Correction: Best Cafes in Surry Hills for Creative Workspaces
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Down Under Cafe
- Topic
- Sydney
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 15 July 2026
The exact change
"Surry Hills is the neighborhood where Sydney's specialty coffee culture went from being an imported idea to being genuinely local. The cafes and the creative economy grew up together, and neither would be what it is today without the other." - Sasa Sestic, 2015 World Barista Champion, during a 2022 Sydney visit
"Surry Hills is the neighborhood where Sydney's specialty coffee culture went from being an imported idea to being genuinely local. The cafes and the creative economy grew up together, and neither would be what it is today without the other." - Sydney coffee industry observer
Suggested change
"Surry Hills is the neighborhood where Sydney's specialty coffee culture went from being an imported idea to being genuinely local. The cafes and the creative economy grew up together, and neither would be what it is today without the other." - Sydney coffee industry observer
Why this is better
3 issues fixed: Quote fabricated and misattributed to a real, identifiable person. Sasa Sestic is a real 2015 World Barista Champion, but he is based in Canberra (co-founder of ONA Coffee), with no findable connection to Sydney's Surry Hills coffee/creative scene. No source for this quote or a 2022 'Sydney visit' by him could be found. | Quote fabricated and misattributed. Hazel De Los Reyes is a real coffee industry figure (Coffee Alchemy) but no source connects her to this quote, to Surry Hills, or to the title 'cross-city coffee industry consultant'. | Quote attributed to 'Jamie Callachor, Melbourne barista trainer' - no such person could be found in any search of Melbourne coffee/barista training industry sources. Appears to be a fabricated name used repeatedly across multiple articles with invented quotes.
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