Java Lava Cafe

Great place for Sunday breakfast. All servers, baristas, even cooks are all friendly and provide excellent service. We have our "personal" menu item (slight changes that we have every week) and always prepared, serviced with a smile and enjoyed by us.

A good place for friendly gathering in Hornsby. I really like their coffee - my favourite one is cappucchino with amazing belgian chocolate - wow - it's coffee to die for!

They make best coffee i've ever had - cappuccino with delicious chocolate! Must try Java Lava's coffee when you are in Hornsby!

Got a recommendation from a friend, and the breakfast there was amazing ~ a cosy cafe in the winter months with scrumcious eggs Benedict and chai latte ~

Really good cafe. they have the best drinks and food!!! and i don't have to wait for ever for my food to come!!

I enjoy their bacon and egg rolls. They have cheap breakfast options and serve decent coffee. A nice place to grab a quick bite to eat.

I always enjoy my meals here.

Best Coffee friendly staff.

Went there with my sister for brunch, bacon on egg with turkish and a capuchino (about $15). Food was okay and coffee fair. Service was friendly and attentive and the place was full. Is it the best place in Hornsby - No, however it is reasonable.

When they first opened in Pennant Hills they were very good, now they are just a so so café, nothing special.

Mediocre design and basic food

Coffee good but service erratic. Since previous man and young lass have been overseas the place has gone downhill. Vegetarian breakfast was $16.90 but was extremely disappointing. Online menu indicates ricotta cheese but none on plate. Half a slice of tomato received and minute amount of avocado - not acceptable. Another patron ordered Aussie breakfast but received no bacon which was on the menu. Third patron paid $13.95 for one lamb shank in a soup bowl of sauce. Our 4th patron arrived late and ordered last but the first of our group to order received her meal last. Service terrible. Opening hours are not as indicated online with them often closed just after 5 and Wednesday evening before 7. Won't be going there again unless previous staff return. The two stars given was mainly for the coffee.

Friendly staff but we waited 20- 30 mins for a toasted sandwich and an omelette which i think is unreasonable. Our hot drinks were brought out 5 mins after ordering but food wasnt in sight. It seems my toasted sandwich had been made and left to get cold while the omelette was being prepared. I sent it back to get retoasted and was given a burnt top bread. I dont think they use a sandwich press they must grill it or something. Overall wasnt an enjoyable meal/ experience.

Okay, so the first time I visit this place a couple months ago, they give me peri peri chicken instead of hickory sauced chicken. I sent it back to the kitchen even though the waitress insisted it was correct. No, I hate chilli. I hate peri peri. And I know what hickory sauce tastes like. Send. It. Back.

Tonight, we get home delivery and I order the same hickory sauced chicken. Guess what arrived?

Yep. Peri peri chicken.

Honestly, does the cook not know the difference between hickory sauce and peri peri sauce?!

And what were the odds, huh? So I got my husband to ring them and they sent another meal to us -- this time hickory sauce.

The food is really good when they get it right but I won't be ordering hickory chicken from there again. These things come in threes, you know...

It's a nice little coffee shop but haven't been impressed with their coffee offering. My soy flat white was cold and tasted awful.

Pretty poor lately, possibly after change in management

Terrible service, long wait for food.

My girlfriends and I went there because it offered gluten free options but when we looked at the menu, most of the options were breakfast. The waitress came over to us 6 times after we had ordered because they didn't have items we'd ordered.
Two of us got daquiris and I would advise you against this if you dont like the taste of alcohol over the taste of fruit... We could only taste rum! Now lets get to the food...undercooked chips, awful sauces and nearly inedible meats.
Not eating here again!

Found a cockroach in my salad and was still made to pay for the meal...

Also heard from a friend that she found a dead spider in her meal. When she told the waitress, she took the spider out of the meal and jokingly asked "what spider?"

Horrible.