# Coffee in Brunswick Brunswick runs on small roasteries. Disciple and Kōhī no Deshi sit side by side on Black Street, one black-only and one milk-only, with Introspection a minute away on Wilson Avenue. ONA's café is a short walk north on Ovens Street, and Wood & Co, Wide Open Road and Project281 are a few blocks west and south. ## The shops 1. [ONA Coffee](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/ona-coffee-cafe-brunswick.md) (Brunswick · Must-try). Canberra roaster ONA opened this Brunswick café in 2020. Start with Raspberry Candy, the blend founder Saša Šestić used to win the 2015 World Barista Championship. The freezer menu holds more than 20 rare coffees, roasted, rested and frozen in single doses. The bright, minimal bar has separate stations for espresso, milk and filter, with batch brew, pour-over and cold brew on offer. Try the càscara if you want something other than coffee. 2. [Disciple Roasters](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/disciple-roasters.md) (Brunswick · Must-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. 3. [BENCH COFFEE CO. Lt Collins](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/bench-coffee-co-lt-collins.md) (CBD · Must-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. [Kōhī no deshi](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/kohi-no-deshi.md) (Brunswick · Must-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. 5. [Wood and Co Coffee](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/wood-and-co-coffee.md) (Brunswick · Must-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. 6. [Wide Open Road Coffee Roasters](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/wide-open-road-coffee-roasters.md) (Brunswick · Good). 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. 7. [Project 281 Coffee Roasters](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/project-281-coffee-roasters.md) (Brunswick · Good). 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. 8. [Introspection](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/introspection.md) (Brunswick · Good). Introspection is a small espresso bar on Wilson Avenue in Brunswick, a short walk from Disciple and Kōhī no Deshi on Black Street. It pours coffee from ONA, the Canberra roaster whose own Melbourne café is on Ovens Street, and opens every day from 7am to 3pm. It makes a good third stop on a Brunswick coffee walk. ## Sources - - [All coffee shops in Melbourne](https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne.md) --- [Good Coffee In](https://goodcoffeein.com/) · https://goodcoffeein.com/melbourne/n/brunswick