Fresh food conveniently located in the local shopping centre. Fast and great service who are…read moreattentive throughout. Good for a coffee or a full menu breakfast or lunch. Great cafe!

The best coffee and very nice stuff highly recommendread more

$3 batch brew, great location, friendly staff, and their $3 batch brew (!)…read more Great new little space at the end of the busy 'food-laneway' entering into Melbourne Central from Swanston St, this Standing Room boasts a quirky layout with lots of wood and warmth, shiny new La Marzocco machines, and a small display of sweet and sticky pastries up the front. Their coffee is great, from the $3 batch brew (heh) to your bog-standard latte, you can't really go wrong. Good coffee for the masses. (Did I also mention their great $3 batch brew?!)

All I can say is that the name of this coffee shop pretty much sums the place up - there is really…read moreonly standing room in here. Anyway this is basically a coffee shop, nothing more, nothing less. In fact it is one of those places where you grab your coffee and you go, there isn't any place here for you to be able to sit down. You can get a bite to eat as well, but their selection is rather small since it is predominately a coffee shop, and a coffee shop that sells coffee for you to take away. As for the coffee, it depends of what you like - it basically has a bitter taste to it, which some people like, and others don't. Also, they tend to be pretty small, which is the case with a lot of coffee shops around Melbourne. It's okay, but not fantastic.

I loved this place when I was in downtown melbourne. Coffee was yummyyy and breakfast was…read moredelivious, good portion size. Plus its like in the middle so you get a view of the city also. Service was fast and easy. Def recommend

Coffee is average on a Saturday morning. Great location and…read morechoice of outdoor seating. Food is ok.

New found place as I went out lunch for colleague birthday…read more Love their atmosphere, food was pre-order so it is pretty quick. Love the scramble eggs on toast with mushroom. The mushrooms is definitely better value than in St Brew.

There's no lack of options for coffee at Collins square, however this is the best in my opinion…read more The coffee is consistent and the team do a great job of remembering your name and coffee order once you've been a few times. If you like a treat with your coffee there's plenty of sweet or savory items to choose from in the morning.

Super cute cafe but coffee wasn't the best, fresh chai was delish lots of yummy stuff to eat but…read morenot many seats Cute cups

I jumped off the train at Blackburn for some random reason and immediately saw this place across…read morethe road, so I decided to check it out. A part of me thought that I might have been a little to far out from the city to find a hip coffee bar, but it turned out that I wasn't because this place pretty much delivered. The staff were friendly, and the coffee was pretty good. It seems to be one of those places that people visit before catching the train, as opposed to when they arrive in the city. However, as a coffee spot, it's pretty cool, and certainly worth checking out.

I called into Kofi Beans to grab a takeaway large flat white coffee, the décor is really…read moreinteresting, the service was very friendly and the coffee was really nice. They have a really nice selection of food on their menu including vegan options and I have enjoyed coming here occasionally to eat in over the last few years.

Fast and friendly service; wish they stayed open later on Sundays.read more

This is my third time here and like a previous reviewer, again I have found the coffee 'bitter'…read morerather than robust. The seating is comfortable and the decor provincial, so if it's ambience you're after; first thing on a Monday morning you'll certainly get it....but for coffee that represents the 'culture' that Melbourne is renowned for, it again misses the mark. On the other hand, the banana bread toasted I am more than happy to recommend; the butter is warmed so that one doesn't 'rip' the bread apart trying to spread it on. Three out of five ain't too bad for this place. The staff I think could try to be more friendly, but it is Monday morning, so maybe a slight concession can be given in that case. Consider Jasper Coffee for the 'occasion' not the 'taste'.

Jasper coffee is a café located in Chadstone Shopping Center, The front of this open store has…read morebucket-fulls of different coffee beans from all over the world available for purchase on a weight basis. Aside from being a lovely little café, this place also sells a few items such as tea sets, keep cups, novelty mugs, coffee plungers/strainers and other hot beverage accessories. The first time I came here I ordered a hot chocolate with a lemon & sugar crepe. The crepe was great, sweet and tasty- the hot chocolate was not. They go on about using some special fair-trade organic chocolate or something, but I just wanted a normal hot chocolate. This drink was pretty bad, to the point I just left it half full. It was bitter and just tasted like someone added milk to grounded cocoa. My sister got the ice chocolate (which looked amazing), but was just as bad. I would come back for the coffee (which was fine) and the crepes, but never the hot choc.

Well, we went for a bit more of a wander to find some more places to have a coffee, though my mate…read moreisn't a huge coffee drinker, at least when he isn't at home. We decided to come here, and I must say that I was pretty impressed. The coffee was actually pretty good, and the service wasn't all that bad either. I ended up only having a coffee, namely because there didn't seem to be much space to sit down inside, with restrictions and all, but it was still a pretty good place to check out.

VINTAGE AND RETRO BOOKS (At home feel) SEPT 23RD 2016 1:30PM…read more I once knew a collector back in the US that had a vast majority of vintage books from a long time ago till now. All of which were printed with a very stiff cover and harboured a glosses illustrated tint to them. Some of you reading this might recall such examples like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys or Jack London's "Call of the Wild" the first fascination to me was the menus in Batches, as they took vintage. Retro styled books and pasted the menu inside them. Curiously, one might be compelled to even start reading them. But its all together a magnificent intrigue of it own and adds character too Batches. There is a sparkling celery tonic drink in the non-alcoholic category of the menu. And as my close friend had remarked its rather refreshing and not too sweet. She would recommend it! She recommends the dish she had also as just and perfect for anytime hunger. Poached eggs over Hash. My dish was the scrambled eggs with sourdough toast And side of spicy baked beans! I have to admit I looked at the other tips and reviews of this place and they were right about getting an egg plate if your not sure cause it was soo filling. And soo perfect for the appitite I did have. One thing that took the .5 away from them was the size of my iced coffee. I'd rather not get into too much detail, but a mouse wouldn't be satisfied with that either... (Sorry no picture of it cause it was that embarrassing) Although I must admit; Prior to receiving the drink at my table I thought it great the server asked if I wanted it over ice cream or just milk. Most places I've already been to here in Melbourne assume- ice cream unless you say otherwise. If it was taller and little larger then a water glass then I would have given them full 5stars. The novelty of Batches is its "homestead" feel and a go to Grandma's home and read book feel!! Get full and come back again! Loved it!!