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The Age
3 days ago
- The Age
Melbourne might be known as a coffee city but here's where to find a properly brewed tea (and this cute snack)
If we're reading the leaves correctly, Melbourne's tea culture is entering its golden era. How do you take yours? Picked from the mountains of south-west China and steeped to a stopwatch? Sweet, spicy, and redolent of the bustling streets of Mumbai? Served with a scone and a finger sandwich? Which ever way, we've got you covered with Melbourne's best cafes for tea. This list is part of Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, this guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.) Here's the tea. Assembly In a coffee-obsessed city, finding anywhere that serves more than five types of tea is exciting. This little Carlton cafe quietly showcases more than three times that number, spanning white to amber tea, selected carefully from renowned regions such as Yunnan and Kagoshima. Herbal tisanes are blended in-house, and beautiful servingware makes each sip an act of self-care.
The Age
06-06-2025
- General
- The Age
Melbourne's essential sandwich shops
They say you can't improve on perfection, but the sandwich, in all its guises and glories, might just be the best thing since sliced bread – and it's getting better. Every year the naysayers cry bust, but the city's sandwich boom carries on booming. That's why it was an extremely difficult decision to whittle down the city's best for Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, the guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, tea, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.) Masses Bagels This hol(e)y grail went from luring masses to the Carlton Farmers Market to opening its own venue in January. The wild-fermented bagels (by an ex-Etta, Embla and Hector's Deli chef) have an addictive chew and are often still warm when magicked into tartines with atypical toppings. Where else is an everything bagel schmeared with goat's feta and topped with persimmon, salsa verde and fennel-jalapeno oil?
The Age
05-06-2025
- Business
- The Age
Explore Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries
Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025, presented by T2, celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, tea, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods.
Sydney Morning Herald
05-06-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Explore Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries
Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025, presented by T2, celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, tea, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods.
