http://www.melbournecoffeereview.com/2008/04/switch-board-cafe-mechantile-building-foyer-off-collins-street.html Life's too short to drink bad coffee Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.melbournecoffeereview.com/2008/04/switch-board-cafe-mechantile-building-foyer-off-collins-street.html/comment-page-1#comment-8055 Steve Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:41:25 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~macbookone/mcr/?p=1082#comment-8055 I myself used to be a Barista and have been training other baristas for more than 10 years. I have been searching for a coffee place that sells the best coffee in the CBD for a very long time. I've finally found this place. The coffee is consistently amazing and with the best value too. I myself used to be a Barista and have been training other baristas for more than 10 years. I have been searching for a coffee place that sells the best coffee in the CBD for a very long time. I’ve finally found this place. The coffee is consistently amazing and with the best value too.

]]> http://www.melbournecoffeereview.com/2008/04/switch-board-cafe-mechantile-building-foyer-off-collins-street.html/comment-page-1#comment-6829 Anita Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:41:23 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~macbookone/mcr/?p=1082#comment-6829 The best part of my working day is walking down Collins street just before 8.30am to get an always amazing coffee at Switchboard. I don't even have to order and the guys there make my coffee just perfect. Definitely one of my favourite places to get a hot skinny latte. The best part of my working day is walking down Collins street just before 8.30am to get an always amazing coffee at Switchboard. I don’t even have to order and the guys there make my coffee just perfect. Definitely one of my favourite places to get a hot skinny latte.

]]> http://www.melbournecoffeereview.com/2008/04/switch-board-cafe-mechantile-building-foyer-off-collins-street.html/comment-page-1#comment-5420 Espresso Yourself: Melbourne’s Coffee Community | AFAR Blog Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:09:55 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~macbookone/mcr/?p=1082#comment-5420 The bedheaded baristas at Brother Baba Budan, a tiny café and specialty bean importer, serve up a latte so revered that the lines frequently stretch out to the sidewalk. The café—named for a 17th century Sufi who allegedly introduced coffee beans to India from Yemen—is deadly serious about its coffee, but has a playful approach to interior decorating, as witnessed by the dozens of wooden chairs dangling mysteriously from the ceiling. In keeping with the current coffee snob trends, many of the roasts here are medium, which they claim allows you to taste more of the bean and less of the burn of the roast. Order a flat white*, long black**, cappuccino, or latte from the day’s two choices of beans and then grab a seat at the communal table with hip twenty-somethings and wait patiently for your creamilicious treat to arrive. The food menu is limited to fresh-baked pastries in the small case by the register—the raspberry brioche is supreme. BBB is part of a community of cafes that have raised the coffee bar (ouch!) in Melbourne—other great finds a little farther afield include Balaclava’s Batch Espresso, Collingwood’s Proud Mary, and the extremely small and painfully cute café, Switchboard.

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