All-day breakfast is the Melbourne cafe at its most useful: eggs and a benny at any hour, the coffee that has to be right, and a kitchen that does not stop at eleven. We ranked the inner-city cafes on their Curateria Score and on what diners keep saying across their most recent reviews, with chains and far suburbs left out. Here is where the plates land this month.
Top of the list is st.derby in Pascoe Vale, a 4.88 cafe with nearly fifteen hundred reviews that regulars call their go-to for the food, the service and the coffee, happy to customise an order without fuss, the housemade hash brown and the Hash Benny eggs benedict leading the plate. Miss Alex & Co in Elwood matches that 4.88 as the neighbourhood favourite, a chef-owned room where the chilli scramble and the omelette special come fast and the staff remember your name and your coffee.
Double Pour Cafe in Bentleigh runs a consistently strong coffee and a big-breakfast plate, with a focaccia al forno and a smashed avocado with beetroot hummus on a menu reviewers rate for value and generous portions. Galleon Cafe in St Kilda is the well-priced local institution, the Drunken Sailor big breakfast and the truffled eggs carried by a warm and welcoming room. Eliana Lulu near the city is the all-day all-rounder, a chilli scrambled eggs and Spanish breakfast cafe diners call an amazing brunch with great coffee and accommodating staff.
Fifty Acres in Richmond is the stylish one, a 4.9 room on chilli scrambled eggs and an avocado-and-dukkah plate where the coffee gets a clean rave and the chicken sandwich a louder one. Ample Cafe & Bar in North Melbourne scores a 4.92 on a salmon eggs benedict and a breakfast burger reviewers single out, an extensive menu in a spacious, comfortable room. Dutton Cafeteria by Tickled Pink near the city is the perfect-score curiosity, a car-showroom cafe that runs a wagyu beef toastie and a full benedict menu when the chef is on, with service reviewers happily recommend even on a nineteen-coffee order.
The list closes across the inner ring. Jack & Daisy in Pascoe Vale draws repeat visits for its breakfast bagels and Daisy's Favourite smashed-avo plate with coffee reviewers call amazing, Trend Cafe and Restaurant in Southbank is the all-day diner where the Turkish eggs and the chicken parma both get ordered and the regulars are loyal, Cafe Piccante in Fitzroy North is the 4.91 neighbourhood room on a ten-dollar egg-and-bacon muffin and a big breakfast that one diner calls the best coffee in the north, and The Quarter in the city rounds it out, a 4.4 room with more than two thousand reviews where the Quarter Benny with pork crackling and the gluten-free options keep a CBD crowd coming back.
Every plate here carries a Curateria Score built from its full review history, then re-weighted toward the most recent hundred reviews so the order reflects the place as it is now, not as it was two years ago. We hold the cohort to a tight inner-Melbourne radius, roughly 15km of the city, and we drop chains and franchises, so what is left reads as the genuine local order. We blend that quality score with how often and how recently diners are still talking about a place. The corpus is Victorian and scored by us. No AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic. The words are ours.
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All-day breakfast is the Melbourne cafe at its most useful: eggs and a benny at any hour, the coffee that has to be right, and a kitchen that does not stop at eleven. We ranked the inner-city cafes on their Curateria Score and on what diners keep saying across their most recent reviews, with chains and far suburbs left out. Here is where the plates land this month.
Top of the list is st.derby in Pascoe Vale, a 4.88 cafe with nearly fifteen hundred reviews that regulars call their go-to for the food, the service and the coffee, happy to customise an order without fuss, the housemade hash brown and the Hash Benny eggs benedict leading the plate. Miss Alex & Co in Elwood matches that 4.88 as the neighbourhood favourite, a chef-owned room where the chilli scramble and the omelette special come fast and the staff remember your name and your coffee.
Double Pour Cafe in Bentleigh runs a consistently strong coffee and a big-breakfast plate, with a focaccia al forno and a smashed avocado with beetroot hummus on a menu reviewers rate for value and generous portions. Galleon Cafe in St Kilda is the well-priced local institution, the Drunken Sailor big breakfast and the truffled eggs carried by a warm and welcoming room. Eliana Lulu near the city is the all-day all-rounder, a chilli scrambled eggs and Spanish breakfast cafe diners call an amazing brunch with great coffee and accommodating staff.
Fifty Acres in Richmond is the stylish one, a 4.9 room on chilli scrambled eggs and an avocado-and-dukkah plate where the coffee gets a clean rave and the chicken sandwich a louder one. Ample Cafe & Bar in North Melbourne scores a 4.92 on a salmon eggs benedict and a breakfast burger reviewers single out, an extensive menu in a spacious, comfortable room. Dutton Cafeteria by Tickled Pink near the city is the perfect-score curiosity, a car-showroom cafe that runs a wagyu beef toastie and a full benedict menu when the chef is on, with service reviewers happily recommend even on a nineteen-coffee order.
The list closes across the inner ring. Jack & Daisy in Pascoe Vale draws repeat visits for its breakfast bagels and Daisy's Favourite smashed-avo plate with coffee reviewers call amazing, Trend Cafe and Restaurant in Southbank is the all-day diner where the Turkish eggs and the chicken parma both get ordered and the regulars are loyal, Cafe Piccante in Fitzroy North is the 4.91 neighbourhood room on a ten-dollar egg-and-bacon muffin and a big breakfast that one diner calls the best coffee in the north, and The Quarter in the city rounds it out, a 4.4 room with more than two thousand reviews where the Quarter Benny with pork crackling and the gluten-free options keep a CBD crowd coming back.
Every plate here carries a Curateria Score built from its full review history, then re-weighted toward the most recent hundred reviews so the order reflects the place as it is now, not as it was two years ago. We hold the cohort to a tight inner-Melbourne radius, roughly 15km of the city, and we drop chains and franchises, so what is left reads as the genuine local order. We blend that quality score with how often and how recently diners are still talking about a place. The corpus is Victorian and scored by us. No AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic. The words are ours.
Explore more All Day Breakfast across Melbourne on Discover ->
Every venue here is ranked by its Curateria Score, a recent-review-weighted quality signal that leans on what diners are saying now, not years ago. Keep browsing Melbourne, sorted by Curateria Score, on Discover.
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