Lait Noir

Lait Noir is a café in Brisbane CBD built around coffee, quick breakfast, savoury lunch options, pastries and sweets. Its menu covers familiar café staples alongside a distinctly French-leaning pastry selection, making it suitable for a weekday coffee run, a takeaway breakfast or something sweet with your order. The website lists weekday pickup from 7:30 am to 2:30 pm, while online ordering is currently noted as temporarily unavailable.

Breakfast ranges from simple sourdough with Vegemite, jam and butter, or peanut butter, to more substantial options such as the brekky wrap with scrambled eggs, bacon, hash brown, caramelised onion, cheese and barbecue sauce. There is also avocado on sourdough with Persian feta and balsamic, a bacon, egg and cheese English muffin, and ham and cheese croissants. For a quick savoury option later in the day, the menu includes chicken and avocado, beef, Italian-style and halloumi sandwiches, as well as a chicken wrap with roasted chicken and antipasto-style vegetables.

Pastries are a strong part of the offering, with plain, almond, pistachio and chocolate-almond croissants, pain au chocolat, apple cinnamon and blueberry muffins, banana bread, palmier and a mini French caramel doughnut. The all-day savoury section adds sausage rolls, spinach and ricotta sausage rolls, quiche Lorraine, vegetable frittata, chicken and leek pie with salad, and beef pie with salad. Dessert choices include a flourless chocolate and walnut brownie, carrot cake, Parisian flan, caramel cookie, and cranberry and pistachio slice.

Drinks extend beyond standard espresso coffee, with lattes, flat whites, cappuccinos, long blacks, chai, dirty chai, matcha, turmeric lattes, hot chocolate and mocha. Cold choices include iced coffee, iced lattes, iced chai, iced matcha, a house-made chocolate frappe, smoothies and cold-pressed juices. The menu also lists weekday breakfast deals and a lunch deal, though the website does not provide detail about the café’s seating, interior or the people behind the business. With its broad takeaway menu and weekday service, Lait Noir is best suited to solo customers and nearby workers looking for coffee, a pastry or a practical breakfast and lunch option in the Brisbane CBD.