Lan Nhi’s guidebook
My favourite Cafés
There’s an unwritten rule of being Melbournian that you must love any meal served before midday and marked up by at least 60%. That's just city pride right there. If it comes with nuclear strength, coffee and some exposed brick and succulents, so much the better.
Thankfully, the dozens and dozens of cafés all over Melbs are more than a match for our breakfast cravings.
In the span of a few years, Kate has become Melbourne’s official croissant queen. Her temperature-controlled Fitzroy bakehouse produces some of the best croissants and French pastries in the world (according to a little rag known as the New York Times). There’s a reliable queue every single weekend.
The smell of fresh pastries wafted from the building down to the back of a long line along Rose St. The Fitzroy store has an incredible vibe to boost your day.
If you're not an early riser, good news, Lune's coffee service so efficient and perfectly-timed it's almost scary. One of the baristas take coffee orders from the queue to the pastry service counter and by the time you pick a croissant or cruffin and have it served to you warm from the oven, your coffee will be ready for your from the coffee country.
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Lune Croissanterie
119 Rose StIn the span of a few years, Kate has become Melbourne’s official croissant queen. Her temperature-controlled Fitzroy bakehouse produces some of the best croissants and French pastries in the world (according to a little rag known as the New York Times). There’s a reliable queue every single weekend.
The smell of fresh pastries wafted from the building down to the back of a long line along Rose St. The Fitzroy store has an incredible vibe to boost your day.
If you're not an early riser, good news, Lune's coffee service so efficient and perfectly-timed it's almost scary. One of the baristas take coffee orders from the queue to the pastry service counter and by the time you pick a croissant or cruffin and have it served to you warm from the oven, your coffee will be ready for your from the coffee country.
Set down the end of the CBD's Hardware Lane, The Hardware Societe is an escape from the bustle of the street. The interior is reminiscent of a cosy Parisian apartment; black flocked wallpaper offset by contemporary white furniture.
Classic French and Spanish dishes are served alongside brunch staples that have been given a European kick and the front counter is filled with sweet treats lined up like little jewels.
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The Hardware Société Melbourne
10 Katherine PlSet down the end of the CBD's Hardware Lane, The Hardware Societe is an escape from the bustle of the street. The interior is reminiscent of a cosy Parisian apartment; black flocked wallpaper offset by contemporary white furniture.
Classic French and Spanish dishes are served alongside brunch staples that have been given a European kick and the front counter is filled with sweet treats lined up like little jewels.
Higher Ground is hot. The big café-restaurant, from the team behind Top Paddock and Kettle Black, is incredibly ambitious.
With 130 seats across three levels, 16 chefs who can put Pope Joan, Supernormal and Jacques Reymond on their CVs, and a squad of smart, unflappable wait staff, Higher Ground is taking breakfast, lunch and dinner to vertiginous new heights.
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Higher Ground
650 Little Bourke StHigher Ground is hot. The big café-restaurant, from the team behind Top Paddock and Kettle Black, is incredibly ambitious.
With 130 seats across three levels, 16 chefs who can put Pope Joan, Supernormal and Jacques Reymond on their CVs, and a squad of smart, unflappable wait staff, Higher Ground is taking breakfast, lunch and dinner to vertiginous new heights.
Neighbouring Hardware Société on Hardware Lane, the luxe White Mojo is yet another café with ‘Instagram darling’ enshrined in its DNA. There’s the black bejewel-led cow’s head on the wall and the cool hexagon tiles and timber features, but make no mistake – you’re here for the café’s signature (and very photogenic) dish, Double cheese chili scrambled egg (Awards Winning dish) and Black (sesame) latte.
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White Mojo.
115 Hardware StNeighbouring Hardware Société on Hardware Lane, the luxe White Mojo is yet another café with ‘Instagram darling’ enshrined in its DNA. There’s the black bejewel-led cow’s head on the wall and the cool hexagon tiles and timber features, but make no mistake – you’re here for the café’s signature (and very photogenic) dish, Double cheese chili scrambled egg (Awards Winning dish) and Black (sesame) latte.