8 Miles Cafe & Convenience Store

I go to this place 2-3 times a week, never disappointed. Great coffee, nice staff.. Try the Falafel they made in-house (ask them to make a Falafel Sandwich). Yea and the Rice Pudding is very delicious too. They open on Saturday which is nice cuz most cafes near that area are closed.

I love this place. Whenever I walk in to this place I am always warmly greeted by Adam and Lynette, the owners. Lynnette makes great food and Adam makes the best chai in Melbourne. I don't drink coffee but my partner does and he vouched for the coffee. Food is really fresh, and they really care about quality, and the customers. I am moving workplaces and I will be so sad they are not my local.

They helped me re-inaugurate my espresso machine. I'm going to remember 8 Miles for a long time. Not because the pastries I got here were anything fantastic. Although the round baklava with pistachios in the centre and the walnut-filled shortbread biscuit were pretty good (A trifle pricey, though, @ $2.50 and $3 respectively.) What's going to stick out in my mind, though, is that these were the treats I ate along with the first mug of macchiato I made on my home espresso machine. I've been waiting almost 6 months to fire that mutha up since I immigrated back down here from Canada. It took a month for my household goods to clear Customs; then I dicked around a couple months before buying a refrigerator, so I had nowhere to store milk for coffees. 8 Miles is a milk bar as well as a cafe, so this is where I bought the full-cream for my cuppa, thank you. When I finally did try to use my Italian hellion machine, there was a pressure leak that had developed sometime when it was steaming across the Pacific. It's a professional quality, $2,000+ piece of equipment that I had to send to a specialist repair shop in Campbellfield. They took nearly a month (and charged almost $400) to fix the bloody thing. But now I'm back in the business of being able to make my own coffee in the morning, woo-hoo! I feel like Walter White (the meth-chemist anti-hero of the "Breaking Bad" TV series.) I can make my own speed again! The sweetness I feel is only partly due to the sweet stuff I got from 8 Miles. It's been great to sample flat whites at literally hundreds of cafes around the Melbourne metro during the past half-year, but that's all over with. Meaning I'll never have to pay for coffee from a place like this again, no matter how good it is.