Whether you are meeting with an old friend after a long time or simply hungry enough to munch on anything you can get, the ultimate brunch city of Melbourne is full of choices. Taste some of the best dishes in the city, before sweetening up things with hot chocolates. If that doesn’t suit your taste, why not try some doughnuts and milkshakes? Here are a few brunch spots in the city you should definitely try. If you are planning a group event, simply book minibus hire with driver in Melbourne for a convenient ride to these locations.
The Kettle Black
Known to be a refined sister of Top Paddock, The Kettle Black’s menu has some favourite listings with ash rolls, local kelp salt and homemade coconut yoghurt. The attention that goes into preparing and sourcing recipes here is on parity with a few of the best dining destinations in Melbourne. Other key highlights in the menu include polenta porridge with blistered maple and strawberry textures, along with chilli scrambled eggs and cured Flinders Island wallaby. The venue is nestled in a Victorian terrace with an interior as good as the cuisine, all gold, green and white marble.
Café Ora
If you are looking for some creative brunch dishes, delight your taste buds at Cafe Ora with amazing selection of cuisines on offer. Try the split shot, a cross between piccolo latte and espresso, served with a mineral water cleanser, or the spiced tiffin egg including a soft boiled number rolled in a flash-fried and cashew crumb. Add to that, the finely spiced and diced potato and Indian chutney, simply fantastic! Whatever you order here will be sourced from high quality ingredients. Try prawn toast for a different kind of brunch high!
Industry Beans
Set inside a converted warehouse, Industry Beans has a progressive brunch menu with on-site coffee roasting. It has got something to suit everyone’s taste. The list includes green tea sea salt on sourdough, charred lemon, avocado smashed with chevre, chocolate soil, cold drip gel, coffee custard pudding and a lot more pretty things. The best part about this spot is watching the punters running laps at CrossFit Studio next door while munching on a wagyu burger. Enjoy the heated and sheltered outdoor area, while biting the coconut crusted brioche.
Rudimentary
This popular cafe in Footscray is not only reliable for a good brunch, but it will also entice you to live in a ship container. Uniquely designed in an innovative way, it’s a classic setting with fresh flowers, green tiling, pale timbers, and chairs in taupe. Outdoor seating arrangement is well sheltered by umbrellas, with planter boxes in the vicinity. The seafood in the menu include egg scrambles smoked trout, with pickled fennel and salmon. And then you have pork belly roasted with pig’s ear, along with egg fries, tamarind and chilli. One should not miss out on tasting Buttermilk waffle soaked in quark, quince and pancetta or the home-made caramel doughnuts.
Archie’s All Day
Archie’s is presented to you by the famous Bluebird Espresso Cafe of Collingwood, offering delicious brunch items ever since its opening in 2015. Carrying over from the previous menu is the smashed avocado, featuring huevos sucios served with jalapeno spiked cheese, chipotle mayo, fried eggs, black beans, salsa and tater tots, along with smoked cream of maple and sweet potato custard. Enjoy the courtyard setting while brunching on fried egg withy crunchy Korean rice cakes.
The Grain Store
This gem of a brunch spot is at the subdued corner of the central business district, in a haughty space paying honour to its origin as a delivery store. At the rear end of the sheltered doors is a spot where porridge comes with candy pumpkin and the bacon is dry cured. Carrots are served as caramelised jams, while Mandarins in gelatine form. Although it sounds a bit complicated, but is worth tasting, along with dishes such as gruyere potato rosti and Portobello mushroom spread on hazelnut poach eggs. Not to miss out the ricotta pancakes, buckwheat and pink lady.
The Farm Café
This cafe is like a refuge in the middle of a camp, situated inside the Children Farm of Collingwood. Here you will see peacocks and chooks roaming around free and goats bleating in the distance. A favourite brunch item is the appetising Salad with lemon cashew paste and molasses dressing, and if you are looking for something spicy, the home-made beef sausage roll is the thing to watch out for. It is completely an outdoor setting, but well equipped with plenty of protection and heating facility, in case the weather changes. While you are here, you should definitely taste the famous goat’s toast, comprising of goat’s curd, poached egg, cooked beetroot relish and avocado.
Bowery to Williamsburg
Americans gave us mac, cheese, the lox bagel and the Rueben, but this Laneway Cafe is one class apart. Modelled on a subway station, Bowery to Williamsburg is a laneway cafe in CBD that gave us fried challah topped with lemon curd and peanut butter, along with slow-roasted kaisefleisch with poached eggs and maple mustard. Dishes offered here are both satisfying and appetizing. With a sheer amount of cheese on Rueben, it’s more of a soul food that will melt your heart. Enjoy the taste of New York right here in Melbourne at this wonderful brunch spot.
Lights In The Attic
It’s a great feeling when you are looking for that perfect brunch item, and you are unable to decide what to order, just because you are literally spoilt for choice. Breakfast at this venue is a tad above than other spots, with textures ruling in dishes like Wild Forest, which is an amazing mess of scrambled eggs with fennel, crackling, bacon, mushroom and potato. Try ‘Finding Nemo’ covered in bonito flakes and chunky with salmon. Amid the Edison-bulbed white-tiled cafe are siphons and beakers, throwing light at the experimental nature of this spot. How about trying something like bird nest scotch egg in a potato chip nest. Sounds weird, but it tastes like heaven!