
Autumn Rooms
A fine dining café on Darby Street for nearly 8 years, featuring seasonal menus made with care, table service, and bottomless brunch on Saturdays.
127 Darby Street, Newcastle NSW 2300
View profileHand-crafted gelato and sorbet with a rotating menu of decadent flavours, open until 10pm nightly and 11pm on weekends - the perfect evening sweet treat on Darby Street.
Monella Gelato fills a specific and important niche on Darby Street: quality dessert, available late. With gelato and sorbet served until 10pm (11pm on Fridays and Saturdays), it’s the natural end to an evening out on the strip.
The rotating flavour menu keeps the selection interesting across seasons, with hand-crafted gelato and sorbet made to a standard that rewards repeat visits. Whether you’re after a classic or something more inventive, the selection generally has both.
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