El Parche Coffee Roasters Cafe

you're on harding street in coburg, which isn't the part of melbourne that gets written about constantly, and that's probably why el parche coffee roasters cafe works the way it does. the neighbourhood pulls in people who actually live nearby, not foot traffic looking for a photo op. what el parche does is roast its own coffee and sell it directly from the same address, which means what ends up in your cup comes from people who made decisions at every stage of getting it there. that kind of ownership over the process tends to show. locals come back consistently, and in coburg that's not a given. if you've got a morning free, harding street on a weekday is a quieter way into it than most.