Love this little local gem! I just moved to Melbourne and my…read morehousemate brought me here for breakfast as it's close to where we live in Brunswick. I have been a few times now, adopting it as my own favorite local. The food here is unreal, fantastic coffee and always greeted by the loveliest staff. The dukkah encrusted egg and chili mushroom dish is out of this world. Raspberry chocolate French toast is to die for and the smashed avo and fried haloumi toast is superb... You cannot go wrong with any choice on the menu.

Excellent coffee blends with many options. Food is also really great. Lovely people thereread more

I visited this cafe early one morning in my attempt to have breakfast at as many of the cafes on…read moreDegraves Street as possible. Well, I suspect that after this one it leaves me with only one more, though I seem to not make an effort to stop there, however that is another story. This cafe was okay, but nothing too special. The staff were quite nice, and the breakfast reasonable. However don't expect artisan food or coffee as this place pretty much just offers the basics. Can get a bit noisy and crowded though as people make their way through in the morning.

My review is only for their drinks. Maybe it's not my type. Their mixed berry smoothies and…read morecappuccino is quite plain. Need a bit of sugar. Lasagna seems to be popular here.

Great almond coffee and good breakfast! Love the vietnamese…read moreroll. Service a bit slow on weekends though. Cosy environment

This cafe turned out to be pretty good, and their breakfast options weren't all that bad either…read more Then again that is probably why I considered this place to be pretty good. Sure, it does get a little crowded at times, but that probably has something to do with the fact that it is pretty good. The service was great, and they made a pretty decent pot of tea as well. Oh, and the breakfast, well, that certainly was something that I quite enjoyed as well. Yeah, this is definitely a place to check out.

Funky cafe. Service a bit mixed, really friendly staff member and manager who went out of their way…read moreto be of service, and then one grump who walked away half way through ordering. Delicious fresh muffin and good coffee.

I did not like what I had …read more.. But objectively and fairly this is a good place. Yarraville has a lot of restaurants ... But at lunchtime few people eat there. The crowds pile into two places, two coffee cafes across the plaza from each other. The crowd is Anglo and affluent. The food is Australian - with artistic touches. Love of the life was enthusiastic about her smashed avo. I had an enormous chicken salad, With superfresh beautifully poached chicken breast Lots of Asian cabbage And enough bird peppers to ruin the whole thing. Not very many bird peppers will do the job, And there were more than not very many here. I think the attempt was to be not just a typical Anglo-Aussie cafe, But to have a dish with an edge to it. I like the spirit ... But that is not at all how I would add kick to chicken salad. That said - both the size of the crowd And the high quality execution of everything except that one silly error Suggests that you can do well here.

Percy's Aeroplane is a pocket sized cafe located in Kew and quite a popular brunch destination in…read morethe neighborhood. They got such an adorable interior design and welcoming atmosphere; bright, youthful and cheery from the major applications of yellow colors and exposed white bricks, the space was also embellished with cute decorations that matches with their theme perfectly. For my brunch, I went with their most popular offering, Matcha Hotcakes. The presentation was very orgasmic to the eye, pictured this - two green tea hotcakes sandwiched between a Nutella brioche donut drizzled with chocolate ganache and garnished with berries and whipped cream. Sounds incredible delicious ain't it? Well... Not so much. The hotcakes were completely soggy, drenched with disgustingly sweet and runny chocolate and smothered with the bitter raspberry jam.... Overall, it tasted way too confusing for my simple palate. I also got their matcha latte, and it came in a cute "bear" presentation, but taste-wise, it was equally disappointing. Despite of the bright green color, there was no hint of the green tea, no sweetness, no taste whatsoever, this to me tasted just like a plain warm milk. Overall, other than the playful interior layout and the gorgeous looking food, color me unimpressed.

Now this was a pretty awesome coffee shop. I had known about it from my research, and while I was…read morekilling some time while wandering around Kew I decided to stop by and pay it a visit. First of all it is open on a Saturday morning, which is something that a lot of the other ones in Kew weren't doing. Secondly the coffee is nothing short of awesome. It is a little bit out of the way, but it still has a great charm about it, and while it does get crowded, it is still worth visiting.

Well, we went for a bit more of a wander to find some more places to have a coffee, though my mate…read moreisn't a huge coffee drinker, at least when he isn't at home. We decided to come here, and I must say that I was pretty impressed. The coffee was actually pretty good, and the service wasn't all that bad either. I ended up only having a coffee, namely because there didn't seem to be much space to sit down inside, with restrictions and all, but it was still a pretty good place to check out.

VINTAGE AND RETRO BOOKS (At home feel) SEPT 23RD 2016 1:30PM…read more I once knew a collector back in the US that had a vast majority of vintage books from a long time ago till now. All of which were printed with a very stiff cover and harboured a glosses illustrated tint to them. Some of you reading this might recall such examples like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys or Jack London's "Call of the Wild" the first fascination to me was the menus in Batches, as they took vintage. Retro styled books and pasted the menu inside them. Curiously, one might be compelled to even start reading them. But its all together a magnificent intrigue of it own and adds character too Batches. There is a sparkling celery tonic drink in the non-alcoholic category of the menu. And as my close friend had remarked its rather refreshing and not too sweet. She would recommend it! She recommends the dish she had also as just and perfect for anytime hunger. Poached eggs over Hash. My dish was the scrambled eggs with sourdough toast And side of spicy baked beans! I have to admit I looked at the other tips and reviews of this place and they were right about getting an egg plate if your not sure cause it was soo filling. And soo perfect for the appitite I did have. One thing that took the .5 away from them was the size of my iced coffee. I'd rather not get into too much detail, but a mouse wouldn't be satisfied with that either... (Sorry no picture of it cause it was that embarrassing) Although I must admit; Prior to receiving the drink at my table I thought it great the server asked if I wanted it over ice cream or just milk. Most places I've already been to here in Melbourne assume- ice cream unless you say otherwise. If it was taller and little larger then a water glass then I would have given them full 5stars. The novelty of Batches is its "homestead" feel and a go to Grandma's home and read book feel!! Get full and come back again! Loved it!!

Walked here from base in threathing weather looking it would start raining soon. So we sat…read moreinside to get away from the weather. Once seated I ordered a skinny cafe latte a jasper ordered a cappuccino. My skinny rated an overall 10/10 as did jasper's cappucino. So overall so far it's a 10/10 morning. Heading back to base for a Pilates session Soon. jasper and Angelo

A neat little package of a cafe, Ora makes me want to move out to the 'burbs and start living in a…read morehouse with a white picket fence. The coffee is cracking, with the house espresso blend from Proud Mary and a rotating list of single origins from the who's who of coffee world - Market Lane, Seven Seeds et al. which you can enjoy as a pour over or siphon. The menu is, well, delightful. Seriously, it made my heart feel all squishy and happy as I browsed through. Maybe it was the delicate logo and pretty typeface (font nerd), the seasonal menu ingredients (broad beans picked from the cafe's veggie garden anyone?) or perhaps the non-standard cafe ingredients (duck eggs, manchego, black pudding? Yes please!)... Either way, my face was all happiness as I sat in the sun deciding what to eat at this barely two week old cafe. I settled on 'Smoked trout, soft boiled egg, avocado and herb salad on sourdough' ($18) and it was everything I'd hoped it would be. High quality ingredients put together without apparent fuss, but a whole lot of love. The smoked trout lay sexily amongst chunks of avocado and a soft boiled egg, cut open to reveal its bright orange oozing centre, the herb salad (complete with another non-standard cafe ingredient - fennel pollen) scattered over the top. A winning dish and one I'd be keen to have again next time if it weren't for the pea and bacon hash, the bircher muesli or the prawn and scallop ravioli that sit high on my "must try" list. If I were going to move to the suburbs and have the white picket fence, I'd move to Kew just to be close to Ora.

This place is a St. Kilda institution. Before you read on, if you haven't had The Provincial…read morebreakfast here then you are just not living! I used to live in Elwood and now back again. Damn I miss this place. Great vibe. So casual. Really enjoy myself. I'm glad I'm back in the good so expect some more Elwood reviews. Peace out.

I guess I was lucky when I stepped in here because despite the fact that they were close to closing…read moretime, I still managed to get a sit down cup of coffee. Actually, that worked really well in my favour, because it meant that I could get a pretty good feel for the place, and that feel was pretty good. They definitely made a decent coffee, and the staff was as pleasant as ever. I'll have to say that this is another one of those great coffee shops that happen to be located on the St Kilda strip.