The Foodstore Cafe

One of the best locals in Melbourne. Yummy food, evolving menu, adaptable to the times. Keep up the great work guys. Doing great!:)

I used to grab a piece of their homemade carrot cake a customised wrap (because Im really annoying like that) + an almond latte 2-3 times a week. So good! Also, so bad for my wallet and hips, boo: (

These guys also serve an all day brunch plus wholesome salads and burgers for lunch and more.

You can sit outside and enjoy a homemade cake with a the best coffee.

There is always service with a smile here.

Fantastic cafe, coffee is beautiful and the chai lattes are the best!
Food is just amazing.
Everyone that works there is bright and happy and if you’re a regular customer they remember your coffee order!
Very clean and comfortable cafe with easy parking.
Child friendly too

Great food and coffee I 100% recommend this place also beautiful people all friendly and respectful

The staff are so friendly! I was so indecisive and they helped me work out what I felt like. Food is so yummy and there's heaps of variety

Because I'm wearing a dirty pants due to painting renovation just a block from here, the service was like for a homeless asking for free food.
Come on mate I got enough to buy my food: (: (

We get catering from the Foodstore Cafe regularly for corporate functions. They never fail to disappoint. Delicious, well priced food with excellent customer service. Thank you.

Been coming to these guys for a few years now and they make great coffee - quickly too - and love a chat about sport. Everything I need of a morning. Sadly not coming past as much any more but these guys know what makes a great customer experience.

Working in Hawthorn looking for Coffee and Breakfast and they nailed it. Best Coffee in Melbourne and Great Guys… Go Carlton

Excellent healthy choices for brunch and lunch. Alot of middle eastern flare. Extremely family friendly cafe and closeby to the parks and playground. Staff were extra friendly! Will bring the mob to this cafe again! Top notch!

Amazing food, friendly staff and relaxed aesthetic.
I'm a vegetarian and absolutely loved the mushroom toast.

Cute suburban cafe in Hawthorn nicely laid out so you don't feel like you're top of the next table. Greeting us when we walked in is a long counter with yummy looking pre-made wraps and sweet treats. There's a couple of booths for small groups plus some seating outside where you can sit in the shade and enjoy a coffee with your fury friends. We loved the great local vibe inside and you can tell that the owners and chefs have a real love for what they're creating here.

They're serving up an all day menu with middle Eastern influences and a touch of F45! (the chef follows the F45 menu). The menu is largely skewed towards brunch dishes and focuses on good quality, fresh ingredients and great coffee.

All your favourite brekkies are represented with options including organic açai protein bowl; toasted buckwheat Bircher; smashed avo with chilli pickle and crispy quinoa; Salmon Benny; and the big 'Foodstore Breakfast' with the lot.

They have a few options that are gluten and dairy free and they can make almost any dish vegan on request. This isn't mentioned on their current menu so I just wanted to call this out for our vegan friends:)

An awesome addition to the Hawthorn cafe seen with great food and coffee, a warm family welcoming from the staff and great coffee. We love that they're currently the only spot around opening at 6am servicing the early bird tradie crowd.

We caught a sneak peak at the exciting changes for the menu in the new year - it's getting a complete shake up with loads of vegan friendly dishes and we can't wait to come back to try these!

4.6

We adored Foodstore Cafe. There’s so much to admire here. Beautiful food, great coffee, lovely friendly service and a nice aspect. It’s a great cafe.

We were greeted with lovely smiles on arrival. After being seated we were presented with the comprehensive and varied menu which offers plenty of flavoursome options. Two things are immediately obvious. First, the excellent specials. There are some wonderful dishes. Second, the abundance of healthy choices. Basically, it’s a cinch to eat well here.

We began with delicious rich smoothies. These are thick, tasty and very nicely composed. We tried the Acai smoothie and the breakfast smoothie with banana and berries. While they were both superb, the breakfast smoothie struck us particularly as top class. It’s fantastic.

The world’s most beautiful woman selected the Mushroom Toast from the specials for her meal. She beat me to it. We’d both read about this dish and were both keen to try it. It’s a fantastic dish. It’s composed of toasted garlic thyme mushroom with mixed nuts, spiced cauliflower, goat fetta, cherry tomato, hummus on toast with poached egg. Everything works in this dish. It looks really good, it has beautiful flavours and lovely textures as well. There is a delicate understated middle eastern taste to the dish which comes from a combination of herbs and spices we were advised later. It gives the dish impressive substance. Of all things too, we loved the finely chopped nuts in this dish. Overall this really is a lovely dish that is highly recommended.

I chose the Brisket Benny as my meal.
This is a real cracker too. It is slow cooked smoked pulled beef brisket on sourdough, poached eggs, crackling bacon and apple crisp. The presentation, flavours and textures in this dish are excellent. The brisket was tender, full of flavour and just perfectly cooked. The shredded smoked bacon on the rim was both pretty and delicious. The bread too was pure quality and, pleasingly, there were two slices not one as I’ve been given in other places lately and been left a little hungry as a result afterwards. The eggs were done superbly with a covering of lovely hollandaise. Again, this dish is a winner and easily recommended.

These dishes made for two excellent brunch dishes. They’re a very good size and for $18 only each they’re fantastic value compared with some other places we’ve eaten at lately. We both commented that they represent serious value for money given the size and quality of the fare.

Sadly, we were too full to consider dessert and it was down to coffees to finish. The coffee was an Ethiopian bean that had just arrived in store. These are formidable coffee beans. My long black and my partner’s flat white were outstanding and were very skillfully made. This is coffee and coffee making of an impressively high order.

I forgot to mention the decor here. It’s very pleasant and the space is both stylish, pleasant and comfortable. It’s a lovely spot to be.

We had a wonderful time here. I found myself wishing about three times during our visit that this was our local cafe that we could walk to whenever we wanted. It’s not though and that’s life. How fortunate are the locals here. This is definitely the sort of cafe that’s worth travelling to. All quality and a really rewarding experience. There’s easy parking just outside.

Thanks so much for the kind invitation to dine here. Our particular thanks to Ahmed and Carl and the other staff, including the knowledgeable and skillful chef who were lucky enough to talk to. Our thanks to the amazing Vela for her hard work in making this happen.

Highly recommended.

Located on busy Auburn Road, the FoodStore Cafe is frequented by locals, university students, school Mums and people who work nearby. It looks like it does a decent trade and there’s a good atmosphere when you step inside.   

I was invited to try their food. The menu is extensive and broad. A mix of traditional breakfast, brunch and lunch fare, with some dishes with a slight twist. The chef is using his platform to experiment and try new things, and I encourage anyone who goes here to try the specials. I enjoyed one of the specials which was the thyme mushroom toast with spiced cauliflower, roasted cherry tomato, goats cheese hummus, kale. The lamb and kale salad was particularly nice as well. The breakfast burrito was pretty good, and was saved by the salsa. Coffee was decent.

The interior is very light filled. Rustic, but not trying to be rustic. Shades of auburn, brown, brick, wood and tiles.   Very friendly staff and baristas.

This café is catering to its audience. It’s almost a throwback to pre-instagram days where it was about customer service and churning out good food. Making a connection with your local community and servicing their needs. My only comment would be that presentation could use some minor tweaks. Less is more. Manu would not be asking “where’s the sauce” that’s for sure! Let the food sing. Less razzle dazzle.

In conclusion, a great local café. If you’re driving by, stop in for a coffee and meal, you might end up staying longer than you think you will.

Disappointed today with the service. Ordered 2 sandwiches to go for my lunch. One was already made so asked for a 2nd to be made. Paid for it. I never asked for it to be toasted nor the staff member asked me to be toasted waited far too long. After way too long while it arrived toasted. Very unhappy and had to meet appointment. No time left to discuss it with them bcs of time frame so I left empty handed. Hope they offered it to someone gratis. Food and coffee is good here but? Hope people there learn by this and to LISTEN to the order and not assume.