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Exploration Lane, (a teensy little street between Latrobe and Little Lonsdale St) in the CBD was among the first “red light” districts in the embryonic city of Melbourne in the 1850’s….  an interesting fact to ponder as you sip your coffee at the brilliantly named “League of Honest Coffee” at 8 Exploration Lane. Our new [...]

If your slightly obsessive commitment to your daily caffeine ritual nudges the religious, then you might want to partake of some pastoral care, compliments of one of our fave Melbourne resources –Broadsheet.  During the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (the first two weeks of March), Broadsheet is hosting the Broadsheet Cafe on Crossley Street.  This is [...]

In a city where the caffeine gods receive loud and boysterous praise, the local coffee-cognoscenti rarely get all swoony and sweaty-palmed at the opening of a ‘yet another cafe’. A new Fitzroy establishment in Gertrude Street however, has brought about heart palpitations and heavy breathing en mass.  And yes, you can believe the hype.  This [...]

56 Nicholson Street Abbotsford We are caffeine fiends at Apartment Alkira.  No news there.  What I can’t believe is how long it’s taken us to discover yet another hidden Melbourne caffeine dealer.  Tucked away just past the faux grunge of Fitzroy in a wee Abbotsford side street lies Three Bags Full – and full they [...]

Ground Level CAE Building 253-265 Flinders Lane Melbourne With its home in the foyer of the Melbourne’s CAE and new(ish) CBD City Library, The Journal finds itself aptly named. The coffee won’t blow your socks off, but it’s a fab vibe and perfectly decent blend (as long as you don’t get the english girl who [...]

23 Degraves St, Melbourne Degraves Espresso Bar was the original glint in the eye of Melbourne’s Grand Pa Pa of Cafe Culture, Con Christopoulos many moons ago. This was way before Melbourne grew itself a name for sneaky laneways and serious ‘tude about its caffeine scene.  Things have moved on a little since then and [...]

These are among our absolute favs for a bite of something yummy and a decent coffee. Click on the blue bubbles below for details. View Best CBD Cafes (Recommended by Apartment Alkira in a larger map

There’s no better place for coffee in Melbourne’s CBD than this very cool ‘hole in the wall’ on Little Bourke Street. With barely more than a dozen seats, it’s a drink and run sort of spot. Brother Baba Budan website 359 Little Bourke Street Melbourne 3000 Telephone +613 9606 0449

Vue de Monde is undeniably one of Melbourne’s *starlet* eateries, but if you can’t get in, or don’t want to part with the requisite *starlet* pennies, Café Vue will give you an inexpensive way to hover in the glow of the Vue de Monde halo.  Open for brekky and lunch Monday to Friday, it’s worth [...]

360 Lt Collins St Melbourne The in house pastries in this bakery-cum-cafe are so light they’d barely do a dint of damage to the hips.  No really.  Flakey and ethereal, teamed with a robust Romcaffe latte, they make a suberb start to a morning in Melbourne.  Gill’s diner and commercial bakery is quite the find.  Fabulous [...]