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Melbourne roasters
These cafés roast their own coffee, on site or at their own roastery. The range runs from one-person garages such as Blume to big operations such as Padre and Small Batch, and from Disciple's black-only cellar door to Maker's single origins. Most sell the beans they pour.
The shops
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No. 1
Proud Mary Coffee
CollingwoodMust-try
Proud Mary opened off Smith Street in 2009 and roasts all its coffee a block away, at its Aunty Peg's roastery. It was one of the first Melbourne cafés to brew its blends and single origins on V60, AeroPress and cold drip, and those methods are still on the menu. It ranked fourth on the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list in 2025 and 27th in 2026. Expect a queue, a bright warehouse room and a kitchen that runs until mid-afternoon.
172 Oxford St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 2
Aunty Peg's
CollingwoodMust-try
Aunty Peg's is Proud Mary's roastery, opened in 2014, with a coffee bar at the front. At the brew bar a barista serves you one to one, talks you through the coffees and may offer a taste or a smell before you choose. The list runs to champion roasts and rare Geisha lots, and the nitro cold brew comes in a beer glass. It is also a training space and a shop for beans and brewing gear, a short walk from the Proud Mary café.
200 Wellington St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 3
Seven Seeds Coffee Roasters
CarltonMust-try
Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor turned an old Carlton warehouse into a roastery and café after selling St Ali in 2008. They pushed traceable beans and lighter roasts for filter and cold drip when Melbourne still drank dark espresso. Roasting moved to Fairfield in 2017, but the Carlton room still pours the Golden Gate blend and a rotating single origin brewed the way you ask. It ranked 87th on the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list in 2025. Expect a wait for a table.
114 Berkeley St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
No. 4
Patricia Coffee Brewers
CBD+1 locationMust-try
Patricia has served coffee from a standing-room-only corner of Little Bourke and Little William streets since 2011. The menu is three words long: white, black or filter. All the coffee now comes from its own roastery in Coburg North, and the house espresso and filter change with the season. There are no tables, only a marble bar, brass hooks and a queue out the door most mornings. A second Patricia bar works on Lonsdale Street.
Rear of, 493-495 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 5
Disciple Roasters
BrunswickMust-try
Marwin Shaw, who opened Monk Bodhi Dharma in 2009, sold his cafés to focus on roasting and calls this backstreet warehouse a coffee cellar door. Every cup is served black: eight to ten espressos a day and pour-overs that run from everyday cups to very rare lots. There is no milk of any kind and no disposable cup, so bring your own or drink in from the ceramic mugs Shaw makes by hand. Beans, mugs and brewing gear are for sale.
16 Black St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
No. 6
ACOFFEE
Collingwood+1 locationMust-try
Acoffee roasts in a converted Collingwood garage painted so white it looks more like a tech store than a café. Co-owner and coffee director Byoung-Woo Kang, Australia's 2014 cup tasting champion and a former Market Lane roaster, roasts lighter than is usual to keep each coffee bright and clear. The espresso machine sits on a long island bench, and filter roasts and drip bags are on the shelf to take home. A second Acoffee works on Russell Street in the CBD.
30 Sackville St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 7
Small Batch Roasting Co.
North MelbourneMust-try
Small Batch roasts behind a set of garage doors on a North Melbourne side street. It was started by Andrew Kelly, who first opened Auction Rooms, and the team judges every coffee on three things: it must taste great, have a positive social impact and support sustainable agriculture. The warehouse café bakes its own pastries and sells local produce next to the beans. Its coffee also turns up across the city, for example as the Candyman house blend at Little Rogue.
3-9 Little Howard St, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia
No. 8
Everyday Coffee
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.
36-38 Sackville St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 9
Vacation Coffee CBD
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.
1 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 10
Dukes Coffee Roasters
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.
247 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 11
Padre Coffee Brunswick East
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.
438 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
No. 12
MAKER Richmond
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.
47 North St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia
No. 13
BENCH COFFEE CO. Lt Collins
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.
321 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 14
Core Roasters
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.
14 Barkly St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
No. 15
BLUME COFFEE
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.
2 Yarra St, Abbotsford VIC 3067, Australia
No. 16
Wood and Co Coffee
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.
369 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
No. 17
Rumble Coffee Roasters
KensingtonMust-try
Rumble has supplied Melbourne cafés for years from its Kensington roastery, and its Transparency Project publishes how much growers are paid for their coffee. To drink it, go to the espresso bar on Macaulay Road, a few minutes from the roastery: it pours the house blends and rotating single origins on both filter and espresso, and sells beans and brewing gear to take home. Pastries come from Rumble's own Double Dutch bakery. It opens on weekdays only, from 7am to 2pm.
348 Macaulay Rd, Kensington VIC 3031, Australia
No. 18
INI Studio
CarltonMust-try
INI Studio hides in a small Queensberry Street garage painted white and furnished with white cubes, with a photo studio upstairs. The team roasts its own coffee and pours a short list of filter brews and espresso, but the experimental drinks are the reason to come. Try the iced citrus long black, made with lemon slices and grated rind, or the cream iced latte. The croffles, part croissant and part waffle, are the favourite snack, and the tiramisu uses the house coffee.
225 Queensberry St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
No. 19
Project Zero Coffee Meriton Suites
CBD+1 locationMust-try
Kirk Pearson opened Project Zero in the CBD in 2023, below the Meriton Suites on King Street, and added a second shop on Flinders Street. It roasts its own coffee: fruit-forward house blends such as Strawberry Cheesecake, plus single origins for filter and espresso. In 2026 Pearson moved the milk drinks, most of the business, to espresso pulled ahead of service, a change Broadsheet covered at length; black coffees are still brewed to order from rare releases. Pearson also hosts the Coffee Show podcast.
Store 1/140 King St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 20
Omar And The Marvellous Coffee Bird
GardenvaleMust-try
Founders Dean Atkins and Andy Gelman roast at this Gardenvale café and say they will only serve coffee at its best. The beans come with their full story: one recent lot is a washed SL28 and SL34 from Uganda's Bunyangabu station, fermented for about 40 hours with a lick of lake salt. The café is open daily with food, and the team has opened Next Door, a space for learning about coffee. Beans ship around Australia.
124 Gardenvale Rd, Gardenvale VIC 3185, Australia
No. 21
Wide Open Road Coffee Roasters
BrunswickGood
Wide Open Road roasts its own coffee in a big industrial room on Barkly Street, with its own cupping room and green-bean store behind the café. The Bathysphere blend mixes beans from Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia and Kenya and works well with milk, and the filter roasts are served as batch brew or pour-over. It is one of Brunswick's busiest cafés, with booths, comfortable chairs and an adventurous food menu, and tea is brewed with thermometers and timers.
274 Barkly St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
No. 22
Monk Bodhi Dharma
BalaclavaGood
Monk Bodhi Dharma sits in a tiny brick building behind Carlisle Street that may once have been a bakehouse. It roasts its coffee in-house, mostly single-estate lots bought direct, and the baristas will help you pick one that suits your taste. The menu is fully vegetarian, without even eggs, with dishes such as a porridge with stewed berries and a spiced bircher. Diners share an old workbench or sit at converted Singer sewing tables.
Rear, 202 Carlisle St, Balaclava VIC 3183, Australia
No. 23
Project 281 Coffee Roasters
BrunswickGood
Project281 fills a former printing warehouse off Albert Street with towering walls of one-tonne concrete drainage pits, each overflowing with plants. There are 97 seats across the ground floor and a mezzanine, around a big coffee bar and kitchen with exposed-aggregate counters and black steel lace chandeliers. It roasts its coffee on site and serves a Japanese-leaning menu, including a set menu. Come for the room and a coffee from the house roast.
279-281 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
No. 24
Rosso Coffee Experience
North Melbourne+1 locationGood
Rosso roasts its coffee on site in North Melbourne and built this café as a place to taste, sit and learn. House blends and single origins come from beans sourced around the world, the kitchen is run by chefs, and free hands-on tasting sessions are part of the programme. Rosso also runs an espresso bar on Collins Street in the CBD for a quicker cup.
117 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia
No. 25
Growers Espresso
Fitzroy NorthGood
Growers Espresso is the roastery, shop and espresso bar of Eureka Coffee, set up in North Fitzroy in 2005 after years of roasting Australian-grown coffee. The range now spans imported specialty coffees chosen to show particular origins, processes and cultivars, with separate roasts for filter and a seasonal espresso blend. The team runs regular open cuppings, training and free tastings for visitors.
332/334 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC 3068, Australia
No. 26
Elle Coffee
CarnegieGood
Elle is a small specialty roastery with a café in Carnegie. Its roaster, Derek, is a certified Q Arabica Grader with more than twelve years in coffee, and he tailors a roast profile to each lot rather than one house style. The range covers seasonal single origins, espresso blends, filter coffees and decaf, roasted with espresso, pour-over, French press and AeroPress in mind. Buy a bag after your cup.
Shop 1/14-22 Woorayl St, Carnegie VIC 3163, Australia
No. 27
Todo Good Coffee
NorthcoteGood
Todo Good roasts Colombian coffee in Melbourne, run by Colombian couple Carolina and Santiago, and this Northcote café carries the brand's name. The list is short on purpose: three single origins, one espresso roast, one filter roast and a decaf, recently from Huila. Every twelve weeks or so they choose a new lot and roast it weekly, so the coffee is always fresh. Bags are for sale to brew at home.
1a Timmins St, Northcote VIC 3070, Australia
No. 28
Ageyo Coffee
CollingwoodGood
Ageyo is a Collingwood coffee company with roots in Ethiopia, and that culture runs through the cups and plates it serves. It roasts sustainable, traceable beans in small batches and sells them with brewing gear chosen by the team. The Easey Street café is a place to sit back or chat, open on weekdays and Saturdays, and the space can also be booked for events.
25 Easey St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
No. 29
Niccolo Coffee
CremorneGood
Niccolo is a Melbourne roaster that supplies cafés, restaurants and offices, and its Cremorne headquarters on Stephenson Street has a weekday coffee bar. The signature blend is roasted from carefully sourced specialty coffee, and seasonal single origins rotate beside it. Stop in for a coffee and a bag of beans when you are walking the Cremorne back streets, where Vacation also has a café.
57-59 Stephenson St, Cremorne VIC 3121, Australia
No. 30
Crimson Coffee
Camberwell+1 locationGood
Crimson sources seasonal coffees that score above 80 points and roasts them in small batches on a Diedrich, testing each roast before it goes out. The lots come with their details: a recent filter coffee was a washed Ayla Bombe from Sidama, Ethiopia, grown by 725 smallholders at about 2,000 metres. The Camberwell café is on Burke Road, and a second Crimson café works on Elizabeth Street in the CBD.
716 Burke Rd, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia
No. 31
El Parche Coffee Roasters
CoburgGood
El Parche is a Coburg roaster that focuses on coffee from Latin America, and its Women in Coffee range showcases beans from female producers. Single origins from countries such as Colombia and Costa Rica sit next to espresso and filter roasts, and the team shares brewing guides for home. Drop into the Harding Street roastery for a cup and a bag to take away.
109 Harding St, Coburg VIC 3058, Australia
No. 32
Sow Coffee Moonee Ponds
Moonee PondsGood
Sow Coffee Project began in 2019 as an online blog by Charlie Wade and grew into a community-focused coffee business that roasts, retails and wholesales. It roasts at Guesthouse, a shared roastery in Coburg North, and buys through import partners with close links at origin. The Moonee Ponds café pours the house coffees, including the Neighbourhood Blend, and regulars write about the warmth Charlie and Bessie bring to the bar.
5 Norwood Cres, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039, Australia
No. 33
Penny Docklands
DocklandsGood
Penny is a takeaway window in The District at Newquay, Docklands, run by Constance Coffee, which roasts traceable specialty coffee and makes its own drinking chocolate. The coffee menu rotates, with a curated selection of teas and sourdough from a good bakery to go with it. It opens early on weekdays and closes around lunchtime, so come in the morning.
442 Docklands Dr, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia
No. 34
Tribu Coffee
Port MelbourneGood
Tribu is a Port Melbourne roaster run by Colombians who wanted to honour their coffee heritage. It roasts only specialty-grade beans in small batches, and the green coffee on hand comes from Colombia, Brazil, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mexico. The range covers espresso, filter and milk-based roasts, and the café on Rouse Street is the place to taste them before buying a bag.
217 Rouse St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207, Australia
No. 35
The Coffee Company
BalaclavaGood
The Coffee Company has hand-roasted coffee on Carlisle Street since 1969, and the smell of the roaster still fills the street. The family-run store roasts specialty beans every day and stocks more than 50 single-origin, blended and green coffees, plus over a hundred loose-leaf teas under its Carlisle Tea label. Come for a coffee and advice on what to brew at home.
260 Carlisle St, Balaclava VIC 3183, Australia
No. 36
Otherside Coffee
CBD+1 locationGood
Otherside roasts its own coffee, led by the Little Temperance blend, a bold, complex espresso with bright acidity. The Little Collins Street café in the CBD opens every day from early morning, and the team publishes brew guides for AeroPress, V60 and Moccamaster if you take beans home. A second Otherside café is in North Melbourne.
Shop 3/188 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 37
Ciscos Coffee
WindsorGood
Ciscos roasts small-batch coffee on Chapel Street in Windsor and draws on more than 60 years of roasting expertise. The shop has shelves of fresh-roasted beans and brewing gear, and limited single origins such as a Costa Rica honey natural sit beside the house blends. Have a coffee at the counter and ask which beans suit your method.
106 Chapel St, Windsor VIC 3181, Australia
No. 38
Quists Coffee
CBDGood
Quists calls itself Melbourne's original coffee roaster, a family-owned, Australian-run business that imports beans from around the world and roasts them locally. The range runs from blends to a specialty line and single origins, and the Little Collins Street café is the place to drink them in the city. It is a slice of Melbourne coffee history a few steps from the newer specialty bars.
166 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
No. 39
Hillbilly Coffee Roasters
Port MelbourneGood
Hillbilly has roasted coffee in Melbourne for more than 24 years, using Northern Italian roasting techniques to bring out each origin in its blends. Beans are roasted after you order rather than weeks ahead, and the Port Melbourne roastery on Graham Street also runs a small coffee snack bar. Come for a classic, full-bodied espresso and a bag of fresh beans.
425 Graham St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207, Australia
No. 40
Philoçoffee Espresso Bar
South MelbourneGood
Philoçoffee opened on Albert Road in South Melbourne in 2014 and is now one of the street's longest-running cafés. It roasts the coffee it serves, and the other half of the name is gourmet sandwiches, made every day on freshly delivered bread. It is a good stop near Albert Park Lake for an espresso and a proper sandwich.
162 Albert Rd, South Melbourne VIC 3205, Australia
No. 41
Delilah
WindsorGood
Delilah is a cosy café on Chapel Street, across the road from Windsor Station. It serves its own home-roasted coffee with bagels and sandwiches, and opens from 6am on weekdays, early enough for a coffee before the train. It is a small, friendly stop for a coffee and a bagel.
38A Chapel St, Windsor VIC 3181, Australia
No. 42
Roasting Warehouse
North MelbourneGood
Roasting Warehouse is a Melbourne specialty roaster that supplies businesses and sells freshly roasted coffee to drink at home. Its North Melbourne café on Leveson Street pours the house blends and single origins, and the team shares guides for AeroPress and filter brewing. Bags, pods and brewing equipment are on sale if you want to take the coffee with you.
19-21 Leveson St, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia
No. 43
Cru+ Coffee Roastery
Hawthorn EastGood
Cru+ is a coffee roastery with a café on Tooronga Road in Hawthorn East, where the team sources, roasts and serves its own specialty coffee. The house 399 Seasonal Select changes through the year, single origins such as Las Hortensias sit beside it, and an Atelier Series showcases special lots. The café also has an event space, and beans are for sale to take home.
399 Tooronga Rd, Hawthorn East VIC 3123, Australia
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