Kulata Academy Cafe

Friendly service with fresh sandwiches and salads. We ordered a chicken Caesar salad, coffee and a few croissants and everything tasted great. The service was fast and there is plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. Just watch out for the sneaky birds if you sit outside. Generous servings for the price, its value for money! The fridge and pie cabinet do run out of food towards lunch.

Kulata Cafe is a National Indigenous Training Academy for trainees to learn skills in hospitality. We were there on Thursday 20 November at 8am and whoever the male trainee serving was, he deserves to be recognised. 👏 So polite, friendly and engaging. He looked like he was so happy to be serving you! Thank you for your warm welcome. 🤗 The food offerings included: pies, croissants, muffins, bacon and egg rolls, sandwiches, fruit salad etc. indoor and outdoor seating available.

Good range of pies, pastries, sandwiches, rolls & salads. Decent coffee. Indoor & outdoor seating available. I love how this business supports the local community by training young people to enable them to gain employment in hospitality and catering industries.

This place has a variety of pies, sausage rolls, bread rolls with filling, muffins, crossaints and coffee. Gets super busy at lunch, not as bad in the morning as open from 9-2pm, plus they have the most affordable lunches ranging from $10-$15. Kids had sausage rolls (8/10) they were big and tasty.

Excellent food and staff! The pies were amazing! We took some pies to have for dinner - and 6 hours later, even though the pies were cold, they were delicious. All the young trainees are helpful. Special mention about the young lady who served us, Tikeyah Steele. Tikeyah was extremely sweet & helpful. Knows the menu, the contents of each food item and went out of her way to help each and every customer she served. Thank you to the manage/ trainer and a special thank you to Tikeyah.

A good cafe to eat at at the resort, still expensive but is a little tastier than the others. Half of the cabinet options were sold out at midday and were not being re-stocked so we just had to buy what was there. Pie was $11.50, wrap was $12 etc for the pricing. Still not amazing food so loses stars

Great place! The staff is very friendly and they have a big variety of options to choose from. I really enjoyed their iced latte, chocolate croissant and mushroom pie. So much that I went there on all days of my stay.

I wasn’t expecting a good coffee here. Outback and trainee baristas. How wrong was I!!! The coffee was amazing. Each sip I thought damn this is good!!! The service was good. The girls were a little distracted by some boys walking past but hey that’s youth. But kinda stood at the counter for longer than needed. When I was served the girl was very polite and had a great smile. Keep up the great work. Coffee was 23/10/25 afternoon. That barista should be working in Melbourne. She makes a perfect cup.

We bought meat pies, desserts and drink here - all scrumptious and of high quality. Staff have good customer service. Ambiance is typical of any Uluru restaurants - clean, quiet, & busy.

A more affordable option for this price inflated desert. I understand everything must be imported into this place, but some bites are worth the prices more than others. This place fits the bill where you can get decent sandwiches and the coffee is stellar. After our excursions it's the only place that's open in those odd hours of too late for breakfast and too early for lunch. What draws us to this place is the coffee. The beans are good and the baristas know how to brew the cup of joe for you. The staff are attentive and are eager apprentices for their hospitality training. A gem cafe in the outback.

We visited Kulata Academy Cafe several times while we were visiting Uluru/Ayers Rock. Each time we were pleased. Staff was friendly and helpful, coffee was excellent, and we really enjoyed their pastries as well as their breakfast sandwiches. Casual, quick-dining option...great options for breakfast or lunch and excellent, strong coffee. They offer shaded outdoor seating or AC indoors and the local work force is friendly and eager to learn...great mission driven company. Worth a visit...really enjoyed it!

There are 3 reasons to go to this care. Outdoor shaded seating. Coffee is decent. Local workers are employed. They use Drifters Coffee so the roast is decent and they know what they are doing or will remake it if it is not perfect. There are a lot of trainees working so it feels like there is a lot of energy and people that are eager to learn. They also do some baking so worth it to look and see what is freshly made. Of course if it is too hot you can be inside in air conditioning, but being outside is excellent and they are willing to open up umbrellas if you need some shade. Definitely worth a stop!

A decent place to grab a quick bite to eat in town centre. This is really the only cafe in the resort area. I had the salami sandwich, which was $9.50 AUD. It was toasted, but the filling was lacking. There was barely any brie cheese and an interesting relish on there that I was not expecting. Not a very satisfying sandwich, but as there really are no other places to get a sandwich and coffee this place must do.

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed the Pepper Steak Pie here - I think partially, because I love black pepper and this pie really captured that flavour well. P and I basically ate this every morning and though at times, they ran out of milk and P couldn't get any milkshakes here. People are friendly and service was good.

Great food, simple, tasty and affordable (for the area especially). Outside seating, pay first and they bring out to you.

The food in Yulara was mostly a big disappointment, and this was a welcome surprise. It also offered a much wider selection than the airport location. The staff were friendly. The flat white was good, and not too inflated in cost given that it's literally the only coffee shop for hundreds of miles. The local tomato scone was literally the best food item I had in Yulara--dense and probably filled with butter, crumbly, and they toasted it. It's a nice setting, with floor to ceiling Windows and a good spot on the town square. There's probably not quite enough seating, but they don't rush people out, which is nice. They also have a good mission, which is also nice. This location has a bunch of savory pies and milkshakes, unlike the airport branch.

This local social enterprise is a bustling cafe in the heart of Yulara. Providing training for indigenous kids you definitely should reward this place with your patronage. The many happy visitors was a good sign on arriving and the coffee did not disappoint. Great kids and great coffee! The outdoor seating looking across the market square is also a very pleasant spot to take a break.

Wonderful environment to sit and eat something Although it is pretty sad that at 3pm there is hardly any food to buy. There were a lot of people looking for food The attitude of the staff behind the counter was somewhat sullen in contrast to the cheery guy who placed the food on the table

Lovely Cafe Friendly helpful staff. Had breakfast and lunch at this little cafe. Breakfast coffee cold and not well made probably because the girl was training and overwhelmed with the orders and no help! Food really good ordered an iced coffee but hey added vanilla syrup, took it back and very quickly the brought us another, no problem. I believe this is a training restaurant and generally is really good!

This place is value for money! For 7.50 you get a choice of bread, meat, as many salads as you'd like and a great range of sauces. I had my usual latte which was good not the best coffee I have ever had but by no means was it below average. I'm not sure how significant coffee art work is to flavour but I had a lovely heart on mine. The sandwich I created I used a fresh focaccia loaf filled with chicken a garlic and aioli as all the salads under the sun. All the ingredients were fresh and tasty, it was a delicious sandwich that resembled a modern cafe delight. If you're up staying in Yulara this is by far one of the best lunch options around.

Had a good, reasonably priced sandwich sandwich and cookie for lunch here. Service was friendly and quick.

Busy place to grab a coffee. I had one both at the resort and airport location as well as sandwich's which were both pretty good. Friendly staff

We went here twice because it was such a great value. Subway style sandwiches (they fix how you want it) for only $7!! Their breakfast is $6. I wish I they were open later for dinner. No wonder there is a line because it is good food at an amazing Australian and Resort price. Wow. And the servers are way nicer than the other restaurants on resort. Eat here.