This is the second outpost for Melbourne coffee institution Patricia. After 15 years on Little William Street, this roomier site opened on Lonsdale Street. In it, only pour-over coffee has been added, proving good hospitality is timeless.

The second cafe gives visitors more room to move. Patricia Lonsdale keeps a familiar bar-style layout, but adds an adjoining room designed to feel a little like standing around a kitchen bench. It’s recognisably Patricia, though less compressed, with the kind of warmth that suits a longer pause rather than a quick in-and-out coffee run between meetings.

The larger space has also brought back single-serve pour-over coffee, which disappeared from the original site in the early days. Little William Street still focuses on batch-brewed filter, but Lonsdale Street can showcase other coffees one cup at a time.

The fit-out comes from Hecker Guthrie, led by Samuel McIntyre, a former Patricia staff member. Builders Westmark Building Group, alongside Andy Ryan and Illogical Study on joinery and fabrication, helped shape the heritage-listed space around the peculiar character of the old building.