No. 1111
Collingwood+1 locationMust-try
Everyday opened in 2013 pouring beans from other Melbourne roasters, and since 2019 it has roasted its own at the back of this vast red-brick warehouse in Collingwood. Espresso and filter both come from the house roasts, and every coffee arrives with a glass of sparkling water. The menu is mostly bagels, with cinnamon scrolls in the cabinet, and local DJs play on the sound system. As the name says, it trades every day of the year. Its smaller CBD sibling, Everyday Midtown, is on Little Collins Street.
4.5 rating · 403 reviews
36-38 Sackville St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 1212
CBD+2 locationsMust-try
Vacation is a ten-seat café on the corner of Flinders and Exhibition streets, where the Sahely brothers uncovered the windows and restored an eight-metre ceiling. The fit-out is mid-century and eighties pastel: mint-green teak seats and pale-pink steel benches. The team roasts its own coffee and sells it by the cup and by the bag, with single origins on filter and batch brew. It ranked 71st on the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list in 2025 and 100th in 2026. There are also Vacation cafés in Richmond and Cremorne.
4.6 rating · 666 reviews
1 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 1313
CBDMust-try
Dukes roasts mostly organic coffees bought from small farms and cooperatives across Africa, Asia and the Americas, with each lot traceable to where it was grown. This small café in Ross House, a community-owned building on Flinders Lane, is the best place to try the latest single origins, brewed as espresso, filter or French press. The fit-out by Chris Connell uses reclaimed timber, recycled tiles and green trim, and there are only a few seats. Order a pour-over with a pastry and perch at the counter.
4.6 rating · 1,626 reviews
247 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 1414
Brunswick East+1 locationMust-try
Padre has roasted coffee in Brunswick East since 2008, and this big Lygon Street café sits next to the roastery. It buys from estates around the world, including less common origins in Indonesia and India, and the experimental blends and filter brews change with the season. Ask the staff: they will walk you through a coffee from farm to cup. Padre also runs brewing courses, and its small stall at South Melbourne Market carries up to a dozen coffees to drink or take home.
4.5 rating · 337 reviews
438 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
No. 1515
Richmond+1 locationMust-try
Stephanie and John Vroom, both coffee industry veterans, do not believe in blends. Their roastery, Maker, serves only single origins, up to five at a time, to show they can be as versatile as any blend. The Richmond café is the roastery's home, with the widest choice of espresso and filter, pastries and cakes, and roasters you can ask about what they are working on. Smaller Maker bars pour the same coffees in the CBD, South Yarra and Prahran.
4.8 rating · 311 reviews
47 North St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia
No. 1616
CBD+3 locationsMust-try
Bench is a boutique roaster with its own flagship on Little Collins Street, an angular black-and-white corner bar designed by Arkhe Tekhne. Half the room is the statement bench, built on glass blocks. The coffee menu is short: the basics plus hot and iced filter, cold brew and an espresso tonic, with beans to take home. The only food is dacquoise in flavours such as Uji matcha and black sesame. Bench roasts in Brunswick, where the roastery shares space with a bakery kitchen, and runs two more bars on St Kilda Road.
4.5 rating · 663 reviews
321 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 1717
BrunswickMust-try
Kōhī no Deshi, Japanese for disciple coffee, is the milk-loving twin of Disciple Roasters next door. Marwin Shaw opened it in December 2023 to serve only milk drinks, with six grinders, four blends and eleven dairy and plant milks, each pairing worked out for the coffee in the cup. The ceramics are his, shaped to hold exact ratios of coffee and milk. Try the affogato: an anaerobic Ethiopian espresso poured over vanilla ice cream from Sundae School.
4.9 rating · 134 reviews
18 Black St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
No. 1818
Brunswick EastMust-try
Behind a roller door and a forest-green facade, Core Roasters has a long coffee bar, a glassed-in pastry kitchen and a 15-kilogram Roastmax roaster at the back. Co-owner Michael Allen, formerly of Small Batch, pulls espresso on three Decent machines, built to mimic anything from a vintage lever to a modern La Marzocco. Dani Sunario's baking leans on her Southeast Asian heritage: kaya toast, char siu pork tarts, rendang pasties and an espresso banana bread.
4.5 rating · 258 reviews
14 Barkly St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
No. 1919
AbbotsfordMust-try
Blume is a one-person roastery in a converted Abbotsford garage, run by Angus Gibbs. He sources green beans from ethical suppliers for two seasonal blends: Sunshine, a light, bright modern roast for black or white coffee, and Moonlight, a darker Italian-style roast for milk. A few single origins rotate alongside. Most people take away, but you can sit at one of two benches and listen to whatever is on the record player. Beans and merch are on the shelf.
4.7 rating · 81 reviews
2 Yarra St, Abbotsford VIC 3067, Australia
No. 2020
BrunswickMust-try
Aaron Wood started roasting in his backyard in 2015 for friends who ran cafés, and opened this Albert Street shopfront in 2019. Today it is a roastery, wholesaler and coffee bar with a coffee-only menu: single-origin and blended espresso and filter, plus cans of cold brew. The Twin Peaks blend mixes Ethiopian and Colombian beans for toffee and mandarin notes, and single origins change every four to six weeks. From the few seats you can watch the team roast.
4.9 rating · 59 reviews
369 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
