and artists, this two story café is an easy meeting place. We come here for the free WiFi to work and drink large cups of coffee. The food or coffee isn’t particularly great, but it’s cost effective and they are laptop friendly (at least for an hour ((that’s the time limit on the free WiFi)). Lot’s of outlets to plug in to and the dark and grungy décor is comfortable and offset by the light coming through the open front and 2 patios on the second floor. The other good quality is that it is open late (till 10 or 11pm most of the week). If you need a place to grab a bite to eat while doing some computer work it’s a great place to… well…“connect”.

I have a BIG place in my heart for the special people at the Well Connected internet Café. Whilst I was starting my business I used to go there and spend days at a time eating and using their internet. The staff were always very friendly and super supportive. i never felt they were unhappy to have me and they made me feel like one of the fabulous regulars.
Well connected is a restaurant and an internet café. Inside you’ll find heaps of people with their laptops open typing away… but you’ll also find as many patrons sans technology. This is probably because on its own Well Connected is a great café.
The décor is super grundgy — its almost like you’re at one your retro friends houses with red vinyl seats or comfy chilled couches. There’s an upstairs and a downstairs and i recommend upstairs if you’re looking for a little bit of privacy.
The foods great and the prices really reasonable. Mains cost between $ 10 — $ 15 and you’ll find thats there’s quite a lot of variety.
During summer I became addicted to the mint pinepple frappes — a delicious treat to deal with the sun.
I am proud to endorse this place… they’ve treated me well and I believe you’ll feel the same.