Best Coffee in Melbourne

Melbourne's roasters and baristas are some of the most accomplished, inventive and technical on earth. It seems with each passing month there’s a new brewing technique, new gadgets or a shift in the idea of what good coffee actually means. What we do, the rest of the world often follows

These are the cafes defining the future and, at the same time, giving us the basics at their very best. The only thing left for you to do is decide how you like your coffee.

Seven Seeds

Owners Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor helped usher in Melbourne's “Third Wave” coffee culture, and they’re still at the forefront of it.

114 Berkeley Street
Carlton VIC 3053

Plug Nickel

A rare chance to try roasts from Canberra's Ona Coffee.

7 Peel Street
Collingwood VIC 3066

Patricia

Now roasting its own coffee at Bureaux Collective.

Corner Little Bourke and Little William Streets
Melbourne VIC 3000

Market Lane Coffee Prahran Market

The first of six excellent Market Lane cafes.

Shop 13, Prahran Market 163 Commercial Road
South Yarra VIC 3141

Traveller

A tiny Seven Seeds outpost.

2/14 Crossley Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Maker Coffee

At this “cellar door” for coffee you can taste up to five single-origin brews in a single visit.

47 North Street
Richmond VIC 3121

St Ali

The mothership for a host of respected cafes and coffee brands, including Sensory Lab, Clement and Auction Rooms.

12-18 Yarra Place
South Melbourne VIC 3205

Wide Open Road

The flagship roastery for the duo behind Heartattack and Vine and Terror Twilight.

274 Barkly Street
Brunswick VIC 3056

Brother Baba Budan

Another Seven Seeds pillar.

359 Little Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Everyday Midtown

Everyday number two has the same panache.

213 Little Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Monk Bodhi Dharma

House-roasted single-origins served double-ristretto as standard.

Rear 202 Carlisle Street
Balaclava VIC 3183

Admiral Cheng-Ho

Monk Bodhi Dharma's sister site, packing six daily choices.

325 Johnston Street
Abbotsford VIC 3067

Bayano the Rebel

Vegan food and superb coffee from the team at Monk Bodhi Dharma and Admiral Cheng-Ho.

41 Ellis Street
South Yarra VIC 3141

Padre Coffee Brunswick East

Coffee sourced from up to 30 different estates all over the coffee-growing world, including less common regions such as Indonesia, roasted in house, then brewed with care. We can see why this one has blossomed to five locations.

438-440 Lygon Street
Brunswick East VIC 3057

Assembly Carlton

Where coffee and tea get equal respect.

60 Pelham Street
Carlton VIC 3053

Proud Mary

Featuring a custom six-group-head Synesso to limit cross-contamination between different coffees.

172 Oxford Street
Collingwood VIC 3066

Aunty Peg’s

Proud Mary's roastery is an experience in itself.

200 Wellington Street
Collingwood VIC

Stagger Lee’s

Another buzzing Proud Mary spot.

276 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy VIC

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Dukes Coffee Roasters

Coffee with an environmental conscience.

247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000

Omar and the Marvellous Coffee Bird

There's a reason these beans are stocked at cafes all over the south.

124 Gardenvale Road
Gardenvale VIC 3185

Axil Coffee Roasters

A cafe and roastery by a two champion baristas.

322 Burwood Road
Hawthorn VIC 3122

Axil Coffee Roasters CBD Espresso Bar

A more rapid-fire version of HQ.

76 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC

Mayday

Axil's Richmond offshoot.

410 Bridge Road
Richmond VIC 3121

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The Premises

Small Batch coffee pulled by two industry veterans.

202 Bellair Street
Kensington VIC

Noughts and Crosses

Another industry veteran working with Small Batch coffee. Bonus: on Filter Fridays batch brew is $2 all day.

32 Pin Oak Crescent
Flemington VIC 3031

Industry Beans

Choose from nine different coffees.

Warehouse 3 62 Rose Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065

Acoffee

A blindingly white warehouse where the coffee matches the purity of the fit-out.

30 Sackville Street
Collingwood VIC 3066

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