Start your day right at these newcomers serving brunch that flips the cafe script. July 23, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more.
Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Cafes that colour outside the lines aren’t in short supply in Melbourne, with many of the city’s most popular daytime-dining options stretching well beyond smashed avo. These three welcome new additions – from the CBD to Northcote – are no exception, weaving in flavours from their owners’ backgrounds to pull away from the pack.
Todo Good Coffee Bogota-born couple Santiago Villamizar and Carolina Talero have long been injecting their Colombian heritage into Melbourne’s cafe scene: they opened Fitzroy’s South American-style Sonido in 2010 and followed it up with Preston’s Arepa Days in 2018. Since 2019, they’ve been roasting their own Colombian coffee for both venues under the label Todo Good (“todo means all, so ‘all good’,” says Villamizar). And recently they opened a cafe of the same name – their third – in a cute corner spot in Northcote.
Doing the fit-out themselves, all burgundy tiles and pops of green, Villamizar and Talero started building a community of locals even before opening, and now the cafe heaves. “Instead of bread, we have arepas,” says Villamizar. The palm-sized cornbread pockets from Arepa Days come with fillings such as fried eggs, Istra bac.
