Dukes Coffee Roasters

They are both a great roaster and socially conscience as well. I have bought numerous bags of coffee from them ranging from light, medium to dark roasts and you really can taste the difference. In a city that has so many roasters, I am a repeat customer because they source directly from the farmers and know exactly where their coffee comes from and how it’s been treated. I respect that extra step and will gladly help fund that as a repeat customer.
They also have great treats to go with your coffee. They are very busy, but you can always find a chair during non-​peak hours.

Consistently good coffee, perfect temperature and roast. No bitterness and natural sweetness, I’ve never felt the need to add sugar to coffees from Dukes.

Best coffee this side of town. So many yummy treats to choose from to pair with your delicious coffee. Don’t let the line out the door deter you — they’ve got the perfect production line and you won’t be waiting too long.

Absolutely perfect in every way. And their espresso roast is worth every penny. Bought a bag and it’s delicious via Aeropress.

Best coffee in Melbourne I reckon. They make a soy latte with love. Their normal coffees are as good as it gets as well, as long as you like your coffee strong.
Very hipster crowd so prepare to pose while you wait… lol
Good selection of cakes and coffee and the style of the place is very architecturally cool.

After months of passing through flinders St I’ve been hoping to find fantastic coffee I could grab between train connections. Glad to say I finally found it! This place is short walk through the underpass from the station into flinders lane. Such a great choice of fantastic coffee and we’ve even started taking their beans home to drink their roast. I’ll be visiting again!

There are a few coffee shops I go out of my way to get to. Dukes is one of them! I come here on my way to work without fail. Couldn’t start my morning without these guys!
The coffee is great, the service is fast and there is always a bunch of cool magazines for me to have a peek through while I wait for my latte

Over 100 check-​ins, and maybe 300 visits… I can’t get enough of Dukes. Unilocal won’t let me check in twice in a morning!
They have updated their coffee machines so the UFO no longer adorns the counter; however they are now selling a Batch Brew for $ 3 a cup. Get it. Seriously, stop reading this review and head to Dukes. Like now… you will not regret it!
The staff are awesome, the pastries fresh, and their Batch Brew… oh the Batch Brew…
They do have other coffee as well: their long black and latte offerings are great also. Their Genmaicha is also fantastic if you are an avid tea drinker.

I went in today and got a latte. It was very good and the staff is quite nice. The pastries looked fantastic but did not try any.

Hidden in the busy laneway foot and vehicular traffic of Flinders Lane is Duke’s Coffee Roasters. The first thing that hits you when you enter the shop with just a coffee cup sign is the aromatic fragrance of Coffee Beans being roasted.
Whether you like a Macchiato or Caffe Latte or may be the humble Cappuccino, its like sipping a bit of heaven. Of all the times I have had coffee here (which is a lot of times), I have never had burnt milk or acidic coffee or too frothy. its always PERFECT.
If you want a coffee-​gasm lol this is the place to be.

Dukes is my favourite place to get a coffee when in the CBD & I can’t resist their peanut butter & chocolate chip cookies. There are some other amazing looking cakes and pastries also available but the cookies for me win every time!!!
They always seem to have a plethora of staff working & great team work in the making and serving of drinks, which sees the drinks being served fairly promptly even at peak times.

What am I missing? I went here excited to try some of Melbourne’s best coffee. Had a pourover for $ 6 per recommendation, and it was good, but very small and just didn’t blow me away. I really wanted to be. I’ll still give this place 4 stars, but it’s pretty close to 3 stars for me. I’d rather save my money and have a $ 1 coffee at 7 – 11. Not nearly as good, but ¹⁄₆ the price is pretty effing appealing.

Very impressive if you can find the place it’s a bit of the beaten track, once I arrived I was greeted by a really friendly barista that made me an exceptionally nice mochachino.
I love the way they have set the café up it has a really nice warm feeling to it which is refreshing, I only came in for a coffee but after seeing there menu I thought i would try the all day breakfast which had 2 poached eggs on toast, bacon, sausage & a side of pancakes which was superb.
The quality for the price was great I paid $ 15 for the breakfast & coffee a bargain in my book I’ve been to there other sister store on chapel st & prefer this venue.

Call it smart interior design and play on colours, but walking into Dukes from the fast pace of Melbourne’s CBD is like walking into a kind of oasis of calm. Even with the space fast filling up with morning coffee hunters, there was no yelling or impatient energy. Just calm and patient putners waiting for their morning hit.
I was lucky enough to stay within walking distance on my last visit to Melbourne, and found the coffee to be consistent, the staff respectful of the inability to be properly human until that first coffee of the day has been consumed and the space welcoming to stop, take a breath and collect your thoughts for the day.
Pro Tip: try the lamington shortbreads. Amazing.

Ah dukes coffee roasters in Melbourne; you are an interesting affair — bohemian atmosphere, really great coffee, however you certainly are charging the upper dollar for it…
Personally though no visit to Melbourne CBD is complete without a stop in here; I like the staffs lack of airs and have only had excellent coffee no matter how busy or the time of day.

One of my favoured places to stop by for a take away coffee in the city.
It’s always busy but I’ve found the staff to be friendly and quick without compromising quality.
With few seats on offer it’s more suited to take away or a quick espresso rather than long catch ups with friends over a large latte but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth a visit — especially if you can nab the table in the window for some serious people watching.

I’m glad I visited multiple times before reviewing.
The layout is beautiful. They’ve taken a fairly small space and used it brilliantly. Bench seating down one side allows people to take away order without feeling crammed and there’s two small tables by the window if you’re lucky where you can sit and watch the world go by.
First time I walked in expecting the same standard of coffee I’ve had at the original Dukes on Chapel Street. I ordered an espresso and a batch brew. Crema was broken on the espresso, thin, over-​extracted, no character. The batch brew was completely off the mark; thin, watery, had a spent/​old taste to it similar to what happens when I brew coffee at home then take it to work, forget to drink it for two hours, then reheat it. 3 days earlier I’d enjoyed the same coffee on Chapel St; no comparison.
The next time was better and the quality mirrored their larger namesake.
Even when Duke’s wasn’t really on during my first visit they still had the regular tourist traps on Degraves comfortably covered. A really welcome additional to this pocket of town.

Love it. Hidden away and cute. Beautifully designed. Lovely timber bar stools and gorgeous floor!
Excellent range of treats and of course amazing coffee and tea.
Staff are delightful, helpful & knowledgeable.
Selling all sorts of coffee paraphernalia.
If you love Dukes in Chapel St, you’ll love this one, too!
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Ladies and gents, let me expound ever so briefly on a phenomenon I like to call «Nerdification of the Bean.» Brew chasers know what I am talking about. It seems that the hip and cool thing to do these days is proclaim yourself a coffee brewing Urkel: to deck out a shop with high-​end espresso machines, scales and glass beakers; to don lab coats and throw around fancy terms like «distillation»; and call oneself a scientist in the chase for the perfect brew. Some even tout their credentials in their name (e.g., Sensory Lab in the David Jones).
Don’t get me wrong. Surely, there’s a time and place for this kind of endeavor, and I, for one, applaud and support the application of scientific rigor to the pursuit of coffee perfection. But sterility can displace warmth; and the mechanization of process has a tendency to sunder art from craft. The top of Mount Olympus can be a lonely place.
Dukes is a happy medium between two extremes — the exacting lab behind glass and steel, and the plodding street café that serves its coffee only one way (burnt). They’ve got the Mistral oddity from outer space and the weighing scale, but with offsetting wooden cabinet finishes and an inviting teal façade. Is the one coffee I had here (a soy cap, $ 4.50; customarily served with a double shot, but still pricey) the best I’ve ever had? No. It was adequate — bordering on good, even. Smooth and mellow. But in some ways, that misses the point. On a blustery morning, I sought refuge from the cold. That I found what I was looking for inside Dukes says as much about the café environs as it does about the coffee Dukes serves.
Open Saturdays too ( Unilocal’s hours above are incorrect).

Hooray!
Even more great coffee in the CBD!
I love the painted floor tiles, the light wooden counters and the sweet window seats. With more than half the floor taken up by prep counters and coffee machines, the focus is more on stopping in for a quick standing or takeaway coffee, rather than sitting for multiple hours talking. That said, there’s a few high chairs and one very cute booth made for two that suits those wanting to rest a little while they get their caffeine fix.