Only great local cafes

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.

Please feel free to contribute your own recommendations - we will be setting up a contact email address as soon as we get a few extra minutes.