CafeSmart 2025 Cafes
CafeSmart is back for its 15th year, uniting cafes, baristas, and coffee lovers across the country to help end homelessness, one cup at a time. On August 8, $1 from every coffee sold at a participating cafe will be donated to grassroots organisations supporting people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in your local area.
It’s simple, impactful, and doesn’t cost you anything extra (though you can always chip in more in-store or online if you'd like). All you have to do is turn up, grab your usual, and know your coffee is doing more than waking you up - it’s helping someone doing it tough.
Support your local, shout a mate, or pay one forward. Just make sure your coffee counts. Find your nearest CafeSmart cafe here. With 800 cafes taking part nationwide, it’s easy to find a venue near you.
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Axil Coffee Roasters Bourke Street
The eighth outpost for Axil specialty coffee roasters – this time with full kitchen service.
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Axil Coffee Roasters Hawthorn
A cafe and roastery by a couple with serious coffee credentials, including an Australian barista championship.
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Axil Coffee Roasters Flinders Lane
Stylish, standing-room-only coffee from award-winning powerhouse Axil.
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Little Rebel Roastery
Finding good coffee in an unexpected place is always a rewarding experience. Case in point: Little Rebel Roastery, set in an industrial estate in Dromana. Come for the signature Black Sheep espresso blend, stick around for an oversized toastie in the rustic warehouse digs.
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Campos Coffee South Yarra
This cafe is the Victorian flagship of a NSW specialty coffee pioneer, and take inspiration from Euro espresso bars. Come for its signature blends and single origins, plus pastries by AM Bakehouse.
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Industry Beans Fitzroy
A white, bright successor to the famed Melbourne coffee roasters old flagship site down the street. Single origins and ground-breaking brunches still reign supreme, served within a skylit warehouse splashed with greenery.
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Three Blue Ducks
An all-day diner at Tullamarine’s surfable wave park from the popular cafe chain. Get spanner-crab scramble and a Bloody Mary for breakfast; pizzas, Portuguese-style chook and tomato-and-chilli mussels with garlicky Baker Bleu sourdough after midday; and non-alcoholic cocktails and beers pre-surf.
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Candied Bakery
A research trip to the US was the inspiration behind this Aussie bakery with a twist. Find pies in flavours such as key lime and bourbon pecan. Plus, European influences in its Russian honey cakes and tiramisu croissants.
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Market Lane Coffee Carlton
Market Lane Coffee partners with the local artisan baker in a classically Carlton coffee shop.
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Market Lane Coffee Prahran Market
Meet the flagship of one of Melbourne’s top coffee roasters, where education is key. Order its excellent coffee, pastries by Baker Bleu and sangas made with market-fresh produce. Plus, if you time it right, wait-worthy mushroom burgers.
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Market Lane Coffee South Melbourne
Cafe number six for one of the city’s favourite coffee roasters.
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Market Lane Coffee Brunswick
The Brunswick branch of one of Melbourne’s most-loved coffee roasters. Take in the warm, wood-panelled interiors with a cup of seasonal blend or single origin coffee, alongside pastries from Austro Bakery. There are also coffee beans, at-home brewing gear and ceramics to take home.
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Market Lane Coffee Collins Street
An elegant spot for lingering over a fine coffee.
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Market Lane Coffee Victoria Street
This iteration of the Market Lane cafe constellation brings the same winning combination: great coffee, quick-and-tasty snacks, plus plenty of beans and accessories to take home with you.
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Market Lane Coffee Queen Street
Enjoy one of Melbourne’s favourite coffee haunts in the historic Mercat Cross Hotel building at Queen Victoria Market. Go for high-quality espresso and filter coffee in the al fresco area, or take a bag of its beans to go.
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Earl Canteen
Say goodbye to soggy office sandwiches.
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Liminal
This sea of olive leather, grey velvet and art deco touches is not your everyday foyer cafe. On the menu: French flatbreads you can fold up like a taco, and salads with porchetta or rotisserie chicken.
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Moon Rabbit
Moon Rabbit supports its local community by selling jaffles, coffee and house-made slices.
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Industry Beans Lt. Collins
With an all-white fit-out and a sleek under-counter coffee machine, Industry Beans’s first satellite cafe sets forth with its own identity.
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Baker of Things
Hit Maker Coffee’s new bakery for blueberry heart-shaped yoyos, blackcurrant cream buns, and twisted baguettes with olives and anchovies.
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Matilda Mont Albert
A French-inspired cafe peddling cakes, sandwiches and homewares.
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Rustica South Yarra
This is the flagship of the beloved bakery chain. Get lobster and prawn Benedict for breakfast and a buttermilk fried chicken burger later on (not to mention Bloody Marys all day long).
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Maker Coffee Richmond
At this “cellar door” for coffee you can taste up to five single-origin brews in a single visit.
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Terror Twilight
All-day breakfasts and “feel-good” food.
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Padre Coffee Brunswick East
The Padre outlet that birthed a small empire.
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Padre Coffee South Melbourne Market
Your go-to coffee spot when you're doing the shopping.
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Allpress Espresso Roastery and Cafe
The New Zealand coffee company has expanded with its first Melbourne roastery and cafe in Collingwood.
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Square One Rialto
The ambitious cafe – by the hospo heavyweight behind Dessous, Hazel and Liminal – features a menu from 10 star chefs. Find cumin-lamb pancakes with chilli oil, a Portuguese pork sanga and an ube waffle with whipped Pepe Saya butter.
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Hi Fi
A takeaway-only deli serving hulking mortadella sandwiches; four-cheese toasties with French dip; and crispy, curly fries. These sangas also come with a soundtrack – an eclectic mix of vinyl spins behind the counter all day long.
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Ona Coffee
This Canberra-based coffee roaster has made a real name for itself on the east coast. Visit this outpost and you’ll understand why. At any time, there are at least 20 outstanding coffees listed on its “freezer menu”.
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Auction Rooms
This buzzing, industrial-chic spot is one of the area's most popular spots for brunch, for good reason. The coffee's great and the dishes – which aren't as revolutionary as they were when Auction Rooms first opened – are well-executed.
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St Ali & the Queen
A cafe by day and cocktail bar by night, from one of Melbourne’s top coffee roasters. Come early for brunch or later for coffee-spiked cocktails, Victorian wines and snacky plates (think roasted bone marrow on toast).
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Convoy
Located across from Queens Park, this expansive cafe goes beyond the rudimentary with its brekkie offering. And with 75 seats, it’s ideal for big groups.
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Ophelia
Need lunch, but don’t feel like going to a cafe or splashing out on a restaurant? Ophelia is the ultimate in-betweener. The European-ish menu is matched by a retro aesthetic, complete with a floor to ceiling record wall and vinyl spinning all day.
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Rumble Coffee Roasters
A red-brick coffee roastery where you can get your beans brewed or bagged, right where they’re roasted, by a team that’s all about sustainability and transparency. Plus, there are pistachio-and-raspberry blondies and flaky, cheesy croissants.
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Lady Bower
Fresh produce, great coffee and old English charm.
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Petite by Matilda
Behind arched windows and an egg blue facade, this cosy cafe serves six-inch cakes, toasties, chicken baguettes and salads. Nab a spot on the lawn out the front, or at one of its outdoor tables under a very-French umbrella.
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Moby
The owner of this sleek cafe trained directly under Yotam Ottolenghi, and the influence shows. There's a playful feel to many of the dishes (we love the prawn and leek omelette) and the servings are hearty. Plus, at lunchtime there's a killer range of wraps and sandwiches.
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One for the Crow
Plants on your plate and plants to take home for your lounge room.
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Three Bags Full
Abbotsford's first serious cafe, and still one of its best. Come for its seriously good coffee all-day brunch staples, like loaded smashed avocado and an eggs Benny spinoff.
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Tyler’s Milk Bar
Two sisters have revived the old-school neighbourhood milk bar, with an eccentric space that’s equal parts cafe and corner store. Find everything from pantry basics to nostalgic cafe fare like breakfast muffins, salad sandwiches and house-made sweets.
