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Brother Baba Budan

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As you walk in the cramped little cafe down in the office side of town, you can’t help but notice the amount of chairs provided. Too bad they’re on the roof.

Brother Baba Budan (BBB) is named after the 17th century Sufi Baba Budan, who in legend brought the almighty coffee bean from Yemen to create the delicious beverage. Every day BBB would have a choice of two beans, one house espresso and an ever-changing single-origin bean. During peak hours you would have to stand out the door amongst your fellow hipsters and paralegals to wait for one of their carefully crafted coffees. But once you take a sip of their creamy decadent lattes you will understand why, then probably get up and line up once more. To describe the house espresso is to like describe quantum mechanics to a fourth grader. Its sharp, complicated flavor is loaded with sweet undertones, like a wild stallion.

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The milk is excruciatingly perfect and the partnership brings forward a certain holy matrimony, it’s almost spiritual. But the real prize is the coffee called “Panama La Carledia Gesha”, a bean brought from the faraway bridge of North and South America. I think if Ghandi’s soul was available for sale it would taste like this coffee, there really is only one word to describe it. It is perfect. But in all seriousness, BBB serves one of the best coffee around (and almond tarts, for that matter), so put down that putrid, gravel quality Starbucks and be a real brother.

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