Coffee News.

Lennox Street Local is preparing to open at 253 Lennox Street in Richmond, Melbourne, with a larger drinks offering from the team behind Butter Days. The planned Allpress coffee menu includes a mandarin-syrup Mont Blanc and cold brew with cacao husk syrup and hazelnut foam.

The café is expected to open in late October 2026, with a takeaway coffee window and more than 20 indoor seats. Butter Days pastries and croissant jaffles will accompany the drinks. Planned hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 7.30am–3pm; check the café’s announcement for a confirmed opening date before making the trip.

Melbourne Coffee Weekend brings more than 40 Australian and international roasters to Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne on 7–8 November 2026. Each ticket includes nine tasting tokens, letting visitors try filter coffees across the roaster line-up, alongside access to workshops and retail coffee.

It is a useful one-stop tasting weekend for anyone building a Melbourne coffee itinerary or looking beyond their usual beans. Sessions run from 8am to 4pm across both days, and the market setting makes it easy to pair a focused coffee visit with a wider CBD and Queen Victoria Market wander.

Cumbé has opened on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne, pairing Mexican tortas and coffeechata with espresso and batch brew from Market Lane and Seven Seeds. The new daytime cafe is built around Mexico City-style torta de chilaquiles, with house-made biscuits and pastries alongside its coffee programme.

Why it matters: Brunswick has plenty of food-first stops, but Cumbé gives the area a new, current cafe with two credible local roaster connections and a clear all-day reason to visit. It is a useful option when a coffee plan needs to work with a proper breakfast or lunch, particularly near the northern end of Sydney Road.

Allpress will hold its 2026 V60 Championship Sydney heat at La Marzocco in Botany, Sydney on 24 September, with tickets released on 4 September. The elimination-style pour-over competition gives brewers nine minutes to prepare, grind, brew and serve, with the Sydney winner progressing to the ANZ final in Melbourne.

Why it matters: this is a genuinely useful date for Sydney’s filter-coffee crowd, not a routine cafe promotion. It also links local brewers to a wider programme spanning Australia, Singapore and London, with regional winners travelling to Tokyo for the World Coffee Championship experience.

Slurps Up Melbourne will host its 2026 Best of Yemen auction tasting at Aunty Peg’s in Collingwood, Melbourne on Tuesday 8 September, pouring 33 coffees sourced and organised by Qima Coffee. The ticketed session is framed as a focused cupping rather than a general café event, giving drinkers a chance to compare a broad set of Yemeni lots in one sitting.

Why it matters: Aunty Peg’s remains one of Melbourne’s most useful places for serious coffee education, and a large-origin tasting is a more practical way to encounter Yemen’s varied modern quality landscape than a single limited release.

Good Measure will take over Single O’s Reservoir Street café in Surry Hills, Sydney on Sunday 13 September, bringing its Melbourne-born Mont Blanc and a short menu built around Single O’s Honduras Marcala. The one-day stop is the first date on Good Measure’s Australian tour, with limited bags of the collaboration coffee also planned for the counter.

Why it matters: this is a useful chance to try one of Melbourne’s most recognisable contemporary coffee drinks at a serious Sydney roaster, with the shared coffee giving the pop-up more substance than a standard guest shift.

Mada, the Melbourne coffee van known for Filipino ensaymadas and coffee, has turned into a permanent shop in Collingwood. Broadsheet included the opening in its August round-up of new cafes, bars and restaurants, describing a compact retail step for the previously mobile business.

Why it matters: A permanent address makes a small independent coffee operation easier to build into a Melbourne coffee walk. The move also adds a distinct bakery-and-coffee stop to Collingwood, rather than another generic all-day cafe, giving visitors a more specific reason to detour east of the CBD.

ST. ALi has launched a limited Star Wars collaboration at its South Melbourne, Melbourne cafe, with two themed coffee blends, signature drinks and collector pieces. The independent Melbourne roaster has built the programme around contrasting light and dark roast profiles, making it a tangible seasonal menu change rather than a generic branded announcement.

Why it matters: ST. ALi is already a useful stop on the city’s coffee map, and a short-run programme can be worthwhile when it changes what is actually in the cup. It gives readers a clear reason to check the South Melbourne cafe now, especially if they are interested in how established roasters translate a collaboration into coffee rather than merchandise alone.

Atelier Enso has joined Carlton, Melbourne, with World Coffee Championships judge and Q grader Alicia Feng using automated espresso and filter equipment as part of a deliberately barista-led coffee programme. The new cafe pairs Eversys machines, xBloom filter brewers and Link Bar milk systems with service designed to give staff more time with guests.

Why it matters: this is a specific Melbourne coffee proposition, not just another brunch opening. Readers interested in how serious cafes are testing automation without abandoning barista judgement have a tangible new stop to assess, particularly on a Carlton route where coffee and food destinations overlap closely.