Summary: 4.2. Very good contemporary Melbourne cafe. Equal to many or most highly rated places…read more Food, coffee and service are all excellent. Simplicity is the key here. Everything is done well. Nothing is over complicated. Review: The cafe is on the north side of lower Heidelberg road. It's a pleasantly laid out establishment. There are nice wood featured chairs and tables throughout. A wood covered front counter as well. Brick walls throughout too with one small tiled wall. There's a reasonable distance between tables. Nice lighting is also featured. Conventional music playing on the sound system, a bit prosaic for me but I could have just scored the wrong rotated playlist. Maybe needs something a little softer. Overall the space has a nice warm cozy feel that was very likable . I scored a pleasant greeting on arrival. It was hard not to notice the manager and staff interacting well with patrons, which enhanced the nice feel of the cafe. I had a beautiful coffee first off which came out quickly after I ordered it. It was a rich, dark, well made brew with impressive length. No half measures were taken on this long black. It was a beauty. The food is the key though, eh. It's a smallish menu here for all day breakfast and lunch. I found that an advantage as too many menu items can befuddle a simple soul like me. Nothing was overcomplicated and this menu offered ample choice I thought. I ordered the curds and beets dish off the lunch menu. This consists of goats cheese croquettes, heirloom baby beets, beetroot pesto and a frisée salad. It's a rustic looking dish but wonderfully so. It made for a gorgeous lunch that gave me all the freshness, health and flavour I was after when I walked in. The goats cheese croquettes were soft, delicate and exquisitely flavoured. They were really lovely. The heirloom beets of various kinds were excellent too. Tasty with just the right amount of give. Lovely greens with a good dressing as well. The side of peas and broad beans was really delicious too. I could barely fault these dishes which were very good. Maybe a tiny bit more seasoning on both dishes, although maybe many people want to control this themselves. I found myself preferring this cafe to a few of those in the inner north. The concentration here is on substance not style. I thoroughly enjoyed the cafe which has only been open a few months. Based on this experience, it will do very well indeed.

The menu was great, was nice balance of tradition and innovation and delivered on expectation. The…read morevenue itself is lovely. Courtyard is available to dogs which is pretty cool! Coffee was great I will definitely be back.

I definitely liked the cafe, particularly since they made a great pot of tea, and also some…read morebeautifully creamy eggs, and some lovely bacon, along with some hash browns. Yeah, I sort of discovered it in my wanders, and since it was the first place where I jumped off the train, I decided to give it a go, and it was definitely worth it. Oh, and the service was great as well. Being close to the railway station also helps quite a lot too.

Nice restaurant and good food. Nice atmosphere and the customer service is great. There are no…read moremistakes and they try to make the customers feel appreciated with their services

I discovered this little out of the way coffee shop as I was making my way around the back streets…read moreof Reservoir to attempt to find another coffee shop and bar that I wanted to check out. In a way it seems to be one of those places that indicates that Reservoir is slowly but surely being bitten by the hipster bug. However, being tucked away down in the back streets means that it can be a little difficult to find. Anyway, seeing it, and doubting that I would be down here again any time soo, I decided to pop in for a coffee. Well, coffee was pretty cool, but I also have to mention that Darth Vader was also standing in the middle of the room. I'm not sure what he was waiting for because he was there when I arrived, and I got my coffee before he got anything, so I'm still a little baffled. However, as a coffee spot it wasn't bad.

Fantastic coffee. Can't wait for breaky. Damn busy as its popular here! Super friendly staff. You…read morecan smell the bacon before you walk in.

I walked past this place earlier and decided to come back later because it looked like a bar. Well,…read moreit isn't really a bar, it is more a cafe that has a rather nice courtyard out the back. I found that the service too bad, and they were reasonably helpful as well, but the food choices didn't seem to be all that great. Still they did make some rather nice, and quite crispy, fries, so I did actually like that. Yet, the place didn't seem to jump out at me in the way that some places tend to do. I was nice, but not as great as some.

It's a 3.7 for me. Nice sized space inside. Not too noisy either. Lovely outdoor area as well…read more I started with a lovely long black coffee. It was superb. You can't do it much better. I ordered the chilli scrambled eggs. These had a pleasant nicely balanced warm lips generating flavour. I initially thought the dish but a little light on for eggs. The sourdough the eggs were were perched was good but a little bit thick. But, by the end I thought I was probably wrong about those two aspects. The dish was very nice and the size was basically perfect. Other meals were much enjoyed by our party of 6 including the world's most beautiful woman's pumpkin toastswith avocado, chick peas, oven roasted tomatoes, etc. There was delightful service throughout from a number of servers including one in a beanie and black t shirt who was exceptional. Conclusion: a perfectly good well run place with very good food and nice service. Not mush else needed is there.

This is a lovely place for a catch up lunch. The menu is varied and you can always find something…read moreto try. Today I tried the special tuna poke bowl - enjoyable but I was expecting raw not cooked tuna.

Great spot for an intimate brunch. The foreigner breakfast is excellent. Super friendly and vegan…read moreoptions.

Mr Wednesday 3.7…read more Just a quick coffee and snack today. Nice rustic retro space here. Exposed brick, timber, even some copper forms part of interior. There's an overall dark aura but it feels pretty cool overall. The coffee here was good. The onion muffin I chose was delicious too, best I've had anywhere for a while. Service was good here as well. Everything was delivered very quickly and politely. Nice place here. I'll certainly return for brunch in future.

The advent of modern technology has meant that any destination one seeks out is easier to find. Mr…read moreWednesday is the sort of cafe that belongs on a treasure map replete with X marks the spots as well as several cryptic clues. It's located along train lines in a discreet quiet pocket of the Fairfeild suburb. In essence, to go on a search and adventure, Mr Wednesday awaits your arrival. Inside it has a fantastic fit out; with great design elements and a well planned floorspace. Shelving in the kitchen maximisies storage area without being too cluttered or cramped. Overall Mr Wednesday has a very pleasing presence, with relaxed confident service. Eating in, one is allowed to dine at the pace they wish, and nothing feels rushed. Staff do their thing, but only when needed, i.e. there is no minimal intervention for asking for anything further or how the experience is going. Perfect. Filter coffee is a winner, and the jerk chicken burger in a brioche bun (Dench qaulity) is sublime. The best part is, the aforementioned burger comes fantastic home style potato chips. All in all nothing to fault; switched on easy going staff in a pleasent evironment.

FINALLY decent coffee in Macleod! We have been crying out for a place like this for quite some…read moretime. Their coffee was really delicious, the best you will get in the area. I also ordered a Turkish bread (take-away), which I thought was quite expensive at around $10.50, but it was nice. The cafe is bright and colorful, and I just know this place is going to be a hit with the locals.

Our new local has landed! I had a few minutes up my sleeve before work this morning & ordered a…read moretake away coffee. It's good coffee, not too hot so I could drink it straight away & made quickly, which was lucky as I power walked to the train. There were so many treats in the pretty display cabinets - cupcakes, slices, if only it was after 9am! There was a decent brunch menu also. I'll be back for brekky & cake soon!

Since 2020 this has been a vegan coffee shop with great food, wine & beer and coffees. It's has a…read morelovely outdoor dog-friendly courtyard plus indoor dining and sidewalk tables separated for smoking/non-smoking. On Mondays they receive a shipment from Future Sushi which I eagerly await.

One Sunday morning I found myself down in Fairfeild looking for the coffee shop that my friend had…read moredecided to have his birthday brunch. It turned out to be this place, which was quite a pleasant surprise. The location is actually important because he is incredibly particular about the food that he eats, so for him to choose this place indicates that they cater for people with allergies. I ended up having the beans, and two cups of coffee, which also says quite a lot about their coffee. Oh, and if you have a kid, go for the babychino.

One of the things that I really appreciate about these newer cafes is that they have sockets where…read moreyou can recharge your phone. Okay, I was a little ansey about them at first, until I realised that the phone can prevent somebody accessing your data. Anyway, this place was nice, and they made a decent coffee as well. In fact it happens to be located in one of those newers buildings which is charming as well. However, the one thing that did annoy me was the newspapers that they had available for reading.

My wife and I stopped here for the first time. Fantastic food, and pretty good long blacks…read more I'd give this place 4.5 stars if I could. I ordered the "Bao", and it was incredible. Just enough crunchy bits on the inside to keep it interesting, and it's spicy as well due to the chillies. My wife had the "huevos ranchos" Didn't have enough of it to have an opinion. The long blacks were a bit weak, but still better than many places. A textbook long black should be 80-90ml, but what we had was probably 150ml if I had to take a guess. Still not bad though, and we'll definitely be back!