Warnies Cafe
"The best local Central Coast Cafe"
Warnies Café, established over 70 years ago, brings fun and good food the Central Coast.
Our History
THe Building
Not just a fun place to eat, but important to the community
Warnies Café beautiful building is believed to built in 1897. The building is a beautiful, solid brick building that is heritage listed with the external wrap verandas now closed in for our diners to enjoy. A lot of people ask us if this building was the train master’s cottage, but it was just a home lived in by the Wilson Family and many more. Not long ago, we held a 70th birthday party at Warnies Café for one of the members of the Wilson family and often have people visit who once lived in the home.
The building was originally used as a General Store before becoming a general store/café and now just a café. Some of the beautiful features of the building include the solid brick internal walls, old fire places, and pull string light switches which we still use to this day.
Warnies Café sits on a beautiful 6 acre lot alongside the railway line where the kids love to sit and watch the trains go by. One of the many recognisable sounds at Warnies Café would be the train boom-gate crossing bells that still get used to this day.
Meet the Team
Jayne & Liam Parsons
Owners
Jayne & Liam have owned the wonderful Warnies Cafe for 10 years now purchasing the beloved Cafe in 2015.
Together Jayne & Liam make the perfect team as Jayne has a enourmos passion for all things coffee and creativity. The Crazy Shakes came from Jaynes brain many years ago, and you will often find her behind theCoffee Machine Early in the mornings and floating around throughout the day.Meanwhile Liam has a passion for Food and cooking for people. You will always find Liam is the kitchen working at a million miles an hour.
Gina
Manager
Mackenzie
Barista, Super All Rounder
Suzie
Reservation Queen
Josh
Chef
Izzy
Barista, All Rounder
Lucy
Front Counter, Barista
Josh
Crazy Shakes, Kitchen, Prep Man
Sherwin
Barista, All Rounder
Abbie
Crazy Shakes, All Rounder
Amber-Jade
Food Runner, All Rounder
Alex
Chef
Ruby
Chef
Linzi
All Rounder
Harmony
All Rounder
Our Passion
Our Mission
We just love food!
Warnies Cafe is owned and operated by Jayne & Liam Parsons, you will often find Jayne on the coffee machine in the early mornings and Liam heading up the kitchen team.
Our mission at Warnies Café and Restaurant is to provide a great, fun, family friendly, relaxed dining experience. Warnies Café has a great amount of space for the kids to run around or you can enjoy dining in one of our many different rooms within the café.
We pride ourselves on using Australian made milk brand Norco, our fruit and vegetable supplier, JT Providores, pride themselves on using Australian grown produce and our fresh meat is sourced from our local butcher Kanwal Meat Market. We aim to support all things local where possible and appreciate all small businesses that support us.
Warnies is situated in a beautiful old heritage listed building that was build in 1885 and is located on 8 Acres of land in Warnervale, we are right alongside the train line so the kids love coming and watching the trains go by.
FUN FACTs
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Where did the name come from?
Warnies is short for Warnervale, the suburb where we are located, the name Warnervale coming from its founder Albert Hamlyn Warner in 1893. A lot of locals would recognise a few things from his name including the road next to Warnies being Albert Warner Drive, the suburb next to Warnervale being Hamlyn Terrace and many roads in the area i.e. Louisiana, Virginia and Minnesota roads all coming from his son’s favourite places they visited in America while on holiday.
Where did the Crazy Shakes come from?
When we bought the café, we had little knowledge of café life and purchased some milkshake glasses we thought we would use to serve milkshakes in. However, when we looked at it, we realised they were not right and put them under the bench. One day, Jayne and Harley found these glasses and decided to try use them for something. We started playing around with them and created a milkshake with a Curly Wurly and some marshmallows on it. A customer walked by and asked if we would make some of them for her kids and so we did. After that we took the idea and started creating.
What are the sounds that come over the speaker in the playground?
They are geese sounds to scare away the crows.