Felici

Felici is a Rundle Street staple. I’m a big fan of this coffee shop populated by an array of regulars for its great coffee and nice light meals. Felici has always consistently delivered me a great flat white and a pretty good long black as well as a nice selection of light lunch and breakfast options that are perfect for a quick eat in between lectures, meetings or errands (all the times I come here!).
Felici has a great atmosphere, backing on to the Old Market laneways with wide windows and chic (if ever so slightly uncomfortable) furnishings, its a place to lurk whilst you type up emails (free wifi) or read your latest novel.
Felici also offers up an array of juices which I have never tried, but am almost always tempted by due to their recipes but if I’m honest, its the coffee that keeps me coming back. Ideal for a catch up with your mate in the morning to spill the gossip.

was looking for somewhere else Unilocal sent me but it’s already 30 degrees out & not 9am yet and still a few blocks away so… Felici by default & a happy decision it was! a lovely cool spacious haven with high ceilings, tables or a huge share bench, and music at a conversational level.
Lovely staff let me order from the lunch menu & oh mama. $ 10 fava beans with tahini sauce, lashings of lemon, olice oil, diced tomato & onion with mountain bread HIT THE SPOT LIKE A MOFO. The magician/​chef somehow made the toasted mountain bread stay in a cone shape so I could just spoon in the muddammas beans. I want it again for lunch.
Fresh delicious middle eastern food and a really good coffee for under $ 15, yeehah.

Great vibe and coffee here.
The atmosphere on a Sunday morning here is relaxed and cool with almost a hipster side to it but not!
Relaxed and laid back place to enjoy their coffee … didn’t eat here but the food looked good.

I love the décor of Felici, I think it has such a cool look with it’s beautiful lights, and chalkboard wall, and mismatched chairs which are all so cool.
The staff have always been pleasant to me here which is also a high point.
However, I have never been particularly enamoured with the coffee or other options. I’ve given Felici a few tries but the coffee is expensive for the quality I tend to find and there are so many cafes nearby doing such excellent work.
The gluten free lemon friand I had today was hard on the outside, very dense, and really difficult to cut through. The lemon flavour was fleeting and unfortunately only dabbed on the top. Friands have so much potential and it’s a real shame when they let you down.
The Iced tea was lovely (house made) but I’d love to see it done with real tea leaves, not just bags. That being said I had a lovely, large mason jar full of the herbal beverage.
A little too expensive for the quality of products I’ve found. I’ll probably be back to try the green juice because they look delicious but I’m not entirely convinced just yet about Felici being a constant in my life.

The staff can be a bit rude and slow at times but they make up for it with the food! Fatteh is a MUST at any time of the day!

Fantastic coffee with a bit of a hipster vibe which would normally annoy me but in this case I liked it.
It’s only a very small store but I could tell they’re really into their coffee. Service was pretty good as it tends to be in Adelaide. Not snooty but not over-​friendly either.

We’ve had breakfast here after some other places were closed so I have to give this guys a point for being open at 0800 on Sunday morning.
The café is carefully decorated with pieces of wallpapers and some random things have been put on the wall such as an old phone, an antique lantern, a teddy bear trying to get out of the box and old wooden again randomly selected chairs that I may not even be cool enough to understand the purpose of. They also seem very environmentally frozen since only one of the lights are on out of the five that is over the large parallel table in there.
Coming from Melbourne and seeing the culture, quality and standards that we hold so dear about Melbourne, I have to say so far I am disappointed with this place.
There are a few staff here and being this time of the day there are not any where near enough customer by the food still took like a long time to get to us.
We had the «Middle Eastern breakfast platter» which is inconsistent as there were too much of labneh and too little of the mountain bread (bread was really nice) and the rest of the ingredients (olives, tomatoes, cucumbers and a few leaves of mint) were all gods cooking and they were perfect. It was a really healthy and not nearly enough for the somewhere between thirty dollars that was paid for altogether with the coffee.

Alright Felici,
If I am going to cheat on my month-​old relationship with Taste Baguette down the street, it might as well be you.
A cozy environ inside: a perilous act between a pretentious environment (particularly the tables outside) and the closest I’ve seen in Adelaide to a down-​to-​earth college coffee shop (on the inside). Has better hours than most of the other establishments on the street.
Coffee is decent, although I still yearn for Taste Baguette.
Staff seem cold if you are a passersby, but if you stop in, the smiles are unfurled.
I am dangerously about to obtain a mistress.
But I should make that call after nibbling its treats
–til next time.

It felt like this «who’s who» coffee shop just popped up out of no where a couple years ago. Ever since it has been the subject of various marketing efforts that have been successful in portraying the image of the chic Adelaide resident.
Now lets get to the good stuff. Walking in the interior is fresh and modern, staff are all dressed in black (keeping it simple), and everything is open so you can be seen, because yes, you want to be seen here. This is the type of coffee place where you go not only for the overprices slightly above average coffee, the slighty dry but nonetheless delicious snacks, the great location bam! smack! in the middle of Rundle street, but to be seen consuming these goods by your fellow chic Adelaide residents.
The coffee is nice but not groundbreaking, the service is okay but don’t expect to form a long term relationship with the barista and the only real reason you’ll pay the inflated prices is because it’s Felici, and that’s a good enough reason for me.

This is a nice spot to have a snack and coffee. So many places in Adelaide to do just that and I guess they all compete a little, but probably not quite as intensely as the way they do in this trendy end of the city where everyone wants to be the top spot for folk to have their drink and feed. I always enjoy Felici in the morning on the way in to the city. When I lived in the Norwood area and worked in the city I would indulge myself with a snack and call it breakfast along my way in, and usually it would be here. I fear it is becoming a little too trendy for me now. You’d be surprised at how the staff of most venues tend to give you less warm service once they have reached the critical mass of trendy customers, and you suddenly look old and too close to being a hippy to warrant much more than cold fish delivery of service.
If you enjoy a nice coffee and a fresh snack I couldn’t fault this place, but I would suggest you don’t go in unless you look quite fresh and schmick; unless you enjoy challenging the status quo, in that case you may find a few amusing experiences to be had here. They can only raise their eyebrows so far before they start to look pretty ridiculous I reckon.

It wasn’t that long ago that the coffee shop now known as Felici used to be Un Café Bar. Though I do like Un Café Bar and Illy coffee, Felici has really outdone its predecessor in both its coffee and its service.
The interior has seen a dramatic reinvention with classy lanterns and tasteful posters, and the outdoor seats and tables have been stepped up too. The coffee is amazing and rivals a lot of the other cafes on Rundle Street. Each coffee is accompanied with a complementary cookie and, although I’m easily won over, I think it is precisely this kind of service that makes hanging out at Felici enjoyable. The staff is always friendly, polite, and generally in good spirits.
The menu isn’t too diverse, mostly comprised of sandwiches, focaccias and salads. I recently tried a chicken focaccia that was above my expectations, but I don’t think Felici places much of its focus on food. This is completely fine, as they’re coffee more than makes up for it. I’m a firm believer of keeping it simple.

I feel differently about Felici depending on the day. Being a local on the street, I go here a lot for the $ 3 coffee you get when you buy an East Ender mug. This is a huge mug of coffee for a good price.
Their coffee is smooth and not very strong. If I’m feeling gittery already, I like it. But if I need that strong caffeine hit, I don’t feel fully satisfied with Felici. It really depends how you like your coffee.
In terms of atmosphere, it’s one of the better cafes along the street. It’s modern and bright, a nice place to sit to read one of their many magazines, or sit on the tables on the footpath and watch the Rundle St action go past.
Their food is over-​priced, and not very exciting. They do a standard range of wraps and focaccias, and a small range of tiny cakes. The cakes are okay, but not for the price.
It’s definitely a more ‘hip’ location, and though the staff really add to this image, they’re friendly and nice. The baristas make my day when they make me my take-​away latte then put a little biscuit in my eager paw. All the sit in coffees come with a delicious little Italian biscuit, but not the take-​aways. However, it only requires a little bit of flirting of your part, and that biscuit is yours.

I thought this place was pretty prententious at first. And that impression really has stuck with me through my first experience there.
Now, I normally don’t like that sort of thing, so there must be some reason why I’m giving them four stars, right? Well, yeah, there is. They do a really good coffee. I had my traditional cappuccino with two sugars, and it was beautiful.
I don’t think I’m really their target demographic, though. Overweight, daggy mid-​30s guys really aren’t who this place is marketed to, but that’s alright, I don’t really care as long as the coffee is good.
The service was alright, but there’s something about the pretentiousness of the place that seems to have infected the staff a little too. They’re a bit snobby. Just a bit.

Clever marketing an a killer location make Felici a real winner for coffee, small lunches and desserts on competitive Rundle Street.
They have recently recruited a bunch of ‘East End’ girls (who are semi local celebs) to promote Rundle St and Felici.
It’s a pretty hip place to hang and somewhere to be seen.
There is long high benches inside where people can mingle and work on their laptops. There is also outdoor seating on the recently renovated footpath area which is much nicer than previous.
With plenty of other cafes along this the strip, Felici has made a name for themselves and are beginning to stand out from the crowd. And their food and drinks aren’t too bad either.