A Minor Place.

I love coffee and foood here so tasty and staff were attentive. Cozy and esthetic vibe cafe. I’m pretty sure I’ll visit here again.

Sometimes the coffee is great here but more often than not it is inconsistent. I received an insipid latte last week and was too rushed to call mment. Today i came with my mum and daughter. 2 meals came out, and over 10 mins later mum's waffles came. That meant both our meals (eggs) were cold by the time mum got hers. I intentionally ordered a double shot as the coffee is often weak & received a single shot. The barrista was pissed off remaking it. This is my local, i love the food, most of the staff and the vibe. But the coffee needs to improve. Best of luck.

A minor place is a cute little almost-hidden-away treasure on Albion street closer to the McDonald’s end than the Sydney road end. It’s a weather board house with no huge signage so it can be easy to miss (despite the throngs of people that head here.) The cafe seats about 30-40 people inside and about the same outside. There are heaters and under cover seating round the side while there is smaller table seating in front as well as perhaps about 5 outside bar seats. Ordering inside can get a little cramped as they’ve definitely used all their floor space to seat people. The food at A Minor Place is amazing. Well made, delicious, balanced dishes and extremely well presented. The coffee is equally as amazing. The blend is strong yet not over powering with smooth tastes. And almost always the coffee seems well prepared regardless of who makes it. My only complaint is sometimes the wait staff seem.... disinterested? Not rude per se but certainly not chirpy/happy/easy to deal with. They almost appear condescending. However, they’re polite and “nice”. If you could get some smiles out of all the wait staff instead of just one or two A Minor Place is easily a five star establishment.

Their mocha and iced coffee are good, but the matcha latte fails since i like strong matcha. Staffs are responsive and fast. The place feels homey.

This was great to work here. There is a large communal table with lots of people working. Coffee was great. The only thing I didn’t love was the heavy mugs with the very thick edge.

We had a lovely meal at A Minor Place this Sunday. We have come on and off for over two decades. The menu is just as good, if not better than when we started coming. This weekend, I had the Minor Brekky, my partner had the Okonomiyaki. Both were excellent - fresh, hot and delicious. Some tips for eating here on the weekend: It is super busy and there is often a line up between 10-11. Given current conditions I would recommend booking a table to reduce wait time. Also, as there are a lot of people waiting to be seated, the staff told us they would prefer us not to hang out and use laptops during a busy period. Be prepared to eat and go on a public holiday, Saturday or Sunday morning. There is also tons of seating but this means the staff are absolutely run off their feet. Be prepared to wait a little to receive your coffee and food orders.

Had such high hopes for this place, we are recent locals who just bought a place in the area and have wanted to try this place for a while now… a rainy Saturday morning seemed the perfect opportunity to try out our new local. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least memorable cafe experiences in Brunswick. - Oat Milk Cap 2/10 flavourless milk. A second attempt requesting a “strong cap” and it was worse than the first. - My partner said her Mocha tasted like hot chocolate so I guess they could benefit from changing their beans for something featuring less arabica a more robust flavour that cuts through the milk. - Salmon Croissant 3/10 sounded delicious, however the texture was like a day old bread roll and has to be one of the worst croissants I’ve ever had. Meh. Waste of calories. - Decided to try the Floss Brioche 2/10 as an afterthought given the disappointment of the Croissant and was left wondering who was running the kitchen. The delicious photo on Google maps featuring creamy saucy goodness was obviously some past creation that they no longer make - what arrived was a dry Brioche with a chunk of sweet flavourless confection icecream topped with Persian Floss and chopped dry /plain berries scattered around the edge on a very scant splash of caramel sauce which was stuck to the plate like a garnish. Dry and tasteless - Not even a splash of berry coulis to add flavour and moisture? Or perhaps a spoon of marscapone to make it a little moist? Sorry folks…. This is Brunswick. Literally amazing coffee on every corner and so much good food to compete with. Sub par food and uncomfortable bench seats with inadequately thin cushions and no backrest? I really can’t think of any reason to come back…

No! Where are all the wonderful wait staff? The mood was so sad! Please tell Me that it was just an off-day. This is a place where I come for brunch, lunch and inspiration. It is a meeting place of creatives and wonderful people. Service today was slow and jumbled. No familiar faces behind the counter and even the coffee wasn’t quite as perfect. Not you too Minor Place!!!

Excellent coffee blends with many options. Food is also really great. Lovely people there

Love this little local gem! I just moved to Melbourne and my housemate brought me here for breakfast as it's close to where we live in Brunswick. I have been a few times now, adopting it as my own favorite local. The food here is unreal, fantastic coffee and always greeted by the loveliest staff. The dukkah encrusted egg and chili mushroom dish is out of this world. Raspberry chocolate French toast is to die for and the smashed avo and fried haloumi toast is superb... You cannot go wrong with any choice on the menu.

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.

Absolute stand out place. The food was so fresh, really high quality ingredients showcased in their natural state with not too many flavours to overpower the simple goodness. I had the A Minor Breakfast and it was amazing. My flatmate had the pumpkin and goats cheese breakie and her quite if the day was "this is the meal I'd order on death row". The staff were super friendly, seated is straight away and our meal came out fast despite almost every seat in the place full. Thumbs up!

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 cafe 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 cafe, 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.

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.

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 cafe 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.

Yum Yum Yum! Best scrambled eggs I've had - I find I'm always comparing breakfast out to this place and it rarely meets the standard they've set.

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.

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.

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.

Consistently excellent coffee and food. A Brunswick institution!

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 !

Great atmosphere and good taste in music! The food and coffee were fantastic and the staff were super friendly!

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 cafe for me.

The banana bread is incredible. Put heaps of honey on it. Friendly service. Good wifi. Nice atmosphere.

Friendly, welcoming and comfortable place to meet for brunch or solo to eat, read n pass a morning away. The food is plentiful, tasty, and hip.

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.

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.

This is the coffee shop up the road for us and we really love it. The staff are really friendly and always very attentive, even if busy. Ive had just coffee here and also food. Its the local food place you wish you lived near. I had the veggie bagel and it was amazing. I wish i could eat breakfast here everyday. If you are lucky the spunky male waitor will sing to you too!! You must try the chai tea, served with milk and honey. To die for.

Fantastic service. Had multiple people asking if we needed anything and the food came out quick. Everything we ordered exceeded our expectations. The pancakes and chorizo scramble were out of this world.

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

super cute tiny cafe 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=)

Couldn't think of anything better than having breakfast here on a sunny sunday morning. Love the food, coffee and the service and the fact that It's just around the corner.

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