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This venue is a finalist for best tea in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Assembly are tea and coffee specialists in Melbourne.
1 / 7Assembly are tea and coffee specialists in Melbourne.Eddie Jim
Coffee brewing.
2 / 7Coffee brewing.Eddie Jim
Inside the Carlton cafe.
3 / 7Inside the Carlton cafe.Eddie Jim
Filtered coffee at Assembly.
4 / 7Filtered coffee at Assembly.Eddie Jim
It’s a precise process for tea and coffee making at Assembly.
5 / 7It’s a precise process for tea and coffee making at Assembly.Luis Enrique Ascui
Coffee preparations.
6 / 7Coffee preparations.Eddie Jim
Inside the Carlton cafe.
7 / 7Inside the Carlton cafe.Photographic

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In a coffee-obsessed city, finding anywhere that serves more than five types of tea is exciting. This little Carlton cafe quietly showcases more than three times that number, spanning white to amber tea, selected carefully from renowned regions such as Yunnan and Kagoshima. Herbal tisanes are blended in-house, and beautiful servingware makes each sip an act of self-care.

Good to know: Assembly is equally serious about coffee, offering both tea and coffee subscriptions.

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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/melbourne-eating-out/assembly-20250528-p5m2zl.html