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The Idiot’s Guide to Coffee
The oldest coffee roasters in Australia, Griffiths Bros are the go-to source not just for coffee beans and blends, but also equipment and…
Bed Sheets Made From Coffee Exist IRL
As if we needed an excuse to bring more coffee into our lives.
Here’s Where To Grab Yourself Free Coffee And Tostadas
Stroll down Southbank and grab yourself a free coffee and toastie to-go.
Keep Up Your Coffee Standards With 7 Of The Best Delivery Services
If you’re buying a coffee every day, then chances are you’re forking out something like $1,460 a year for a daily hit of…
Coffee In A Doughnut Exists And All Bets Are Off
If there are two things that’ll make us get out of bed on any given morning, it’s coffee and doughnuts.
Where To Get Melbourne’s Best Cold Coffee
It's no secret Melbourne is King when it comes to coffee. Frothy capps, creamy lattes and nuclear-strength espressos are the basic…
Win An Espresso Machine + Six Months’ Coffee!
Melbourne’s a city built on our love of coffee, so it’s no wonder we’re peeing-our-pants excited about this epic prize…
Opening Soon | Ebenezer Coffee & Wine Bar
Frustrated Melbourne’s obsession with great cafes ended at Bayside’s beaches, Duncan Thomson decided to open Ebenezer Coffee…
Melbourne’s Best Coffee Without The Queue
We’ve teamed up with Hey You and Visa Checkout (who also hate cold coffee and long lines) to hunt down the best of best coffee in…
Who Makes The Best Coffee In Melbourne?
We’re calling on all our sweet caffeine-lovin’ followers to give us the scoop on your most trusted coffee spots.
Win a Year of Free Coffee!
Thanks to Griffiths Bros, one lucky Urban List reader has the chance to win A YEAR’S WORTH OF COFFEE! Yep, that’s 12…
Your Reusable Coffee Cup Just Got A Very Sexy Upgrade
It’s been a while since the humble reusable coffee cup got an upgrade beyond colours (and trust us, we have plenty of funky colours).…
7 Things You Can Do With Coffee That You Never Imagined
If Australia had a national drink—it would be coffee (beer is trailing lets be honest).
Stock Up, Melbourne Just Got Its First Specialty Coffee Vending Machine Thanks To Market Lane
Market Lane’s coffee bean vending machine is the first of its kind in Melbourne, and it’s stocked with the essentials like…
Want To Try Coffee Caviar? Here’s Where To Get It This Week
Just when you thought we had reached the pinnacle of coffee related things, internationally renowned chef Ferran Adrià brings coffee…
Coffee Flour Is The Invention You’ve Been Waiting For
Coffee is so essential in our lives it’s kind of scary. It’s safe to assume that when we heard coffee-baked goods are on the way…
Francis Coffee | The Verdict
Located on Franklin Street, opposite the Queen Victoria Market, Francis Coffee is the latest venture from owner Gerrick Numan, the man…
Where To Get A Good Cup Of Coffee In Tokyo
Sure you can get bananas, condoms and surgical masks from vending machines in Tokyo, but there’s no need to lower yourself to coffee…
Guys, Your Fave Foodie Joints Are About To Serve Up Something Epic!
And it’s all because of Coke Plus Coffee…
6 Mind-Blowing Things We’ve Just Discovered About Coffee
If there’s one drink that sums up Melbourne, it’s coffee. Whether we’re lazily sipping a cold drip on a rare sunny day, or…
This Northside Roastery Is Giving Away Free Coffees For 10 Days
Up in the northern end of Coburg, the Inglewood Coffee Roastery and HQ is a white brick stronghold for some of Melbourne’s finest…
This Is Melbourne’s Best Coffee (Without The Queue)
As you can probably tell, we take our caffeine very seriously.
Take On The Daily Grind With Free Coffee Throughout February From This CBD Brunch Spot
The CBD has come up with plenty of initiatives to coax people back in between the hours of 9am and 5pm, but if anything’s going to…
20 Things Every Coffee Snob Has Said At Least Once
Ah, coffee. What would we do without you? Aside from being a tired, boring iteration of our former selves, we probably sound a whole lot…
Here’s Where You Can Get Free Coffees This Week
It finally happened: recycling just got sexy. That’s because, to celebrate National Recycling Week, there’s a couple…
10 Reasons You Should NEVER Give Up Coffee!
If you’ve clicked on this, we’re guessing you’re one of two kinds of people: you’re either very, very addicted to…
St. Ali Just Released A Very Fancy Instant Coffee
Put down the Nescafe Blend43 and step away from Moccona Classic Medium. For the love of all that is holy, just do it.
If You’re A Coffee Addict You Need To Read This
We know, we know; you can’t get through the 9-5 grind without a steaming cup of liquid java.
A Festival for Coffee? Sign Us Up!
If we had to name one of our favourite things in life, coffee would rank pretty highly. So when we found out about next Sunday’s…
Get Your Caffeine Fix At ONA Coffee’s First Melbourne Cafe
One of Australia’s coffee powerhouses, ONA, has ventured south to open their Victorian flagship location in a Brunswick warehouse…
6 Coffee Tips From the World’s Best Cafe
Listers, when it comes to coffee, we’re pretty serious about what goes into our cuppa. And if we had to choose one Melbourne coffee…
Empowered | How This Company Turned At-Home Coffee Sustainable
We talk with Crema Joe co-founder, Kayla, about the shocking impact of single-use coffee capsules and why recycling isn’t always the…
The Vertue of the Coffee Drink | The Verdict
Vertue of the Coffee Drink is Carlton’s latest awesome-sauce cafe, having opened its doors just six weeks ago and already witnessing a…
PSA: Melbourne is Getting an Espresso Martini Festival
This November, coffee-liqueur company, Mr. Black, is catering to all you coffee-and-liquor-loving Melbournians with an entire day…
5 Ways To Nail Your Morning Coffee Routine, According To Our Team
From bold in-your-face tastes to smoother flavour profiles, knowing your go-to coffee preference can be a game changer when it comes to…
The Best Cafes In Amsterdam
Wherever you are in the world, the hunt for the perfect coffee continues. And, being an Aussie, you’re not going to expect just any…
The Best Cafes To Have Breakfast At In Melbourne
There’s an unwritten rule of being Melbournian that you must LOVE to do breakfast, brunch and all things involving some combination…
The New Food Trend Kicking Coffee To The Curb
Coffee might be about to meet its matcha (sorry, couldn’t resist), because there’s a new green brew making waves on the cafe…
Forget Bubble Tea, This Melbourne Cafe Makes Bubble Coffee
PSA: There’s also a new salted caramel flavour.
The Best Coffee In Melbourne For 2023
Melbourne’s best coffee is a hotly debated topic, the often heated discussion can be overheard most mornings en route, in line, and…
What’s The Deal With Egg Yolk Coffee?
Do you do it the Vietnamese way, or the Norwegian way? We’ve known about egg yolk coffee for a while now, but have noticed that…
Start Fasting Now, Red Velvet Pancakes Are Here
Put the deconstructed Yakult down, because your diet is officially O-V-A-H.
How To Make The Best Espresso Martini EVER!
Urban Listers, we've found the best espresso martini recipe EVER! Thanks to Griffiths Bros, one of the best coffee roasters in…
Bring Back Your Reusable Cup At These Cafes Using The Contactless Coffee Method
It took a while, but Australia was almost at a point where hitting your local coffee joint without a reusable cup would raise eyebrows. It…
Crepes + Booze = The Best Cafe Ever?
Whether you’re a vegemite and vino kinda person, or a butter, sugar and Baileys hot chocolate fan, at Myrtles Crepes and Coffee in…
Meet The Locals: Abbotsford’s Specialty Brew House Channeling The Coffee Bars Of Tokyo
From the outside looking in, the upper echelon of Melbourne’s coffee culture is oft looked upon as something that’s inaccessible…
Axil Coffee To Open Two New Melbourne Stores!
Axil Coffee Roasters is one of our favourite Melbourne haunts - but who are we kidding, isn't it everyone's? So when TUL HQ got wind…
Reader’s Choice: Melbourne’s Best Coffee
With more quality cafes steaming up better lattes than a lot of capital cities around the world, we’ve put together the list of your…
Coffee In A Cone Launches In Melbourne Tomorrow
Ah, Melbourne. Will you ever sleep? This week you opened a three-level Japanese restaurant and launched a new Uber-only Royal…
Sleepy’s Is Switching Up The Take On A Wine Bar—One Hearty Bowl Of Congee At A Time
For the past two years, Carlton North’s Sleepy’s has been quietly building a culture around food, coffee and wine…
A Beer & Coffee Festival Is Coming To Melbourne
In what might be the most Melbourne event of all time, 3 Ravens are bringing the first dedicated beer and coffee festival to the…
Melbourne’s Best Round The World Coffees
From Malaysia to Lebanon, here are the best places in Melbourne to get your coffee—inspired from around the world.
The CBD’s Best Takeaway Coffee
Sometimes all you need is a cup of Joe on the go. So we sent our intrepid caffeine connoisseur, Jane, to pound the streets, laneways and…
8 of Melbourne’s Best Cold Coffees
Before you ask how you tell the difference between an iced coffee, a spritz, a pour over and a cold drip, read on, because we’ve…
6 Daily Sustainable Swaps To Help The Planet And Your Pocket
Save your hip pocket and contribute to fairtrade coffee practices by buying your morning brew at 7-Eleven.
Here’s Where You Can Score Free Espresso Martinis This Month
This coffee-fuelled cocktail is the best way to kick-start an epic evening out in the city.
What Your Coffee Order Says About You
It may be something you do with hardly a second thought, but the way you order your coffee gives an astonishing insight into who you are as…
MAAP LaB, Is The Collingwood Mecca Where Cycling, Coffee And Culture Intersect
The team behind Australian label MAAP have been putting cycling kit on the map for the last six years, and have just opened their…
Einstein’s Relative | The Verdict
Drawing once again on their love and passion for delicious food and great coffee, the owners of popular cafe
Bar Sur Loup | The Verdict
Recently opened in Balwyn North, Bar Sur Loup is a French revelation in crepes, coffee, baguettes & beyond.
Common Galaxia | The Verdict
Dead Man Espresso's sister cafe, Common Galaxia, is keeping the fine people of Seddon in excellent food and exceptional coffee. We…
A Week In The Stomach Of Jimmy’s Burgers | The Urban Diet
We followed Jimmy’s Burgers and his stomach around for a week to see just what a man like him consumes. Spoiler alert: it’s a…
17 Things All Baristas Wish You’d Stop Doing
Baristas have a tough gig—there’s the early hours, the standing on your feet, the making, what we can only refer to as, crimes…
The Feed | All The News You Missed This Week
The weather is getting warmer and you know what that means – activities. All the activities.
It’s Official: Melbourne Pays More For Coffee Than Sydney
We’ll probably never settle the whole Melbourne vs Sydney debate. (They have a Bridge, we have class. Let’s just leave it at…
PSA: You Can Get FREE Frank Body Products Tomorrow
If your eyes are glued to your screen right now and your palms sweaty with excitement, join the club. You’re clearly familiar with…
Hash Specialty Coffee & Roasters | The Verdict
Hot chocolate is having its moment in Melbourne right now, and there’s one in particular that’s been breaking Instagram. The…
The Best Cafes For Study In Melbourne
Now, with the exam season looming for many – sometimes you just want to escape the house and go and study at a café. And no, it…
Melbourne’s Best Hole-In-The-Wall Coffee Pitstops
Sometimes, you just need your espresso brewed express. We’re rounding up the coff’ connoisseurs specialising in the art of…
Where To Find The Best Coffee Near Melbourne’s Universities
Being a uni student shouldn’t always be a constant struggle of balancing poverty, learning to cook, never finding your stats…
The Verdict | Good Times Milk Bar
Located in Melbourne’s bayside suburb of Bentleigh, The Good Times Milk Bar isn’t serving up ice-creams and…
St Zita’s | The Verdict
This super cute suburban hotspot, sitting pretty on the main street, serves up honest, unassuming brunch and delicious coffee to locals…
Confessions Of A Melbourne Barista
Because everyone loves a good cringe story, we’ve teamed up with Skip App, the order-ahead coffee app for some of the best cafes…
The Verdict | Capulus & Co
It’s impossible not to do a double take when you walk by Capulus & Co—not only because it’s an impressive-looking…
Like Minded Projects | The Verdict
What’s that they say about great minds? New Melbourne café, Like Minded Projects, brings together healthy dishes, great coffee…
Keen To Reduce Your Environmental Impact In 2024? It All Starts With Your Morning Coffee
Starting your morning with a half marathon and an entire self-help novel sounds good in theory, but who has time for that?
Victorian Microbreweries Worth a Day Trip
We Victorians do a lot of things well – like laneway bars, live music and coffee. But, as craft beer aficionados will tell you, our…
A Coffee And Beer Festival Is Happening In Melbourne Next Month
We’ve all got our vices, but it’s not often you get a chance to go to a festival where they’re presented to you on a…
11 Incredible Dishes For Melbourne Coffee Lovers
When it comes to creativity in the kitchen, Melbourne’s best cafes are turning out some of the most drool-worthy dishes on our radar.…
Combi Brings the Raw Love to Elwood
Combi Coffee has moved and expanded, and the community is rejoicing. Since opening its doors in Elwood last week, Combi has already become…
10 Ways To Let Your Barista Know You’re In Love With Him
What’s got you going back to that café every chance you get? The hot coffee or the hot barista making it? We think it’s…
Horace Street | The Verdict
Horace Street is a new Malvern cafe boasting communal seating, freshly baked sweet treats and some of Melbourne's best…
Everywhere To Eat In Mornington
With Mt Eliza on one side and Mt Martha on the other, Mornington is a bayside ‘burb that kind of flies under the radar. Not any more.
Sebby’s Scrolls Has Opened Their Dedicated Cinnamon Scroll And Coffee Window In Caulfield
Thick cream cheese frosting meets a perfectly dense cinnamon-spiced bun in symbiotic perfection—this is the simple yet revolutionary…
5 Awesome Things To Do In Melbourne This Week
We’re already sooo ready for the Labour Day long weekend, but before that, we still have the weekdays to get through. With French…
The Cat Cafe is Coming!
Cat lovers, your feline fantasies are about to come true – Cat Cafe is set to open in Melbourne! You'll soon be able to enjoy…
Two Minutes with Jon Freeman | Pardon
Jon Freeman is one half of the crime fighting/coffee brewing duo behind the famous CBD hole-in-the-wall café, Cup of Truth, and…
Melbourne’s Best Craft Shops & Cafes
Melbourne is a city of C-words: coffee, creativity & craft. Here’s our pick of places that celebrate all three, from cute craft…
Melbourne’s Best Stationery Shops
Although some may chastise and call it a cliché, sitting in a cafe solo, journal in one hand and coffee in the other, is a uniquely…
Melbourne’s Best Tiny Cafes & Espresso Bars
The rise of the in-and-out, no fussing about espresso bar means there are a crop of great standing-room-only spots to grab your Melbourne…
Melbourne’s Most Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Cafes
Why I brunch where I brunch comes down to several factors—the coffee, the cheery staff, the ability to get a table after 10am on a…
Sensory Lab Goes International With Two New Venues
If you’ve been to Bali recently, you’ll know that the coffee scene there is on the up and up, thanks mainly to a double shot of…
So, Uh, Broccoli Lattes Are Going To Be A Thing
Broccoli lattes are a thing in Melbourne now. Or at least they will be soon, once the team at Common Folk café in Mornington…
OMG We Just Found A Phone Cover That Will Make You A Cup Of Coffee
Guys shut the front door! Just when you thought you could never be more reliant on your smartphone, someone goes an invents a phone cover…
Allpress Roastery Cafe Spills the Beans
Kiwi coffee outfit, Allpress, have finally found the perfect spot in Collingwood, opening up a vast roastery and café on Rupert…
Your 2024 Guide To The Best Breakfast In Melbourne
Melbourne is renowned for its rich coffee culture and the best breakfast spots. After all, our city would probably win the most variations…
Made in Melbourne: Food & Drink Edition
We’re taking a moment to celebrate the chocolate gurus, coffee roasters, and beer brewers this city has to offer, by showcasing our…
Next-Level Food And Coffee Pairing? It Can Only Be One Melbourne Café…
When it comes to pushing the boundaries of our weekly brunch indulgence, there’s one café that keeps cropping up on our…
Ice Cream Burgers Are Now A Thing In Melbourne
October is officially going to go down as the greatest month in the history of 2017.
The Verdict | Cannoli Bar
It’s venues like Cannoli Bar that make Melbourne interesting. Forget three-storey concept restaurants and $250-a-head CBD…
Urban Provedore | The Verdict
Urban Provedore is a new South Yarra café-cum-provedore serving up gourmet dishes, top quality coffee and only the finest local…
Your Guide To The Best Cafes In Collingwood For 2024
Coffee runs thick through Melbourne's veins, and in every corner of the city you'll find caffeine-soaked cafes to frequent. But…
Fave 5 Wow-Factor Melbourne Breakfasts
When it comes to brekkie, Melbourne cafes are killing it, dipping it in batter, and frying it. We know you’re a hangry lot, so…
We Rank Our Favourite Brunch Foods
There’s no doubt in our minds, brunch is the best meal ever created: bigger than breakfast, more exciting than lunch, we love all…
What The Heck Is Mushroom Coffee?
Melburnians, you know the difference between your ristrettos and your espressos. You know what’s up with affogatos and frappuccinos.…
The Final Step & Top Paddock Promote Social Opportunity
The Final Step Coffee Stop is hosting a charity fundraiser at Top Paddock in Richmond, with entertainment including Missy Higgins. The funds…
Here’s Where To Get Free Coffee In Melbourne This Week!
Thanks to the genius team at DeLonghi, a pint-sized, barista-free café will pop up in Melbourne this week! That’s…
48 Hours In Wellington: A Foodies’ Paradise
Often affectionately positioned as the Melbourne of New Zealand, Wellington is known for its offering of great food, fresh produce, a…
Two Minutes with Jess & Stef Dadon | How Two Live
Jess & Stef Dadon are the power duo behind How Two Live. They take two to share their fave Melbourne haunts for a coffee, a cocktail and…
Break Out The Shaker, Here’s How To Make Longrain’s Exclusive Coffee Cocktail At Home
Melbourne Fashion Festival kicked off this month with fashion taking over our streets, Insta feeds and even one of our favourite…
Introducing Yugen Tea Bar, South Yarra’s Boujee New High Tea Experience
Melbourne’s long affliction for coffee has been well and truly noted, as we come into an age where people are seeking alternative…
Iced Iced Coffee | Melbourne’s Best
As Jane Bunn put it, it’s bloody haaaawwt in Melbourne this summer, which means the traditional skinny cap with extra choc…
Inside AU79, Melbourne’s Most Ambitious New Café
We eat out a lot here at The Urban List. Like...a lot. Probably too much. So when we say Abbotsford’s latest café, AU79, is…
A Guide To The Best Moonee Ponds Restaurants, Cafes And Bars
Situated in the northwest region of Melbourne on Wurundjeri land, Moonee Ponds is an inner-city suburban oasis just seven kilometres from…
The Verdict | North & Eight
Essendon-based brunch oasis, North & Eight, have just turned two and are showing no signs of throwing in the apron yet. Joining the…
Find Carlton’s Newest Coffee Gem Housed Inside An Unassuming Laundromat
Just around the corner from Carlton’s busy Lygon street, you’ll find Two Snakes. A relatively small cafe on Elgin Street that…