AUCTION ROOMS

103-107 Errol Street, North Melbourne; (03) 9326 7749 auctionroomscafe.com.au Open seven days for breakfast and lunch

All roads to brunch in North Melbourne lead to Auction Rooms, an industrial-chic café where the coffee (both single-origin and blends) has a backstory that you can breakfast on and is taken very seriously, indeed. The food is no slouch, either. Fight your way to a table for an all-day breakfast/brunch menu that keeps itself nice with cheffy touches on everything.

In the fish-finger sandwich, panko-crumbed barramundi saddles up with root-vegetable crisps, taramasalata and the traditional tartare sauce and iceberg lettuce. Toasted corn tortillas are topped with a chest-thumping combination of pulled pork shoulder, spicy salsa roja, cheese curd, black beans and fried egg. Can’t decide? Grab a breakfast board laden with good stuff such as grilled chorizo, smoked-trout rillettes and a boiled egg with soldiers, plus a green Super Smoothie.