Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page described taste tests and visits we cannot stand behind, gave wrong addresses for several cafes, and printed coffee prices and a “price check” table we could not source. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every cafe below was checked against its own website and a second, independent listing on 1 October 2026, and the only prices on this page are ones the venues publish themselves.
Six of these seven are cafes run by a Melbourne coffee roaster, pouring its own beans. The catch for a guide is that most CBD cafes don’t put drink prices online. So this list leads with what they do publish: the roaster they name, how they brew, and when they’re open. Seven picks, every one in postcode 3000.
Heads up for weekenders: three of the seven close on Saturday and Sunday. The Sunday answer is at the bottom.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | The order | Listed price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black coffee, no fuss | Patricia Coffee Brewers | A “Black” | Not published online |
| An espresso bar open seven days | Brother Baba Budan | Espresso and a toastie | Not published online |
| Coffee with a full brunch menu | Axil Coffee Roasters Bourke Street | Flat white and brekkie | Not published for this shop |
| Fast takeaway, weekends too | Industry Beans Lt. Collins | Rose Street blend in milk | Not in readable text online |
| A published coffee price | ST. ALi Canteen | Batch brew | $6.50 |
| Filter in an art deco doorway | Market Lane Coffee Mitchell House | A filter coffee | Not published online |
| A sit-down breakfast | Higher Ground | Eggs on sourdough | $16 |
Patricia Coffee Brewers — Rear of 493-495 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
On the corner of Little Bourke and Little William, serving since 2011, and now roasting everything it pours at its own Coburg North roastery. The menu is three words: White, Black, Filter. A White is a double shot with milk steamed to between 57°C and 60°C, says the cafe, in full cream, skim, oat, soy or almond. The long black is a double shot over 70mL of 70°C water. A second shop, Patricia Lonsdale St at 15/50 Lonsdale St, adds a dedicated pour-over room.
Roaster: Patricia, roasted in Coburg North. Bags of its House Espresso start from $20.00 online.
Go for: a Black, one of the three orders on the menu. Weekdays only, 7am to 4pm.
Brother Baba Budan — 359 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Seven Seeds lists this as one of its own venues and calls it “An OG in the Melbourne coffee scene”. The name comes from Baba Budan, the merchant said to have smuggled seven coffee seeds out of Yemen. Food is a rotating cabinet of toasted sandwiches, cakes and pastries, and you can buy bags of Seven Seeds beans, ground to order.
Roaster: Seven Seeds, which roasts in Melbourne.
Go for: an espresso and whatever toastie is in the cabinet. Open seven days, 7am to 5pm.
Axil Coffee Roasters Bourke Street — 565 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Hawthorn roaster calls this “One of our first locations in the CBD to operate with a full brunch menu”, with booths, bar stools and lobby seating. Order-ahead pick-ups come from the foyer espresso bar. The all-day menu it links says Axil has “worked with the 2022 and 2025 World Barista Champions”. That file’s name says “MCT-Burwood”, not Bourke Street, and its drink prices sit beside a note that “we apply a 10% surcharge on weekends”, which a shop closed on weekends cannot be using, so none of its prices are repeated here. Searching for the 385 Bourke Street Axil? That one is in the Galleria, also weekdays only.
Roaster: Axil, roasted in Hawthorn.
Go for: a flat white with brekkie. Weekdays 7am to 4pm; closed weekends.
Industry Beans Lt. Collins — 345 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Fitzroy roaster’s first city cafe, opened on Little Collins in 2017 as a fast takeaway specialty coffee concept. It pours espresso and filter with an express brunch menu, seven days. The house blend here is Rose Street, which Industry Beans describes as “a well-rounded, sweet cup that cuts through milk”. The current menu is a flipbook, so no prices here.
Roaster: Industry Beans, which runs a cafe and roastery in Fitzroy.
Go for: a Rose Street milk coffee. Weekdays 7am to 4pm, weekends 8am to 3:30pm.
ST. ALi Canteen — Shop 1, 30 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
ST. ALi’s weekday “big kids’ canteen”, with entrances on Collins Street and Ridgeway Place. It’s the one cafe here whose own page links a drink menu we can tie to the shop itself. Milk coffee is $5.50, black coffee $5.50, batch brew $6.50 and cold brew $7. The $18 Barista Breakfast is a coffee flight: flat white, espresso and batch brew. Something stranger: the Tonic Sunrise, a double espresso over Fever-Tree tonic, orange peel and ice, at $10. Banana bread is $6.
Roaster: ST. ALi, roasted in Port Melbourne.
Go for: the batch brew, $6.50. Weekdays 7am to 3pm.
Market Lane Coffee Mitchell House — 356 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Market Lane’s smallest shop, opened in December 2024 at the entrance of Mitchell House, the 1937 art deco building on the corner of Lonsdale and Elizabeth Streets. It offers “a full range of filter and espresso drinks”, hot and iced, plus beans to take home. There’s a small standing bar in the window and a public bench out the front. The roaster also runs three shops at Queen Victoria Market: Dairy Hall, 462 Queen Street and 83-85 Victoria Street.
Roaster: Market Lane, roasting in Brunswick East.
Go for: a filter coffee, iced if the arvo’s warm. Open seven days.
Higher Ground — 650 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
The sit-down pick: a historic power station on the corner of Little Bourke and Spencer Streets, with a vaulted 15-metre ceiling and a mezzanine. Bookings are strongly recommended, says the venue. Sweet or savoury? Savoury: eggs on sourdough, poached, scrambled or fried, is $16. Sweet: sourdough or fruit toast with butter and seasonal preserves is $12.50.
Roaster: not stated.
Go for: eggs on sourdough, $16. Weekdays 7am to 5pm, weekends 7.30am to 5pm.
Quick answers
Which Melbourne CBD coffee spots are open on Sunday?
Brother Baba Budan (7am to 5pm every day), Industry Beans Lt. Collins (weekends 8am to 3:30pm), Market Lane Coffee at Mitchell House (open seven days) and Higher Ground (weekends 7.30am to 5pm). Patricia, Axil Bourke Street and ST. ALi Canteen list weekday hours only.
Is Patricia Coffee on Lonsdale Street?
Yes. Patricia’s second shop is at 15/50 Lonsdale St, with batch brew and a dedicated pour-over room. The original is at the rear of 493-495 Little Bourke St. Both open 7am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, and close on weekends and public holidays.
How much is a coffee in the Melbourne CBD?
Of the seven cafes here, ST. ALi Canteen is the only one whose own page links a readable drink menu for that shop: milk coffee $5.50, black coffee $5.50 and batch brew $6.50. Axil Bourke Street links a menu named for other branches, Industry Beans’ menu is an image flipbook, and the rest publish no drink prices, so check at the counter.
Where is Axil Coffee on Bourke Street?
Axil Coffee Roasters Bourke Street is at 565 Bourke St, open 7am to 4pm on weekdays and closed on weekends. Axil also lists a Galleria shop at Floor G/385 Bourke St, also weekdays only.
Is there a Market Lane Coffee at QV?
Not on Market Lane’s own list of locations. Its shop in the CBD grid is in Mitchell House at 356 Lonsdale Street, and it runs three more at Queen Victoria Market: Dairy Hall, 462 Queen Street and 83-85 Victoria Street.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each cafe’s own website: its location page, menu page or linked menu file, and its listed hours. Each address was confirmed at a second, independent source: the City of Melbourne’s What’s On listing, Broadsheet, or the cafe’s OpenStreetMap entry. Prices appear only where the venue publishes them. ST. ALi Canteen’s come from the menu PDF its Collins Street page links (a file whose link stamps it December 2024), and Higher Ground’s from the menu on its own site. Patricia’s bean price is from its online shop. Menus and hours change, and public holidays differ, so check before you walk over. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of coffee or dish, not the cafe’s own.
Seen something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and what has changed, and we will check it again.
Sources
- Patricia Coffee Brewers: patriciacoffee.com.au and its menu page; address also at Broadsheet and What’s On Melbourne
- Brother Baba Budan: Seven Seeds venue page; address also at Broadsheet and What’s On Melbourne
- Axil Coffee Roasters Bourke Street: venue page, all locations and its linked all-day menu; address also at Broadsheet
- Industry Beans Lt. Collins: venue page and industrybeans.com; address also at What’s On Melbourne and OpenStreetMap
- ST. ALi Canteen: venue page and its menu PDF; address also at OpenStreetMap
- Market Lane Coffee: locations and Mitchell House page; Mitchell House address also in Broadsheet
- Higher Ground: highergroundmelbourne.com.au and its menu; address also at What’s On Melbourne and OpenStreetMap
