Velvet Bean Albert Road Cafe

Best Known For

Slow-cooked lamb risotto with spinach, tomato, green peas, capsicum, chilli, tomato sugo and aged Parmesan.

Discover a place to escape the ordinary and connect at Velvet Bean café on Albert Road in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Find your home away from home at this warm and inviting cafe where flavour and ambience blend together to create the ideal spot to linger over an aromatic coffee and plates like corn, pea, zucchini and jalapeño fritters with poached egg, cumin yoghurt, tomato relish, za’atar, barberries and Asian salad. Burger lovers chow down on Korean spiced chicken with fried egg, lettuce, tomato, hot sauce and cheese; or wrap your hands around a steak sandwich with caramelised onion, lettuce, tomato and garlic aioli. Perhaps a Velvet Bean poké bowl hits the mark, with purple rice, smoked salmon, edamame, beetroot hummus, pickled ginger, avocado, poached egg and toasted sesame seeds.