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Happy Shop

A fast-casual sibling to Happyfield serving chopped cheese sandwiches and beignets.

Erina Starkey

The BIG Happy burger with fries.
1 / 7The BIG Happy burger with fries. Sitthixay Ditthavong
Happy Shop has opened next door to Happyfield in Haberfield.
2 / 7Happy Shop has opened next door to Happyfield in Haberfield.Sitthixay Ditthavong
Happy Shop Cafe owners Chris Theodosi and Jesse Orleans in Haberfield.
3 / 7Happy Shop Cafe owners Chris Theodosi and Jesse Orleans in Haberfield.Sitthixay Ditthavong
The chopped cheese sandwich.
4 / 7The chopped cheese sandwich.Sitthixay Ditthavong
The beignets are deep-fried and showered in icing sugar.
5 / 7The beignets are deep-fried and showered in icing sugar.Sitthixay Ditthavong
The BIG Happy burger.
6 / 7The BIG Happy burger.Sitthixay Ditthavong
Order and pick up your meal from the service window.
7 / 7Order and pick up your meal from the service window.Sitthixay Ditthavong

Happy Shop

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Happyfield cafe in Haberfield is best known for its towering, fluffy pancake stacks. But next door, at its newly opened sibling venue, the signature dish is something altogether different: New Orleans-style beignets, deep-fried, heavily sugared and unapologetically messy.

The rest of the menu leans heavily into American comfort foods, with a selection of breakfast muffins, sandwiches, burgers and salads. Leading the sandwich line-up is the chopped cheese – a New York bodega staple – made with a Whole Beef Butchery burger patty, beef pastrami and American cheese, chopped together on the grill, and a fried chicken sandwich stacked with Cajun-spiced tenders.

Seating is outdoors on a fully covered terrace, designed to evoke an old school Los Angeles fast-food joint. Order from the service window, and help yourself to cold brew, iced match or homemade lemonade from the self-serve drinks station.

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Erina StarkeyErina StarkeyErina is the Good Food App Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously, Erina held a number of editing roles at delicious.com.au and writing roles at Broadsheet and Concrete Playground.

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