A Minor Place

Cannot go wrong with this cute little place. Friendly, laid back service and delicious Wide open road coffee. We need more café’s like this in melbourne :)

Stuck in a weird spot on Albion Street, A Minor Place never fails to disappoint with its delicious coffee and interesting menu. As a vegan I go to Henry’s White Beans, which is probably the best vegan breakfast around, and their Bircher Muesli is tantalising. Do yourself a favour, and find this hidden gem and make it your local weekend spot.

Very much a blink and you’ll miss it, kind of place, A minor place is definitely off the radar, almost with nothing else around it, in the middle of suburban Brunswick. Strangely enough it’s located on quite an aggressive street for traffic, with busy bus lanes and many cars that seem to be trying to set speed records. Eating here is essentially eating in someone-else’s house. It’s a converted house, replete with a veranda, and other homely touches. It’s a nice calm homely place to eat. The wagyu burger is great, and the chilli scrambled eggs look pretty darn appealing too. Service is great, very attentive and friendly staff.

Always a pleasure to go to this local. Great coffee food and friendly service. Also, food on till 4 which is great for shift workers. I understand that A Minor place has been around for a while and I understand why. Keep it up guys !

A good reliable place for breakfast. After quite a few visits I think the Harissa scrambled eggs are my favourite. The coffee is good but there is better near by. Service always very good and friendly even when busy which they often are.
If the coffee was better it would be a 5 star café for me.

Had the most delicious berry pancakes here. I think we timed out arrival well & grabbed one of he last outdoor tables. And sitting on milk crates was surprisingly comfy, with cushions of course! Service was friendly, coffee was great & I’d like to return to try some other menu items. My partner had the Henry’s white beans, I had a taste of these, yum! Then I demolished my pancakes.

I come here frequently for a late breakfast and it is consistently delicious.
Coffee is always great and the staff are super friendly. I love the New York bagel in particular.
The only issue I have is that the menu hasn’t changed in the entire time I’ve been visiting so I rely on the specials for something new and tasty.

This place is cosy and has been a regular for a few years now. Their food if always fresh and delicious. But as of late I’ve been disappointed with their coffee. Weak strength, coffee was quite cold and not what I was hoping for on my Saturday morning. I hope it’s better next time.

Haven’t been here for a while. The place still has a nice vibe and the coffee was lovely. The corn fritters were very underwhelming though. Soggy and doughy with too much sauce and too much raw chopped onion (salsa) on top. Someone nearby added a side of bacon and avocado. I think that would have made it better. I would definitely come back again, but I’d try something different.

super cute tiny café with front street seating and tiny front porch bar type seating.
it’s hidden away in bunswick area so you have to know about it, but looks like lots of people do since it was packed on monday morning.
they have good selection of coffees and teas and coffees come prepped with latte art. love it.
I didn’t order breakfast myself but seeing what orders were passing by me the food looked delicious. next time=)

A Minor Place make some of the best coffee this side of Sydney Road. Lovely strong latte and just hot enough.

I love this place. The coffee in particular is amazing. They also have free wifi, which I’m using at this very moment to write this review. With such great ambiance and a solid playlist in the background it’s a wonder people ever leave!
As for the food– man it’s good. The homemade pancakes with caramelized bananas and maple mascarpone is decadent to the point of inducing diabetes, and the special I had on my last visit — scrambled Harissa eggs with chorizo and spinach on sourdough — was spicy and delicious.
For those who’ve been, this place would feel right at home in the Mission in San Fran, which is my favorite foodie neighborhood in the whole world, and I don’t think I can bestow a greater compliment than that.

A Minor Place is definitely one that ticks many boxes.
Smooth coffee, plenty of breakfast options (although my only gripe is that a lot of the savoury dishes seemed too similar…), friendly staff and great outdoor seating areas for a sunny Saturday brunch.
I had the Bubble and Squeak which absolutely hit the spot for this slightly hungover punter — egg sunny side up resting on potato rosti, which is all supported by a bed of cabbage, fresh peas, chorizo and Otway bacon with a hint of mustard. Delicious.

Consistently excellent coffee and food. A Brunswick institution!

I really enjoy cafes that appear off the beaten track like this one.
The alfresco area offers ‘hipster’ dining using milk crates as chairs, but the interior is bright and cosy through its use of earthy undertones and wooden panels.
The menu is simple and offers an array of delicious free-​range and organic options, not to mention it’s super cheap — Like seriously!
The coffee is spot-​on and service always comes with a smile.
It’s a great café if you’re on a budget, but don’t want to sacrifice on quality or ambience.

On a recent weekend jaunt to what we consider to be the top end of Melbourne i.e. the end of Lygon Street, we took the opportunity to visit a place that I have heard much about but due to the distance have never been in it neighbourhood. This may also be due to the fact that the location is actually smack bang in the middle of a quiet residential street in Brunswick. Such a quaint little place is a perfect fit for those on the way to work and want to pick up a coffee and breakfast at the start of their journey.
Despite looking quite small, they have utilised their space to great effect. Inside are the usual tables and chair setup — but outside they have made good use of the balcony which overlooks the footpath and the side of the building also accommodates those that trust in mebourne weather.
The menu is a small but solid list of Melbourne brunch favourites but with a good mix of New York (bagels) and Mexican (quesadilla) twists to give it some flair. As we were doing 3 brunch places (the things a foodie must do…) that day we tried to go quite light on the food to give us an indication whether it was worth coming back to. The coffee was well above what I was expecting — which was due to their own roasted coffee beans — which was a mix of Bazilian, Costa Rican, Etheopian and Kenyan beans. This mix, names Bathysphere are roasted just down the road at Wide Open Road.
The food was kicked its own goals with WordMonkey deciding on The Mumbler — Poached eggs on toast with pesto, fetta, spinich, fresh tomato & dukka. This really came into its own with the pesto tatsing so fresh it was as if they had scooped it from the mortar and pestle straight onto the toast.
The chipotle mayo on the B.L.A.T was the selling point for me to give this old favourite a try. But it was a hard choice when you throw a steak and a chicken sandwich into the array of options I could have easily ordered. The sandwich was constructed well so that when you lifted it up to take a bite, there wasn’t any filling falling by the wayside and the juices were absorbed by the bread and not the cuffs of my jumper.
Even thought the service was sporadic — they do have to cover a number of sections not usually in use in other cafes — I will be coming back to sample a few other dished on the menu. It seems like Melbourne Gastronome’s meal didn’t hit the standard she was expecting in 2009, but it looks as if it’s rolled with the punches and is kicking on in its own corner of the world.

I have a major crush on A Minor Place. A residential cottage turned milk-​bar turned oft-​slated-​for-​its-​service little café that takes its name from a line in a Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy song.
Located on the corner of one of the back streets of Brunswick, at a Minor Place you’ll find patrons sitting on milk crates in a nod to its erstwhile status as a milk bar and a positively lengthy breakfast and lunch menu on offer taking in Melbourne classics such as smashed avocado on sourdough alongside more unusual fare.
A decidedly sleepy little café, A Minor Place’s coffee is particularly good and I’ve not experienced this awfully lax service that everyone seems to harp on about. That said, I’ve tended to patronise this place on a lazy Sunday afternoon and have found it relaxing, charming and very sweet.

Brunswick is well known for its artsy, so-alternative-they’re-almost-mainstream types and A Minor Place has more than a few of these crew on a typical day.
Not that that’s a bad thing, far from it! With a chilled vibe and plenty of outdoor seating, most of which is on old milk crates, it’s a great example of what Melbourne does so well — the independent coffee shop that has sprung from nowhere.
Always busy, even for a weekday afternoon, the coffee here is divine as were the poached eggs I had while the service is super-​friendly.
It’s a little bit off the beaten track between the upper ends of Sydney Rd and Lygon St so there’s plenty of able competitors around but it’s definitely worth a look in if you’re in the area.

Assumedly named after the Will Oldham song of the same name, this place is hip. It’s basically a converted weatherboard house on Albion Street in Brunswick. They exist on the principles of good coffee paired with good food and relaxed atmos equals good café vibes.
Albion Street can be a bit of a racetrack, so you can get extra excitement watching the idiots hurtle towards each other through the chicanes while you’re sipping your latte. The food is generous and reasonably priced if a little patchwork. A favourite is the BLT, which they offer up for around a tenner and is sure to fill any stomach hole. The corn fritters aren’t as good as my dad’s, but y’know, that’s a difficult act to follow.
Any gripe with the place centres around wait times, especially on weekends. My tip is to take the paper, be cool, be OK with a bit of a wait and you will be rewarded.

What was once a milkbar in days of old Melbourne now stands as a Brunswick place to be. With hipsters a-​plenty — all ironic sweaters and fixed gear bicycles — the best time to grab a bite is middle of a weekday, weekends get quite crazy. Takeaway coffees are glorious, and there is a fine selection of medium sided meals and smaller bagelesque pieces for the light eaters. I recommend the beans — simple enough to never get wrong and the avocado grapefruit smash is also a winner.
Inside with cool tunes or a lovely shaded area to see the street yet free from traffic, this is the perfect place to waste a morning, meal or afternoon. Buyer beware, bikes stack up as do young mums abs prams.