Simplicity is hard to find, but at Cafe Rosamond they’ve nailed it. This is a tiny one-point-five rooms worth of a cafe, huddled just off Smith Street in Fitzroy, and to the untrained eye it might not even rate a second glance. But that’s why we come back.

The menu is tight and easy with an all-day breakfast feel, while the small space cups you in the palm of its whitewashed, scuffed-tile surrounds. Pull up a classroom-style chair at a table for two, dangle your feet from tall stools at the bar, or wrangle a group into the corner booth next to the fireplace and let the world roll by. While you do, staff in the small, open kitchen are busy maneuvering around each other grilling sandwiches, plating cakes and frothing milk for your expertly brewed Small Batch coffee.

Thursday evenings from 7pm to 11pm at Rosamond bring a dessert-only menu with pastry chef extraordinaire Pierre Roelofs.