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Matcha

Earl Grey cloud matcha.

Tori’s

The second outpost for the Niagara Lane cafe.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The 12-tier honey cake (right) and choc-caramel mikado with 10 layers at Armenian bakery Tatik’s Delights.

Tatik’s Delights

Billed as Melbourne’s first Armenian bakery.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The appresso (apple juice and espresso) at Four Kilo Fish.

Four Kilo Fish

The Hawthorn cafe’s second outpost, pouring Chinese specialty coffee in the CBD.

Desserts are king.

Ease back into office life with 11 new city spots for lunch, coffee and afternoon treats

Beat the back-to-work blues with breaks centred on cake, bargain lunch plates, iced matcha and even icier coffee.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The matcha (green tea) is selected by Chayo’s tea sommelier.

Chayo

A sweet cafe here to fulfil your Japanese food cravings.

  • Dani Valent
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Berry matcha trifle.

Have your matcha and eat it too: Five green tea(time) treats to make this weekend

The bitterness of green tea helps offset the sweetness in these desserts and biscuits.

Add freshly shaved Kinglake Ferrier truffles to the triple cheese truffler toastie for $12 while they’re in season.

Golden Coffee & Toastie

Cheesy, grab-and-go toasties, alternative caffeinated drinks and more in Melbourne’s CBD.

  • Emily Holgate
Queues at Tanning Lemontea in Box Hill.

‘Cheese tea’, bubble and not a tea bag in sight: The new-wave tea shops worth queuing for

Specialty tea shops, many originating in Taiwan and China, have exploded in Australia in the last five years. What’s behind their popularity in a coffee-loving country?

  • Annie Hariharan
Inside Project Zero on King Street.

Project Zero

Hole-in-the-wall King Street cafe serving coffee, matcha, pastries and more.

  • Emma Breheny and Emily Holgate
Kinder Bueno, pistachio, Biscoff and traditional cinnamon scrolls at Sundays Bondi.

Worth the wait? Hundreds queue for scrolls at a tiny, unmarked bakery

For the past two weekends, the line on Bondi Road has snaked around the block. Good Food joined the queue to find out what makes Sundays so special.

  • Bianca Hrovat