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Allen Kao has opened A Team Deli in Grange on Brisbane's northside, focusing on specialty coffee and sandwiches rather than a full cafe menu. The deli serves coffee from Cavalier Coffee Roasters and offers unique beverage options like banana bread cold foam with iced latte. Sandwiches include Japanese beef curry and cheese with fig jam on sourdough toasties, among others. A Team Deli has been unexpectedly busy during the school holidays despite its recent opening.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
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Allen Kao, who co-owned Better Day in Hendra, opened A Team Deli on Days Road in Grange, Brisbane, this week. Unlike the nearby full-service cafe Huskk, A Team Deli focuses on specialty coffee and sandwiches. The cafe offers popular items such as a chicken melt with pickles and caramelized onions, Japanese beef curry with American cheese and curry mayo, and banana bread cold foam. Kao notes that while there are many full-menu cafes south of the river, options for specialty coffee in northern Brisbane are limited. A Team Deli aims to fill this gap by offering high-quality coffee and unique sandwich offerings, catering to a growing demand for specialized food and beverage experiences in the area.
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It’s interesting, the opportunities for hospitality businesses that still exist in Brisbane’s suburbs.
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Not quite so many – particularly once you venture beyond the CBD and inner suburbs.
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“I feel you get a lot of options south of the river,” says Allen Kao, who previously co-owned Better Day in Hendra.
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“But on the northside I don’t really feel you can get many different things apart from a full-menu cafe.
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And not that many specialty coffee outlets … there are full-menu cafes around here that do good coffee, but not specialty coffee.
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“Around here” is Days Road in Grange, where Kao this week opened A Team Deli.
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Compared with the popular (and good) full-service Huskk down the hill, this is much more stripped back.
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Like many operators post-pandemic, Kao has elected to do just a couple of things and do them well – in this case, specialty coffee and sandwiches.
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The cafe itself – previously home to an antique dealer – is similarly stripped back in its design.
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An old weatherboard shop with large picture windows, Kao has contrasted its timber floorboards with a stainless-steel island counter and understated feature lighting.
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Much of the seating is on a pair of verandahs that flank the central space.
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The cafe’s striking green and white fascia board comes courtesy of Chih-Wei “Tiger” Hsu, who co-owns and completed the branding for Butter in Gaythorne and Alby’s in Wavell Heights.
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For drinks, coffee comes from Virginia’s Cavalier Coffee Roasters and is served espresso and via batch brew.
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For food, banana bread and crumpets are served with house-made cinnamon butter, and a bacon and egg muffin is served with American cheese and house-made AT sauce (a combination of barbecue sauce and the cafe’s house herby mayonnaise)
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they’re really playing a supporting role to a bunch of toasted and fresh sandwiches.
Most popular so far among the sourdough toasties, Kao says, is a chicken melt with pickles and caramelised onions, but there’s also Japanese beef curry with American cheese and curry mayo, and cheese and fig jam.
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The fresh sandwiches are served on ciabatta and include beef brisket with pickles, caramelised onions, lettuce, American cheese and AT sauce; chicken caesar pickled onions and fried shallots; and peppercorn mortadella with stracciatella, gherkins, honey and crushed almonds.
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“The neighbourhood and community know us already,” Kao says.
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“We’ve been running the cafe softly for a couple of weeks before the official launch and it’s been busier than we expected, given it’s been the school holidays.”
Open Mon-Fri 6am-2pm, Sat-Sun 6.30am-2pm
46 Days Road, Grange
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