Overview
Code Black Coffee knows how to cafe. Each of its six sites serve some of the city's best breakfasts and cups of joe, plus the sleek warehouse design in its larger Brunswick and North Melbourne venues is oh so Melbourne.
The team is conquering the city, one cup of coffee and eggs benny at a time, and it shows no signs of slowing down. That was made especially when it opened its seventh outpost on Flinders Lane in mid-2024.
Here, the team is pumping out the types of dishes that have seen Code Black assume a rightful claim to being one of the very best places for breakfast in Melbourne. On the menu, you might find dishes like baked eggs with truffled white beans, smoked ham hock and parmigiano; milk bread mille foglie with poached rhubarb and pistachios brought together with a burnt butter mascarpone; and house-made soda bread topped with seasonal mushrooms, whipped buffalo ricotta, crispy onions and chimichurri.
Of course, coffee is a also huge feature at the new Flinders Lane spot. Expect your usual milky options and on-tap batch brews as well as coffee flights and caffeine-infused cocktails — both boozy and non-alcoholic.
Code Black's more unusual zero-proof bevs include an espresso martini with Vegemite syrup, as well as one featuring lemongrass, anise syrup and earl grey tea, and the Morning Bar Coco that sees cold filter coffee given a lift by rooibos tea, coconut water and cream.
You've also got two vodka-based espresso martinis, an alcoholic coffee negroni and a bunch of other caffeinated sips spiked with booze. If you're keen to explore a lot of this menu, you might want to get a few with decaf.
The space, designed by We are Humble (Kaiju Cantina, No. 100 Flinders Lane, CoConspirators Brewpub, Ruby Dining and Good Measure), feels a lot more like a cocktail lounge than a cafe, which will make more sense once the team opens for nighttime trade. It's painted in the cafe's signature black all over, decked out with leather upholstery and dimly lit throughout.
Melbourne's already got some stellar CBD breakfast spots, but there's always room for more — especially when they're also open on weekends like Code Black Coffee's Morning Bar.
