T he best brunch spots in Melbourne offer top-tier breakfast food, coffee, and ambience. Widely considered Australia’s most notable cafe-loving city, the breakfast scene is as competitive as it ...

Thankfully, in addition to keeping their espresso machines running, many of Melbourne’s best cafes are still doing brunch to take away – although it looks a little different to what you’re used to.

“In the early brunch scene of the late 2000s, you wouldn’t have poached eggs without a siphon coffee,” says Andrew Kelly, founder of specialist Melbourne coffee roasters Small Batch Roasting ...