Coffee is delicious and I recommend the Avocado toast as well. Service is quick and efficient. A bit tricky to find as it's down a back alley way off the main street

Some of the best coffee in Melbourne, but you can now get the beans elsewhere as well - which is good, because this small cafe is almost always very packed, so not good if you're in a rush. Great food if you have time (and can get a table)

Popular brunch place - always try to get there early so we don't have to wait for a table. Their coffees always good. My favorite brunch item is the Koo Koo something- it's potato hash with mushroom and eggs.

Still at its peak I guess, the place tends to get crowded. Nice staff. Great food. The portion of the serving is fair and tastes good. Nice music to go with the hangout feels of the place. Just great. But I guess not the kind of place you'd want to go if you want to have a lax and quiet breakfast type of thing.

Approximate cost: $23

St Alli is a small little cafe tht is so amazing and cute i think its my favorite cafe honestly. I absoltely am in love with the coffees they rovide they are so nice

Approximate cost: $20

For a while St Ali seemed to be trading off its 'fame' with the same menu/little variation for several seasons, nonchalent staff and ridiculous service times. Recently, it seems to have taken a turn for the better. For a starters, there were less than a handful of things which I remember from 2 years back save the classic traditional items. Instead, we saw interesting items like Spicy black bean and chorizo stew with pulled pork, poached egg, aged feta and smoked jalapeños; Parsnip soup with parsnip crisps & toast; and Kimchi scrambled eggs with pan-fried scalloped, coriander, puffed rice and crispy shallots.

this is a wonderful coffee shop hidden away down a side street, it hums and buzzes with activity, the food is fresh and delicious the staff friendly and attentive. the coffee is sublime, it's not cheap however well worth it.

Great coffees every time. The cups they use are slightly smaller than the average cafe, but this means you aren't slurping a bucket of milk. The balance of milk/coffee is slightly stronger and in my opinion, better for it.
The soy chai lattes are also great, made with Melbourne's best chai by Calmer Sutra Tea (wet chai) and simply creams the dry chais and powders (yuck).

This cafe is housed inside an old warehouse in the back alleyways of South Melbourne. The management have retained the warehouse feel, leaving the raw exposed brickwork, exposed laminate flooring, warehouse metal shelves (some with food stocks for the cafe).
The atmosphere here is young, rugged, down to earth & eclectic. Large communal tables fill the majority of the space.
The menu is predominantly brunch items, with a few casual lunch options including salads, burgers, steak etc.
On our table, we ordered a granola ($14), full spanglish breakfast ($21.50), my mexican cousin ($21.50) & the daily salad special ($16.50).
The granola was perfect, packed with honey laced grains, nuts etc, along with a generous amount of berries and yoghurt. A very nicely thought up dish.
The full spanglish (essentially a full english) was generally. The eggs were cooked perfectly to the 63.63 method. The roasted tomatoes & mushrooms bore a intensified flavour due to the roasting but still retained some juiciness & bounce. The baked beans were a little disappointing however; white navy beans in a one-dimensional tomato sugo.
My mexican cousion is the name of the corn fritters at St Ali. We did not like this dish. To begin with the fritters were shaped like golf balls. Second, they were cooked to the extent of being completely brown (a shade short of being charred) on the outside. Third, the corn to batter ratio was around 1:3, they tasted more like corn muffins with bits of corn rather than corn fritters.
Similarly the salad was also a great disappointment. The menu reads in a manner which suggests that the chef makes a vegetarian salad using seasonal ingredients in the kitchen. When the salad came out, it looked like the chef had literally tipped some leftover vegetables on the plate. The salad was made of 3 ingredients, pieces of roasted zucchini, slices of raw zucchini & quinoa. Despite the simplicity of the salad however, their was no effort towards arrangement or presentation. There was little to no creativity and it looked like a mess on the plate.
St Ali, has its strengths, however these are greatly outweighed by its weaknesses. For a cafe with low overheads (location, low maintenance decor, lack of A/C, cafe standard table service, etc) and a comparatively high price point, St Ali fails to impress.

Approximate cost: $20

A really gorgeous cafe that produces excellent coffee & meals. We enjoyed our smoked salmon immensely & our coffee was rich and strong. Great friendly service...prices are a bit high though, but definitely worth it!