St Brews - Melbourne

This cafe is well spread out, with very comfortable seating. It is full of light and is quiet. I enjoyed a delicious chicken focaccia here and a good coffee. A sign of good service is how an organisation deals with disasters and mistakes. St Brews did this well. They forgot to make my coffee. I approached the counter to ask about it. They apologised, made me one on the spot, and refunded my money. Thank you. I will remember this.

My poached eggs were perfection but the service was quite slow (although friendly) and our coffees didn't arrive until AFTER our food.

I had lunch here with 2 of my friends. Waited half hour for 2 of the salads to come out then another 15 mins for my friend’s meal to finally arrived. She ordered the lamb dish and it came cold and she sent it back to the kitchen. They did apologize saying it is due to big lunch group. The rest of the food was average.

For my recent work going away lunch, i picked St. Brew because I had been there several times and always loved the food. Unfortunately the restaurant had undergone a recent change in management and it was very obvious! My group had to wait 2 hours to get our meals. Upon complaining more than once that we really needed to get back to the office, they gave our table a bowl of chips to apologise. When our food finally came out, the Superfood salad with grilled chicken, which I had ordered in the past, came out looking very different with a much smaller portion and fried chicken instead of grilled. It’s a shame to see such a great cafe go downhill.

St Brews has a very relaxed atmosphere, its great for people who want to do coffee catch ups/meetings to get out of the office. For such a busy space its actually fairly quiet, the staff are friendly and the food is great. The star attraction is the coffee, I go to a lot of cafes and St Brews is in the top 5 for coffee easily. Highly recommend if you work in the area!!