The Melbourne flat white: a double ristretto shot with 150ml of stretched whole milk, served in a small ceramic cup with no froth art and no compromise; in Australia we have verified places to eat it in Melbourne. Start with where to eat Flat White in Melbourne.
Flat White · Melbourne
The Melbourne flat white: a double ristretto shot with 150ml of stretched whole milk, served in a small ceramic cup with no froth art and no compromise.
The flat white emerged in the 1980s in both Sydney and Auckland, with multiple competing origin claims. By the 1990s Melbourne had codified the format that now travels the world: a double ristretto for body, stretched (not foamed) milk at about 60 degrees Celsius, no froth dome, no latte art necessarily, served in a 160ml ceramic tulip cup. Patricia Coffee Brewers opened in 2011 behind 493-495 Little Bourke Street as a standing-room espresso bar and helped define the contemporary Melbourne idiom: short queue, fast pour, no sweetened drinks, leave fast. The cafe sources from Seven Seeds across the road.
Where to eat in Melbourne:
- Patricia Coffee Brewers
Where to eat Flat White in Melbourne: the editor picks