BEST BREAKFAST

King of the East Melbourne café scene, Persillade (persillade.com.au) pays homage to the great cricket nations with breakfast dishes such as kedgeree with smoked haddock and boiled egg, and corn fritters with Bombay salsa and yoghurt. Rev up your energy levels at Square & Compass (square andcompass.com.au) with a health-conscious menu of charcoal chia pudding and poke bowls, served in a reinvented terrace house. And you can’t go past Hard Pressed (hardpressedcoffee.com.au) for its obsessive menu of specialty coffee beans.