CM&Co. Café - Roasters

the filter coffee here is worth slowing down for, especially if you're used to rushing through the cbd on your way somewhere else. cm&co sits on lonsdale street, which puts it right in the thick of melbourne's mid-city grid, close enough to the law courts and the rmit buildings that the foot traffic shifts depending on the hour. they roast their own coffee, which means what ends up in your cup has a shorter, more accountable chain behind it than most places in the area. you get that kind of consistency when the roasting and the brewing happen under the same roof. locals keep coming back, and that's not nothing in a city where the options are genuinely relentless. if you're in the neighbourhood mid-morning, the espresso-based drinks are the obvious call on lonsdale st.