Code Black Coffee Roasters (Brunswick)

Category: Breakfast, Brunch


Location:  15/17 Weston Street, Brunswick VIC 3056


Cost: $$


J'Rate: ♥♥♥♥  



With the beginning of a new era in life, the cohesion of different people is bound to bring an insight of the greater depth of Melbourne. Saying that, yesterday, one of the girls I recently met decided to take me to lunch on one her familiar streets and with all trust, it didn’t disappoint.

Code Black Coffee situates isolated on a quiet street near Sydney Road and if without care, it could go unnoticed with its black on black painted exterior. It adopts a warehouse interior, refurbished with an edgy look, filled with black tables, hanging geometrically caged lights and space, lots and lots of space. Walking in, the aromatic atmosphere is filled with freshly brewed coffee, baked goods (something you don’t want to miss) and meals to die for. The waiter/ess there, are just as edgy as the entire cafe, almost like you’re in a bar in broad daylight but of course that’s nothing to worry about. Anyway did I mention the row of Harleys parked outside? When i said edgy, I mean edgy, not that that’s meant to turn you away, edgy is good.

Top Left: Spiced Pumpkin Salad
Brown Plate: Goji Berry Salad

One of the most significant thing about the cafe is their menu. The pricing is as per usual, cafe standards $13-23 but the listing is one of the most exotic bunch of dishes I’ve seen as of far. The menu may be a bit wordy as they detail their dish with care, but if the sound of coffee-infused eggs, coffee glazed bacon, quinoa pumpkin salad, goji berries, poached peach, coconut yoghurt or artichoke and zucchini fritters doesn’t sound fancy to you, I don’t know what else to say.

Between the table of three of us, we spent a solid 20 minutes tossing between dishes as everything sounded so good. The decision making process was extremely hard but in the end we ended up ordering the Coffee glazed bacon and coffee infused eggs sandwich, spiced pumpkin gorgonzola salad and a goji berry quinoa salad. The plates came out all at the same time which was convenient and as hoped, they were all equally as amazing.

Coffee infused fried eggs and coffee glazed bacon sandwich
 $17.90

I personally had the coffee infused fried eggs and bacon sandwich and it was nothing as I expected. The coffee flavouring was subtle, the bacon was thick and soft, almost like it was just pork and toast, grilled and spread with chive mascarpone was on point. It was served with a side of potato salad and that just topped it. For $17.90, it was a good feed. I had a taste of the two salads on the table also, and from past experience, quinoa salads had always been so bland but this one, changed everything. It was sweet and tangy and just brilliant. We also had thyme & potato hash brown as an addition to the salad dishes and I can't emphasise the need to try their hash browns. Whether you'd personally get hash browns at all is insignificant to this decision, try it, trust me you'll fall in love. 

Before we left, my friend who had been eyeing the range of baked desserts ended up getting a chocolate brownie to take away and it was honestly one of the greatest decision. We really thought it was just going to be like any other brownie, the average, the usual but I don’t know what it was about the brownie that made it better than everything I’ve tasted. It was moist but not fluffy and sticky, so, quite rigid in shape yet melts in your mouth with perfection. 

Overall, I think I have another favourite cafe!