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Via Porta

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Breakfast pastries at Via Porta cafe in Mont Albert.
1 / 8Breakfast pastries at Via Porta cafe in Mont Albert. Eddie Jim
Inside the Mont Albert cafe.
2 / 8Inside the Mont Albert cafe.Eddie Jim
Eggplant toastie.
3 / 8Eggplant toastie.Eddie Jim
Falafel salad.
4 / 8Falafel salad.Eddie Jim
Hot smoked salmon sandwich.
5 / 8Hot smoked salmon sandwich.Eddie Jim
Dessert for breakfast: French toast doughnut.
6 / 8Dessert for breakfast: French toast doughnut.Eddie Jim
Via Porta’s omelette.
7 / 8Via Porta’s omelette.Eddie Jim
The airy space.
8 / 8The airy space.Eddie Jim

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No one leaves here hungry, whether they’re sharing house-made croissants with their pup on the pocket-sized front patio, eating crumbed eggplant toasties in the chic vanilla-toned cafe, or holed up on the mezzanine at night with a bowl of spaghetti puttanesca. Brunch is king, and the undeniable favourite is the doorstop-sized French toast. Via Porta also has a Hawthorn bakery.

Good to know: Local parking inspectors ruthlessly enforce time limits. You’ve been warned.

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