Crepe House Cafe — Restaurant in Sydney

Despite the Eiffel Tower in the logo and a miniature version in the window, Crepe House Café isn’t French. “We are Greek; we grew up eating crepes,” owner Christina Varetimidis explains when I look perplexed.

It turns out that crepes are so popular in Greece, the number of crepe stands almost rivals the number of souvlaki stands. At these street-food venues, the standard crepe offering is folded and served in a paper cone. At Crepe House Café their crepes are served on plates, but they are made in the Greek style from a Greek recipe. You'll also find plenty of Greek flavours in their wide range of fillings.

The cafe is set at the base of a low-rise modern apartment block that is part of a short suburban shopping strip in Earlwood. It’s saved from the usual blandness with a quirky eye to decorating detail, running from clotheslines full of handwritten coffee cards; to taps pouring fake streams into red cups. You'll find everything from hanging glass terrariums to a veritable battalion of bare Edison bulbs.

With four garlands of coffee cards indicating a solid trade, it’s not really surprising to find that Toby’s Estate beans are put to good effect in the black matt La Marzocco coffee machine. Across both a Cappuccino ($4) and its summery cousin that many Greeks favour, the Freddo Cappuccino ($6), the coffee is robust but balanced, making it easy to like. If you're new to freddo cappucinos, it's basically espresso topped with frothy milk, served cold over ice - just give it a good stir. Fresh Juice ($7/each) in orange, carrot and celery, and the sharper apple, lemon and mint, will also suit sunny weather. You might also appreciate the acidity once you get stuck into the crepes.

The Crepe House Café menu is extensive and rambling. It runs over two double pages, spills onto a separate waffle, pancake and Evia sweet yoghurt menu, and also includes colourful chalkboard specials on the back wall. Look to the Greek alphabet for breakfast items; the Greek gods for savoury crepes; and the goddesses for the sweet stuff.

With shredded chicken breast, feta, mushrooms, baby spinach and shallots, all lashed with “special sauce”, Atlas ($16) reminds me of chicken sandwiches served with high tea. The interior is layered and surprisingly substantial, though the sauce – maybe honey Dijon mayo. – is a bit sweet for me.

Omelette No.3 ($16) is a thin, flat and savoury omelette flavoured with oregano, and topped with sundried tomatoes, Kalamata olives and the chalky feta we prefer at home - Dodoni. You’ll like it if you hate the thick, gooey-centred, French-style omelettes that I usually go for.

The trident-wielding god of the sea, Poseidon ($19), has your smoked salmon needs covered. His namesake offering takes the popular, orange brekky fish somewhere different by perching it upon a crepe filled with haloumi, fresh avocado spread, baby spinach, shallots and tomato. It’s fresh and likeable, though I was more a fan of Hermes ($15) myself. The god of war’s contribution is filled with turkey breast, bacon, tasty cheese, mushrooms and baby spinach, and then slashed with an appropriately red sauce (a tomato-mayo. concoction).

While I was personally excited to find that Crepe House Café was more than just a dessert bar, you might want to come here for the sweets. Despite giving the newer pancakes and waffles a whirl, to my tastebuds this cafe does best when they stick to their original crepe mission; so it’s the island goddess Calypso ($14) that best curries my favour with Nutella, strawberries, coconut and biscuit crumbs.

Thin, Baklava Gelato Pancakes ($15) were fragrant but super-sweet against baklava gelato, drizzled honey, walnuts and fluffy pyramids of whipped cream. The Hera Waffle ($16) is a thick, Belgian-style affair that’s lighter than most I've tried lately. Dressed with a simple combination of ricotta, fresh berries and maple syrup, Hera showed just why she’s considered the ideal woman in Greek mythology. Next time I’d like to try her namesake topping sandwiched...

Crepes are a popular item on menus around the world and many places do their own version of this dish. Where can you get some quality Crepes in Sydney, you may ask? Crepe House Earlwood is the place! It is easily accessible, being only a few minutes drive from the King Georges Rd exit from the M5.

The Crepe House is doing their version of Crepes, both sweet and savoury. Their Greek style crepes are a good light meal option. This place has a great atmosphere with bright and bubbly staff, a good social space, with many groups catching over a coffee and a bite to eat. The setting is relaxed with a good mix of background music. The decor has a slight industrial feel, with tap fittings converted into lights, cement beams and exposed brick.

Not only do they make great crepes, the crepe house also accomodates coffee lovers, no matter what the weather with traditional Greek Iced Coffee called Freddo’s, a really good iced coffee, just add sugar to taste. There were also plenty of other drinks to keep you content; milkshakes, iced chocolates, thick shakes and even imported Greek iced tea Tuvunu, which was very refreshing on a hot day.

The menu showcases a vast array of crepes and waffles, both sweet and savoury. The savoury crepes were all very tasty and named after Greek gods, our favourite was the Atlas, a thin crepe filled with a generous amount of chicken, feta, mushrooms, baby spinach, shallots and laced with their delicious special sauce.

For pescaterians, there is the Poseidon of course. A good flavour combination of salmon, avocado, baby spinach shallots and tomato.

For something meaty, the king of the gods Zeus is your pick. A meatlovers crepe stuffed with mozzarella, double smoked ham, bacon, pepperoni, cabanoss, tomato, feta and BBQ sauce.

Their specials menu featured a few great omelettes, including the one we tried with ham, cheese, spinach and mushrooms if you weren't keen on a crepe.

They can also adapt any of their crepes to suit gluten free diners.

The desserts were superb, from the start we had our eye on the waffles, topped with banana cinnamon, madagascan vanilla bean gelato, walnuts and their maple syrup and this certainly did not disappoint.

Their adaption of Greek dessert Bougasta was also a unanimous favourite. An amazing Greek custard, icing sugar and slithers of roasted almonds.

The light fluffy panckes with ricotta, fresh berries and real maple syrup was another great option as was the white chocolate, nutella caprice biscuit crepe, named after the owner Christina's daughter Antigone.

This is top spot to visit for socialising and for a bite to eat at any time of the day. All of the menu items were delicious, the staff were also great and made for a very welcoming atmosphere. It would be impossible to leave this place not being happy...

There is a buzz at this cute local cafe along a suburban high street in Earlwood on the weekend. Serving both savoury and sweet dishes, there is something for everyone and their long, generous opening hours means you can come in almost any time of the day.

Let’s start with the drinks menu - it is long and extensive, from your usual cafe favourites such as coffees, to inventive iced drinks such as the Greek inspired ‘Freddo’ drinks (I had the freddocino which was an iced coffee slushi with a double espresso shot and some chocolate syrup so no sugar was needed) to a variety of milkshakes and thickshakes including a fun lime green shake! There is also a plethora of juices if you wanna go healthy.

If you thought the drinks menu was extensive, the food menu is even more so! The savoury breakfast crepes we ate: ‘Alpha crepe’ - eggs, bacon, mushroom, cheese, spinach and tomato relish ‘Epsilon crepe’ - eggs, smoked salmon, spinach & hollandaise (my fave) ‘Sigma crepe’- eggs, cherry tomatoes, feta, avocado and balsamic

We also sampled two of their omelettes from the specials board: Smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, shallots, cherry tomatoes, spinach and mozzarella (my fave) Feta, olives, sun dried tomatoes and oregano

And then I was in dessert heaven with all of these deliciously decadent and beautiful crepes and waffles. With too many indulgent options on the menu, here is what we ate (and note the Greek goddess inspired names): waffle with Belgium chocolate gelato , Nutella, banana, strawberries and whipped cream ‘Bougatsu crepe’ - homemade bougatsu custard (Greek semolina custard), roasted almonds, cinnamon, icing sugar and ice cream (this was my fave) ‘Aphrodite crepe’ - milk chocolate, white chocolate & Kit Kat ‘Selene crepe’ - banana , maple syrup, cinnamon and walnuts ‘Calypso crepe’ - Nutella, strawberries, coconut and biscuit

What is lovely about this cafe is that they even have customer’s loyalty cards pinned the wall, what a clever idea!

Overall, I enjoyed the food and drinks here and would happily come back and bring friends.

Note: I dined as a guest of...