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Amici Bakery Cafe Victoria

Appetite Food Store Victoria

Baretto Espresso Bar Victoria

The Basement Cafe Victoria

Beetroot Victoria
A newish cheery Hardware Lane cafe with well priced snacky food, fast, for city workers.

Belinda's Foodstore Victoria
Belinda's is hidden away in an arcade. Locals pop in for breakfast, lunch and take home dinner meals.

Bells Hotel Victoria

Big Harvest Victoria
Big Harvest caterers moonlight here as a cafe. Everything from breakfasts to bread based items to main dishes and even desserts.

Birdie Num Nums Victoria

Bisq Victoria
Bisq is the classiest of the office cafeteria that adorn this section of Flinders La. Comfort, but not too much is the aim here.

Borders Cafe Victoria
Tucked in the middle of this vast bookshop is a cafe where you can thumb through your prospective purchases

Brandon Hotel Victoria

Breadwell Victoria

Bunyip Cafe Victoria

Caffe 523 Victoria

Cafe 55 Victoria
253 metres above the Melbourne skyline is our tallest cafe, nestled right there on the panoramic Rialto observation deck.

Cafe Au Soleil Victoria

Cafe Bagatelles Victoria
Described by locals as the "gossip corner cafe", Cafe Bagatelles is in a happy spot overlooking Carlton Square.

Cafe Bakpak Victoria

Caffe e Biscotti Victoria
Once a little hole in the wall, Caffe e Biscotti has expanded to include two rooms with tables and chairs out in Block Place.

Cafe Mezz Victoria
A modern comfortable space despite a rather stark quality. Enlivened by friendly staff.

Cafe Plum Victoria

Cafe Segovia Victoria
The first cafe in Block Place before the latte-craze hit Melbourne; Cafe Segovia set the standard for cafe food and good coffee.

Cafe Serendipity Victoria
A tiny place that looks like you average sandwhich bar but the menu offers healthy and interesting alternatives to the norm.

Cafe Sweethearts Victoria
A real stayer, begun in 1987 and still going strong. Very popular for breakfast and with those shopping at the market opposite.

Cafe Trutrack Victoria

Cafe Vagabond Victoria
True to its name, Cafe Vagabond attracts folk from beyond its neighbourhood. They enjoy its hip feel, bright colours and young staff.

Cafe Varda Victoria

Cafe Vue Victoria

Cafe Y Victoria

Cafe Zappa Victoria
Cafe Zappa is South Melbourne's lunch time Mecca. Employees of the local arts, film and television companies fight for foccacia.

Cafe Zest Victoria
Elevated above street level and looking out over the water with great views from all parts of this busy cafe/food store/bar.

Carlton Espresso Victoria
Pizza by the slice in Lygon St served in a smart modern little cafe - good coffee too.

Carlton Paragon Victoria
Charming corner position, nice open room and popular meeting place for Carltonians.

Chaise Lounge Victoria
Nice to be able to escape the corporate rat-race and have a drink in this funky little grotto.

Coffea Victoria
Visit any time during market hours and this place is packed to the rafters with coffee-a-holics in this coffee roaster.

Coffee Darling Victoria
Danny Colls (Cafe Racer) does it for South Yarra - great coffee simple cheap (under $10) menu and ripper situation.

The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant Victoria

The Commune Victoria

The Corner On Bellair Victoria
A small book shop at the back and a cafe at the front provide comfort for mind and body. Excellent coffee, ambience and service.

Dancing Dog Cafe Victoria

Degraves Espresso Bar Victoria
This mostly outside cafe that takes over a lane is long time favourite of city work workers and residents. Always busy for coffee, lunch and snacks.

Deli Manjoo Victoria

Drouls Victoria
It's testament to Droul's cool that it manages to cater for the designer clad, poodle walking diner, as well as the rest of us.

e:fiftyfive Victoria
Backpackers and travellers of all ages find this Internet cafe a comfortable way to contact the world they have left.

Elizabeth Street Espresso Bar Victoria
This one-time cigarette kiosk has become Melbourne's tiniest cafe. Good coffee and bread based snacks.

Emerald Hill Cafe Victoria
A warm, cosy, cafe with eclectic decor and pressed metal ceilings that serves mostly bread based snacks

Fandango Victoria

Fare Exchange Victoria

Federal Coffee Palace Victoria

Feedings at Readings Victoria
A great child-friendly cafe at Reading in the old Port Melbourne Post Office. Feeding the mind and body.

Feeling Fruity Victoria
The first of the Feeling Fruity juice chain, this juice bar is in David Jones. Offering a variety of fruit salad combinations

Figs Victoria
A North Carlton neighbourhood cafe with courtyard garden sheltered by a spreading fig tree.

Flinks Victoria

French Quarter Patisserie Victoria

Fruas Crepes & Chocolat Victoria

Fruits of Passion Victoria
This place is packed full of eccentricities. From the produce on the shelves to the service staff to the clientele.

Garden Plaza Cafe Victoria
Looking out onto a manicured garden surrounded by the BHP Building, The Garden Plaza sits like an oasis in the middle of the city.

George Street Cafe Victoria
There's a real community feel in this corner cafe. There are tables outside and not much traffic to disturb you or the dog.

Greville Hotel Victoria

Guggenheim Victoria
For those of us who understand that a bagel is more than a bun with a hole in it, Guggenheim adds significantly to the amenities of the inner-city.

Happy River Cafe Victoria

Ice Cafe Bar Victoria
Somewhere between a bar and a cafe this groovy place whith its ultra-smooth late night decor has a real buzz at the bar.

Illia Victoria
This is a popular al fresco spot for nearby office workers and Melbourne's legal fraternity.Good cafe fare and service.

The Journal Victoria
The new venture by Con Christopoulos (Degraves, European, Supper Club) is a smart modern cafe decorated as a reading room.

Kanteen Victoria
On the banks of the river in South Yarra is Kanteen - a few table and a tent surround a strategically placed amenities block - caters for cyclist, joggers and others.

Kitcch Victoria

The Lawson Grove Shop Victoria

Ludo Victoria

Lygon Food Store Victoria
A Lygon St institution. Now you can go beyond the shop to a small, clean, bright area and enjoy very good panini made up from the shop's products.

Macchiato on Collins Victoria

Maori Chief Hotel Victoria
It may have funky, smart retro clutter but it's still a good local for a beer or three.

The Mess Hall Victoria

Mezzanine Cafe Victoria

Montague Foodstore Victoria
The corner shop in the quiet heart of South Melbourne's plane-tree-lined streets is now a cafe with a food counter.

Mr Price's Foodstore Victoria

New International Bookshop & Cafe Victoria
Visit here for historic and entertainment purposes. The cafe is attached to the bookshop inside the Trades Hall building.

Noisette Victoria

North Cafeteria Victoria

Nudel Bar Victoria
Convenient, quick, the menu comprises pasta and Asian style noodles to macaroni cheese. Serves are large, flavoursome and a cheap option at this end of the city.

Observatory Cafe Victoria
The large glassed cafe in the gardens is a terrific place for visitors to Melbourne

Ortigia Victoria
Mostly take-away this very popular pizza lunch spot at the legal end of town

Passionfoods Victoria

Pavilion At Fitzroy Gardens Victoria
The Fitzroy Garden Pavillion is a much loved venue set in Melbourne's green heart.

Pepper Victoria
More friendly than cool this rather Brunswick St cafe inhabits a shopfront in Pin Oak Cres.

Pool Caf Victoria

Postal Hall Victoria
At the ground level of the Hero Apartment Buildings, Postal Hall brings to inner city workers and residents, reliable, good quality coffee, food and friendly service

The Pound Victoria
Sit on a crate like seats on a footpath just off Chapel Street, look at the grooviness of The Pound. The service is friendly, sometimes, and the menu short but tasty.

Q Eleven Victoria
Modern cafe food using largely organic produce in this cafe near the South Melbourne Market.

Queen Vic Gallery Cafe Victoria

Royal Botanic Tearooms Victoria
This cafe's a green and serene, a haven in the middle of the city, and it all adds up to being very peaceful.

Ruby Orange Victoria

Sahara Restaurant Victoria
A student haven with retro found-object furnishings amid a mixture of lounge room and kitchen table setups.

Salon Rouge Victoria

Sam And Sons Victoria

See Life Differently Cafe Victoria
A cafe with extreme decoration owned by the advertising agency upstairs and put together by architects Six Degrees.

Shamiana Victoria

Small Poppies Cafe & Bar Victoria

SMXL Victoria

SMXL Little Bourke Victoria

Spoonful Victoria
Standard (read creative), but high-quality fare available to eat in or take away at this eclectically decorated cafe and produce store.

St All Victoria

Stax Victoria
A crisply coloured interior, functional high gloss wooden benches, quietly humorous understated art works on walls. Good cafe food.

Stuzzichino Victoria

Summer Cafe Victoria

Superfino Victoria

Sweet Mama's Cafe Victoria
A cute place tucked into what was the disabled access to the bank. Friendly guys serving who are fast.

Switch Board Victoria
A pair of tiny holes-in-the-wall tucked away at the back of the Manchester Unity - coffee and goodies.

Time Out Victoria

Toasted On Collins Place Victoria

Travellers Cafe Victoria

Two Fingers Victoria

Two Floors Up Victoria

Verve Victoria
A cafe wrapped in a clothing shop. So tiny is this space that you could probably do both things at once.

Westin Foyer Bar Victoria

William Angliss College Victoria

Word Lounge Bar Victoria

Yellow Submarine Cafe Victoria
Long, narrow, and yellow. The cafe is Irishman, Kilian Ryan's, contribution to the increasingly diverse Port Melbourne cafe scene.

Zucchero Espresso Bar Victoria