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Industry Beans Chadstone.

Industry Beans

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Cold brew at Industry Beans.

Industry Beans

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

All matcha is whisked by hand.

Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025: Matcha & Specialty Drinks

From Mont Blancs to nom chompoo, here are some of our favourite cafe drinks beyond the flat white.

Industry Beans in Fitzroy.

Industry Beans

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Machi Machi

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

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Layered dark hot chocolate with baked crema Catalana custard and aniseed sugar.

Melbourne’s essential cafes for matcha and specialty drinks

From mont blancs to nom chompoo, here are some of our favourite cafe drinks beyond the flat white.

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Tea Republic

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Bubble tea.

Bubble Nini

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Oriental Jasmine tea is the specialty at Molly Tea.

Molly Tea

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Matcha latte and matcha muffin at Cre Asion, located in North Sydney (pictured) and Pyrmont.

Sydney’s essential cafes for matcha and specialty drinks

The boundary-pushing new-wave cafes transforming the way we think about tea and coffee.

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