Espresso Hub

Service is quick and chef accommodating to variations.
Downside, eggs are not free range and have no flavour. Spiced apple porridge came without the apple.
Coffee is good.
It’s the building café so I’m sure I’ll be back again at some point for breakfast but no rush.
Daily coffees will continue.

I currently work in this building but generally don’t eat here — like to escape any chance of bumping into colleagues and having to tolerate work-​talk for my unpaid breaks! (A real team player, I am). Having said that, I grab the occasional toastie on the way up to my desk and it’s always decent.
It is open to the public, and you might get a chance to rub shoulders with familiar radio hosts, journalists or sports-​stars (who think they’re journalists), and they’ve also started running a juice bar on the building steps also in time for warmer weather with the nice plush lawn out front a popular space to soak up some rays (just be prepared to share it with backpackers and homeless people taking a nap).
On Fridays from about 3.30pm they do a ‘Full Stop Fridays’ with $ 5 Coronas, Crown Lager, and house wines, and either some great live music or some ipod-​DJ beats. It’s supposed to be just for ‘Media House’ staff but it’s not like there’s anyone checking swipe cards, so if you’re in the neighborhood looking for a cheap knock-​off drink I’m sure you can pop-​in.

Found within the glass walls of Australian newspaper The Age’s Collins Street home, Espresso Hub tries to be as the name implies — a hub. This is where people meet. Be it outside watching the traffic pass at a safe distance, in amongst. The dark wood furniture for more of a meal or a quick takeaway for those catching a train from Southern Cross Station but unwilling to settle for street vendor coffee.
The dub music playing adds a nice ambiance and covers the conversation that echoes against the flat surfaces. Sound travels well here. I’m sure I can hear a security door opening three floors up. Put the place is enchanting in a 2001: A Space Odyssey kind of way. The baguettes and Turkish breads the fruit salads all look tasty in a same same kind of way.
The coffee is great and a man ten years my senior called me Sir. Stranger things have happened, and if you’re after a new experience that is somehow a little unsettling with all the sounds of life passing you by, then defensively give this place a go.