The 18 Most Instagrammable Cafes In Melbourne

Location: South Melbourne

This café’s 71.3K Instagram follower count definitely speaks to its distinct ‘instagrammable’ quality. Aside from the building’s interior beauty—ideal for your Sunday morning gram—The Kettle Black also hosts a very unique menu, with dishes ranging from Raw Kingfish on Spelt Grain to Chocolate Polenta Porridge.

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Location: Melbourne CBD

Fifteen-metre high ceilings coupled with a spacious mezzanine favourably placed above the ever bustling ground floor, this café is Instagram heaven and the food’s not too bad either, offering a day, night and event menu for any occasion that you want to add to your social media catalogue.

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Location: Fitzroy, Hawthorn, CBD, Melbourne Central, Highpoint

This artisanal bread specialist has cafes in five different locations throughout Melbourne, and we’re glad for it. Homemade sourdough is enough to make our mouths water, but the interiors of their Melbourne Central establishment (pictured above) are what really caught our eye—and our iPhones’ camera lenses. The other locations are similarly picturesque.

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Location: South Yarra

This rustic cafe and events space, housed in the stables of a historic mansion, offers very photogenic baked goods and has a picnic option, so you can have your lunch to-go in the property’s gorgeous gardens.

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Location: Melbourne City and Port Melbourne

Aptly using the adjective ‘sensory’ in its title, this café will take you on a journey via your tastebuds, while the subdued, minimalist interiors (the Collins Street location looks like a futuristic American diner) will compliment your expertly brewed cup, making for a fantastic mid-week upload.

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Location: Hawthorn

The name Bawa is inspired by Geoffrey Bawa—a Sri Lankan architect who promulgated the concept of “tropical modernism”—inspiring the plant-based interior design features, which make this stunning Hawthorn café so very instragrammable.

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Location: Fitzroy

While Melbourne’s architectural style usually conjures images of grungy brick walls and warm industrial interiors, sometimes an outdoor moment is what you need for that midday boost, which is exactly what you’ll find at Grub Fitzroy. We’re sure that you’ll capture that perfect shot amongst the foliage in their famous greenhouse, too.

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Location: Ascot Vale

This café is the design product of the celebrated Melbourne-based studio Biasol, so suffice to say the bright, white design is what No.19 is known for, second only to their moreish menu.

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Location: Abbotsford

The name Kitty Burns is the result of the combination of the café’s creators Kitty Minogue and Alma Burns, but we’re mostly just thinking about how this river-side knockout combines nutritiously delicious food with vibrant interiors that will undoubtedly inspire your latest Instagram post.

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Location: Carlton

Unique dishes definitely make for ‘like’-heavy Instagram posts and satisfied customers, and Vertue Coffee Roasters’ Harissa Scramble or Tamarind Prawn Toast will definitely do both.

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Location: Fitzroy and Melbourne CBD

It’s no wonder that this Fitzroy-based café was the recipient of the UK International Café Award for the best designed café in 2014, because it’s almost hard to take a bad photo at this expertly designed open warehouse-style café set amongst in an urban, graffiti-laden neighbourhood.

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Location: Fitzroy

Fitzroy is known for its quintessentially grunge, industrial aesthetic and Bentwood is like the polished embodiment of this very instagrammable quality, while also offering plentiful natural light. Make sure to try the chia pudding while you are there.

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Location: Brunswick

This Brunswick-based café is pretty serious about coffee, but that certainly doesn’t mean they don’t care about interiors. The matte black walls against the polished concrete flooring gives the venue a degree of sophistication that we aspire to in all of our Instagram uploads.

Image: @codeblackcoffee