Pope Joan
Great coffee. Ridiculously good food. Nice setting so you don’t feel like you’re sitting on a main road. Unless you’re sitting out the front, then you’re literally sitting on a main road.
Nearby cafes
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St Ali North
314-316 Park Street, Carlton North VIC 3054, Australia
I rescind my earlier rating. They can’t make a good soy latte at all
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SUGARDOUGH
163 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
Sugardough is an excellent bakery café, with some of the best cakes and pastries in town. Coffee here is a fine accompaniment to those things, but not the reason I come here. It is highly variable — some of their staff make excellent coffee and some mak…
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Poached
169 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia
Poached is the best place for a takeaway coffee in the block, and you’ll see a lot of people doing just that in the mornings. It is probably the most mainstream cafe in the strip: no fancy roasted beans here, just standard Lavazza. But they make it wel…
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Milkwood
118 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East Victoria 3057, Australia
Excellent coffee at the last 96 tram stop. Food is also next level cafe fare.
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Musterhaus
8B Eunson Ave, Northcote VIC 3070, Australia
A pretty solid brew, no bitterness to the blend.
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Supermaxi
305 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC 3068, Australia
Having poached the chef from Melbourne institution Ladro, Supermaxi serve up rather excellent pizza. Alas, the coffee does not match: a little burnt, quite bitter and rather a let down after an otherwise beautiful meal.
