Tinto Espresso Bar is a local Lake Macquarie family cafe, operated by husband and wife team Adam and Natasha MacKenzie with other family members as staff.

"We offer the freshest coffee on the lake and prepare the tastiest locally sourced produce to my loyal regular customers and visitors," said Adam, who used to be the chef at Burwood Bowling Club.

"I was looking for an opportunity to allow me to spend more time with the kids and have a better work-life balance.

"When the opportunity came up with this stunning location and opportunity to do my own coffee roasting. I grabbed it."

Tinto Espresso Bar is open on Mother's Day and will be offering their fantastic menu including breakfast all day.

Enjoy the view and maybe spy a dolphin or watch the sailboats on beautiful Lake Macquarie. Bring the kids along we are adjacent to the kids playground and swimming baths great place for the whole family.

Chef and owner Matthew Walkom has been in hospitality for 25 years and is passionate about catering.

Combining food van with cafe, he now serves the local culinary community.

"I love being able to create a menu to suit the client and enhance an event or function," Matthew said.

"The cafe is open from 6am to 2pm Monday to Friday and our catering services are available 7 days a week at a time to suit you."

The cafe menu features all-day breakfast and burgers, and caters to vegan and gluten-free clients with menu choices being able to be tailored to their requirements.

"Our in-house made cakes, biscuits and slices are delicious and go so well with our premium coffee," Matthew said. "The bean is from one of Australia's largest coffee roasters, Veneziano, Estate Blend."

Toronto Hotel has a new chef and a new team cooking up an exciting new fusion of flavours sure to delight.

Sri Lankan born chef Mahinda Wickramasekera has always had a passion for food and hospitality. Growing up in Sri Lanka where 'food is the focus of life', his family would plan the entire day's menu, go out to buy what they needed and come back home, cooking from scratch, no preservatives or additives.

In Australia he continues that celebration of flavours and loves bring communities together around food.

"I particularly enjoy modern Australian and fine dining," Mahinda said."Our current menu consists of many local favourites, with weekly specials featuring some of the new dishes planned for the new menu, plus many of our most popular options. So no matter what evening you come, bring the family and enjoy a great night out."

For a little bit of Italy on the lake, try Casa-nova Italian Restaurant and Bar.

With its unique location right on the water, with great views, very relaxed and convenient, Casa-nova is the perfect place for chef Chakra Ghimire to showcase his Italian cooking expertise.

"We are fully licensed and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week with full coffee and bar service including craft and tap beer, local and international wines and an extensive cocktail/mocktail list," Ghimire said.

"All our pastas at Casa-nova are cooked from scratch. We make our own ravioli, gnochi and so forth and have veal saltimbocca as well as a range of Italian food, tapas, wine bar, seafood, steak, ribs plus hot and cold beverages with full barista service."