The objective of this site is to provide alternatives to the bland and expensive coffee chain stores that seem to be proliferating at an incredible rate across Melbourne. We believe that the everyday Melbournian is desperately seeking out a local cafe that provides exceptional quality coffee at a reasonable price. With this objective in mind we hope to review and recommend a number of cafes in and around greater Melbourne; please feel free to contribute!
If you manage to get a seat in this groovy cafe, you are destined for a good coffee. Although coffee is not the only popular item in this place - a regular haunt of Hawthorn footballers, the breakfast and lunchtime offerings are well worth consideration. Cafe Vamp serves Coffex coffee, with our standard flat white sample returning with good, smooth milk and a nice taste. Cafe Vamp is located at 727 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn.
After sampling coffee at their first cafe several years ago, there was little doubt that the duo that run Ludo would not succeed in replicating their success. This little cafe is on Queen Street, near the corner of Little Collins St (118 Queen St to be exact!). The coffee is the same consistently good standard, with their machine utilising the great flavour of Illy coffee. We also recommend the great soups and other eats that this cafe has - the larger size of their new place makes sure that you can enjoy lunch in a funky looking environment. Our favs are the Portugese tarts and the tasty soups during the winter months.
We at "cafes in melbourne" see this site as a long overdue response to the rapidly expanding number of bland, generic coffee stores that seem to be appearing all across Melbourne and surrounding suburbs. We are not setting out to denounce these coffee stores, instead will attempt to highlight the large number of alternatives that do exist; local cafes that offer a better, cheaper and friendlier environment in which to enjoy your next espresso, latte or flat white. We will only publish reviews of cafes that we deem as great places to have a coffee. This could be for a number of reasons, and we realise that rating cafes is incredibly subjetive, however we will endeavour to ensure that all the cafes highlighted on our site have one thing in common - consistently great coffee.
