Market Lane specialty coffee roasters in Prahran – All the lovely pics here are taken by Tony Mott, and styled by Claire Larritt-Evans.
Melbourne just can’t seem to get enough good coffee, can we? I mean, there is great coffee to be had on almost every street, in almost every neighbourhood… and yet, it seems there’s always room for one more gorgeous new coffee spot! And they’re ALL always busy! (I mean… have you tried to get a table at Seven Seeds recently..?!)
I have been meaning to post about Market Lane for agessss… Melbourne’s newest Coffee connoisseurs opened their doors late last year, and doesn’t it look pretty!? Their space in Prahan Market was designed by Deborah Lacey of DJL architect, with styling and interior details by Claire Larritt-Evans, a super talented Melbourne stylist / busy young Mum who I originally met through Megan Morton a couple of years ago! It was Claire who first showed me these pics of Market Lane when she had just completed the project last year – wow, gorgeous or what?! Somehow Deborah and Claire pulled this place together in just three and half slightly crazy months last year! Now that is impressive!
Anyway of course I’m babbling about the beautiful design of the place, but rest assured, Market Lane do also seriously know their coffee! Owners Fleur Studd and Jason Scheltus each come from a background in speciality coffee – Jason trained as a roaster at Monmouth Coffee Company in London, and Fleur owns Melbourne Coffee Merchants – a speciality green bean importing business which supplies boutique coffee roasters around Australia including St Ali, Seven Seeds, and North Melbourne’s Auction Rooms. The opportunity to open Market Lane arose unexpectedly in the middle of last year, when a site became available at Prahran Market. For Fleur and Jason it was an opportunity too perfect to pass up!
Fleur and Jason are passionate about their coffees – they source unique coffee blends from around the globe, roasting them carefully in small batches on site to bring out the unique regional characteristics in each coffee. They’re keen to pass on their enthusiasm for the provenance of their coffees through free sampling and public ‘cuppings’ (tastings) every day at 10am. They also do simple, minimalist food – lovely pastries from Dench Bakers, and delicious ‘Bread and Jam’ which consists of Dench Baguettes, French Lescure butter and Annie Smithers Jam. Simple and yum.
Both Fleur and stylist Claire are loyal TDF readers (thankyou guys!)…. and so Market Lane have dreamed up a truly generous giveaway for Design Files readers!
The prize – 6 x 3 month Market Lane Coffee Club subscriptions (valued at $125 each!) :
6 winners will receive 250g of freshly roasted coffee, delivered every 2 weeks to their front door or office (within Australia) for 3 months!
How awesome is that!? The gift that keeps on giving for 3 whole months! …So every morning whilst you are checking your emails and loyally reading The Design Files (he he!), you can be drinking your freshly brewed Market Lane coffee!
The winners will be able to choose between a ‘roasters pick’ membership (a different coffee every fortnight for pour over / plunger / stove top) or the ‘espresso’ membership (suitable for people who have an espresso machine at home).
*please note this giveaway is now closed and winners have been notified by email! Thanks so much for all your entries! WOW nothing like fresh coffee to get people excited! Huge thanks once again to Market Lane for their generous prizes.
Market Lane
Shop 13 Prahran Market
163 Commercial rd (entrance on Elizabeth st)
South Yarra
Market Lane coffee!
Lucy the new blog looks fantastic!! (just fyi, some of the links don’t work if you click on the daily email though….)
I would love to win 3 months of coffee. actually i think my housemate would love it even more, but hey, it’s important to keep housemates happy!
Hi Lucy
As a newbie to Melbourne one of my interior design friends introduced me to your blog about 3 months ago in preparation of my inpending arrival….. your daily treats have left my mind spinning on how to decorate my new apartment…… and every morning I tell all my friends who are joining that it is like a slice of a really good magazine right into your inbox as a morning treat every day!!!
Would love the coffee….. to help in my job search!!
Amy
Loving the new look Lucy. Well done to your team!
Nice to navigate around. Archive a dangerous place to tread.. you can lose hours.
Coffee giveaway right up my alley! I can sip whilst flicking through your wonderful design coverage!
My mouth is watering at the thought. A whole new dimension to doing my organic shopping at Prahran market each week! As someone newly returned to Melbourne after 30 years away, it’s a delight to be rediscovering all its wonders. Thanks Lucy for leading me to all the best spots. As a writer, I love to find gorgeous spots to spend a few hours tapping away and you’ve just found me another. Thanks. Jill
reading all this pleasant coffee talk has helped warm me up this very frosty morning.
Beautiful! I was thinking about cutting down on my caffeine intake too. Oh well!
Oh the yum…
On my way to work now and via Market Lane exciting! – thanks again for keeping me first in the know!
Beautiful new site Lucy, all that hard work has paid off!! Brilliant giveaway too!! xxjukka
do u think it will make getting up easier in the morning?
most definitely! I love Market Lane, it is always a treat to go there and enjoy a coffee : )
Long time reader, first time comment-er! The new site looks great! Some of this coffee may lessen the guilt of letting my brother make all of the coffees at our house…
Love Market Lane – their look, their ethos, & their coffee – and it’s great to see them so gorgeously presented here. Looking forward to following The Design Files – just beautiful!
Good Morning, the blog is looking great! I love Market Lane Coffee, they use it and sell it at Deadman Espresso in South Melbourne, one of my fave places. An ideal giveaway to kick start the day.
Love the current trend for coffee shops being so natural and raw with their design! This place is incredible and I wish I lived in Melbourne so I could try the coffee! However the beans would be an amazing substitute and may just convince me to come try the real thing!
Lucy, congratulations, the new site looks fabulous. Please count me in for the coffee competition!
Cheers,
Suzanne
The new site looks great – well done. Market Lane – gorgeous. Thanx for the tip and freshly ground coffee,delivered would just be divine. We have 2 extremely serious coffee lovers at my place. cheers Melita x
I have been there before and it is such an amazing space!!!!!
Cant wait to go back again!
Cheers
Chris
PS the new blog is fantastic!
Congratulations on the new site. I wish I lived in Melbourne and could start the day with such great coffee but the coffee club might do for now.
Is anybody else staring with glazed eyes at the froth in that last coffee photo… I can almost smell it!
Lucy, it all looks great! Bet you are really happy – but exhausted :) – after navigating through the quagmire of issues surrounding internet overhauls! Well worth it in the end though.
Also I was THRILLED to see such an indepth coverage of DMT! I was pretty much heart broken to see that the only two days non-professionals could visit conflicted with a prebooked “xmas in July” holiday in Point Lonsdale. I couldn’t believe I missed it… but with all of your pics, I sat down with a coffee and pretended I hadn’t! My partner thinks I’m sad, but I loved it!
Thank you so much.
PS Oh yes, the giveaway…Coffee me up buttercup!
I have just moved to Melbourne from a long stint in London and have been blown away by how amazing the coffee culture is here (well, not that there’s much to compare to coming from London!). I’m definitely going to be adding Market Lane to my list of places to go for a saturday morning coffee. Thanks for the heads up! And count me in for the coffee comp too! :-)
Beautiful photos!
Great Shots. Almost as good as the coffee these guys are roasting!
Missing Melb… Love the Market Lane take away cups!
Just FYI, can’t see some of the pics in the blog or in the email sent, hmm not sure why…
This place looks like it would have really great atmosphere and feel. look forward to trying it soon
free delicious coffee = one happy productive glass blower
Love the new blog on WordPress!
very pretty. can almost smell it from here.
My husband and I are Prahran Market regulars and have relished visiting this lovely spot since it day one. As a dedicated tea drinker I happily soak up the atmosphere on offer while Matt enjoys a delicious (and stylie) caffeine kick.
oh WOW. what an amazing giveaway! AND what an amazing new look for the blog!
I read the wonderful Design Files with my coffee of a morning, so it seems only
fitting that I should enter this generous comp.
The site is looking great as is the coffee.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Great coffee, well thought out decor and great, friendly people!
It’s like the caffeine hit just started! Oh i love Market Lane and can I just say, I really love these shots too – if i squint, I can almost believe I’m not at work and am just kicking back at the market for a very looooong coffee break while reading the morning paper. Sigh. Thanks to your little helpers for a great new look on the blog too – it’s so schmick!
Mmmmm good coffee on the doorstep! Couldn’t ask for much more than that.
Market Lane is the best! I would love to win… please pick me Random Number Generator!
For at-home coffee making endeavours Market Lane has always come up trumps with the best beans, but I never realised how beautiful the fitout was. Will make sure I stop by now instead of sending the boy out to do it (although Coffee delivery for a Melburnian would be like Christmas every month!)
Oh goodness what a prize! I just took my last sip of my home coffee as I read this. Oh how I wish I had a cup of Market Lane’s! x
Mmmmmm coffee!!
Great space…just what Prahran Market needed.
Love the new site!
Don’t get out as much for an early morning coffee anymore so delivery to my door sounds like heaven.
Fingers crossed.
Haven’t had my first coffee of the day yet … (and no, I’m not an early riser). Bring on Market Lane!
Hey Lucy,
The new blog is looking lovely, as do your market lane pics. I haven’t discovered their coffee yet. Would love to be one of the espresso pack winners. Fingers crossed!
Ali x
New site looks great! and of course, yes, I would like to be in the running for the coffee prize pack!
Lucy are you using a true “Random Number Generator” or just a “Pseudo-Random Number Generator”? Not that it makes a difference for the purposes of the competition… I just wonder how advanced your nerd skills are!
See http://j.mp/pseudorandom
PS: Market Lane is awesome, I regularly make a detour on the way to work to get a fresh single origin hit for our Siphon. :D
Love Prahran Market!
Love Coffee!
Love Market Lane Coffee!
xxx elle
incredibly generous and delicious!!
coffeecoffeecoffee!
Congratulations on the new site! Coffee prize pack is something i would like to win.
A seriously good cup of coffee can be the best part of my day – nectar of the gods!!!
Another Fab posting – love the new ‘WordPress’ look too!
That wonderful coffee will make it so much easier to get out of bed on these cold mornings and sit in front of my computer ready my daily hit of all things beautiful in your email. Can wait to go to market lane and check it all out.
My first sip of coffee … ideas shift, concepts start to evolve … the design process is now in full swing, full of inspiration, then like clockwork – I spill coffee on my visual diary
… and I smile :-)”
Please count me in … my absolute favourite beans – ever!!!
Absolutely love market lane, not only great coffee but a perfect place to sit and enjoy a baguette with delicious jam!!!! A beautiful space!!!!!!!!
Well since I live nearby, I could even pick up my own beans and have a coffee there!
Monmouth Coffee was one of my favourite places in London, so an alumni of theirs in Melbourne is exciting news!
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! Market Lane is such a treat… have my fingers and toes crossed to win this one :)
I’m from Melbourne. I love coffee and now I love Market Lane. Me please.
mmmmmm coffee
The new site looks fab, Lucy, well done! And I think I’ll have to go and get a Market Lane coffee right now! x
Looks like another great place to try.
Wow, If only I could start my mornings with a coffee at Market Lane! As I live in Mudgee NSW I can only dream of such things, therefore, to win a coffee prize pack would be next best thing!! Oh, I recently bought two Hookturn cups online after seeing their ad on your site. We love ‘em!
Ooh now I feel like a coffee…!
I can barely type as I havent had my coffee fix today yet…. wouldnt be a future problem if its my lucky number that pops up! Cmon random number generator! Be MY lucky day!!
love the blog……..even nicer to read each morning with a great coffee! the styling of Market Lane is just beautiful. So simple and fresh and welcoming.
Hmm, made me reach for a DIY coffee but it sure wont be as good as Market Lane! The great post makes me miss living in Melbourne too and Prahran markets.
Bring on the tasty goodness coffee gods…love the Market Lane feel to the pleasure of coffee. This is a fantastic blog which keeps getting better along with these tip top giveaways!
I am yet to find the perfect home coffee brew! This would be a BIG help :)
How deeee licious!
so much coffee – so little time…
what a great space! can’t wait to check it out.
Coffee… Mmmmmm!
I haven’t had my coffee hit this morning! GIMME!
I kid. Love the new site =D
J
just like your blog, another addiction that can’t be tamed..caffeine.
Market Lane, another good reason to live in Melbourne.
Desgn Files + Morning Coffee = A splendid way to spend the morning.
What a great prize! I could do with a coffee now….!
What beautifully styled shots… ! Market Lane really is a great space.
x
Hmmm….looks like a lovely cuppa opportunity – caffeine and great design are a powerful combination! It would be great to win!
Great new site — well done, Lucy
I live in NSW… coffee doesn’t taste as sweet here… PLEASE! I would love to win a Melbourne brew!
LOVE and LIVE on market lane coffe! My boyfriend is a coffe nerd and would go off his head if it was delivered to the front door! Roasters choice for our pour over and syphon would be great.
Love the revamped website too!
x
love market lane coffee. always pop in when at the market. not only do they have great coffee,fab service – they have this amazing ‘sugar’.
Oh how a nice freshly ground coffee each morning is just what this mum needs. YES PLEASE, COUNT ME IN !!
I’ll be putting this place in my book as a place to visit if I get back to Melbourne! Fantastic!
Absolutely fab giveaway. Fresh coffee. Delivered. Sounds perfect.
My Andrew would flip over this. The house would actually smell good for once!
Lurve the new site!
And love the new coffee destination. Being north of the river we can miss these developments unless TDF tell us about them.
Saturday – road trip to south of river!
It’s gorgeous places like this that make me wish I lived in Melbourne and not Sydney…how disloyal of me!
Hi Lucy, loving the clarity of the new blog look, and a chance to indulge in coffee madness, it all just gets better and better…mmm off to Prahran Now!
amazingly yummy giveaway! The cafe looks just beautiful.
Would definitely make the trip in from the outer burbs to enjoy their coffee, golly Melb has some fantastic little hide-aways, thanks for all the tip-offs Lucy!
What a lovely looking space and such a fantastic prize! Loving the new site revamp too!
Haven’t tried this coffee yet! – it sounds amazing and their store is bewtiful.
Mmmm I can smell the beans from here!
perfect.
you know where to find me on saturday morning. and free coffee… on my door… me please!
I read this blog religiously and everytime I get to Melbourne I look/eat/shop like a local because of my design file knowledge! Am quite partial to the odd coffee also! Keep up the great blog!
mmm yes please!
eek! what a prize! these photos are beautiful. i love those white tiles. definitely a look i’ll be borrowing for my kitchen makeover.
coffee deliveries? damn! this has inspired me to get my espresso machine fixed.
My morning cup of design is Design Files. Keep up the excellent blog.
You can never have too much of a good thing, right?
I was just at the Prahran market, picking up a surprise mid morning coffee for my gorgeous hardworking husband. I wish I had read your blog first thing this morning, Lucy & I would have gone to Market Lane!!! We would love some delicious coffee!!! Thanks also for the fabulous blog, I love getting my daily dose of ‘Design Files’. X
Love the new look Lucy! Another great giveaway and well coveted I see. Thanks Market Lane. Who wouldn’t want to wake up to the smell of freshly roasted java. Fingers crossed, x
THANKS SO MUCH for all the fab comments so far guys…! WOW nothing like fresh coffee to get everyone excited!
Thanks also for the heads-up re: missing links and missing pics from those who subscribe by email – so sorry about these little niggles… just letting you know we are onto it and all these little probs should be all sorted within a day or two.. Thank SO MUCH for your patience and for keeping me informed!
Also thanks for all your kind words re: the new-look site! Yes I am happy with it… just still fumbling through the back-end a bit.. but we’ll get there!
Mmm coffeeee.. x
Would love some regular Market Lane Coffee, yes please.
loving the new site..
Market Lane looks great, too.. both the fit-out and the photos – congrats, guys.
Thank you so much for the chance to win this gorgeous prize. Your site is amazing, and your coffee is simply the best
TMCM – too much coffee man
:)
I know they already love me, but my Melbourne family would love me even more if I won this for them! Fingers crossed.
Hi Lucy
Its my Dad’s 50th this August and I know he would just love this free coffee offer from Market Lane. Hopefully I win for him!
Gorgeous pictures! I haven’t been to the Prahran market in awhile … this seems like as good a reason as any to go back and have a browse.
My husband is the coffee drinker in our family – I’m much more of a coffee smeller. =)
Great photo’s, love to sample beautiful coffee, even though I try hard not to drink it.
Looks impressive, will make a beeline for it on my next market trip. Thanks for the heads up!
Oh it looks lovely! Must visit soon! Mmm coffee – will have to go and make one now :)
INSPIRATION…a word to sum up your blog Lucy. I couldn’t imagine how inspired i’d be with a morning hit of scrumptious coffee, to go with my equally important hit of Design Files!
Lucy, am impressed with your new site. Can imagine what a job it was to move it. Market Lane coffee looks pretty impressive too
Mmmmm Coffee!
Yuuuuuuuuuuum.
Yum.
That is all.
Oh, and thanks!
Love the wordpress site, Lucy!
Oh this comp is too good to not comment! Pick me, pick me!
I went to the cafe and tried the coffee – it was great, best latte I have ever had. Organic milk – yum!
Stunning photos, and such incredible coffee – well worth the visit!
Ooohh what a lovely place to have a coffee…I can think of another lovely place to have a coffee if it was delivered to my door… ! I hope I get picked from that random number generator thingy!
Love the wordpress site Lucy and your blog as always. : )
Oh pick me please! I am an animator and am not allowed to sleep for the rest of the year!
Cannot wait to drop in when I’m over in August!
I’ve been ordering various beans from them and always receive great packaging and information about my selection.
Looks amaaazing.
I love Market Lane — Prahran Market had always been such a wasteland for good coffee, so I was over the moon when Market Lane finally opened and gave the market the cafe it always deserved. There are few better ways to start the weekend than with an almond croissant and a double espresso, both beautifully presented. Can’t recommend it highly enough!
what a great spot for coffee
Mmmmm coffeeeeee!!!!
I’m in! my coffee siphon is hungry! (or should that be thristy?)
Omg how awesome would it be to win this!!! COFFEEEEEEE. Totall CafFiend here. *cross fingers*
The new blog looks great Lucy. I’d love to win the coffee comp.
love market lane coffee and great site btw
Awesome coffee!!
Looks like a great comp, count me in!
What a gorgeous looking place, unfortunately too far from home… so, yes please to coffee delivered to me!
Great design accompanied by wonderful sustenance – I don’t think life could get any better! Thanks for all the eye candy, tip-offs and updates. What a great start to the day.
I love how Market Lane host daily cuppings for the general public… they are not just there to make $$ but to educate and give something back to farmers and the community.
No doubt Market Lane choose amazing single farm coffees, and I like their roast style – perfect for pour over or syphon.
Well done guys.
Can almost smell the coffee looking at those gorgeous photos.
mmmm coffee – I can never get enough, but haven’t made it to this place yet. I’ll have to get there soon!
coffee, coffee, coffee………
Count me in!
Fabulous new site, didn’t think it was possible for TDF to get any better! Thanks Lucy x
Just found a really good reason to venture further in that direction….it’s difficult with so many great places in the inner north!
Why don’t I live in Melbourne!!!!!
Ooh such a wintery warming giveaway! Yum! Thanks for everything you do Lucy xxaj
A local I have yet to try. Must get down there, stat!
Just finished dinner, should go to the gym, but am instead kicking back with another lovely escape to the design files..now all i need is a cup of that market lane coffee to accompant my flights of fancy!
Ooooh I can smell it now! Keep the inspiration coming lucy, you bring sunshine to my days!!
oh i would loooove this! always in search of great new coffee! Nice one lucy xo
will have to check out market lane soon!
Mmm… What gorgeous coffee!!! Gorgeous new site too. x
oooh, gotta be better than the cheap’n'nasty aldi coffee beans i bought out of desperation.
I am a caffeine addict. Please let it be me!
seven seeds worth a visit on a sunday afternoon, seats usually to be had.
claire l e has styled / designed up a beautiful thing here at market lane. lets raise our cups to market lane! hip hip, hooray!
Winning some Market Lane coffee would definitely make me smile :) Your blog is fabulous by the way!
you truly do find inspiration in everything, such a delight to see all industries spotlighted on your blog. on good authority its noted that Market lane has Melbourne’s finest coffee.
ooo fingers crossed!
ah, perfect timing, i have just run out of freshly roasted beans! xo
market lane coffee would make caffiene hit!
Hi Lucy, love the new wordpress look. It’s a funny coincidence re: this post because I had a single origin filter coffee from Bolivia roasted by Market Lane today at Dead Man Espresso! And it was beautiful. Smooth, sweet and clean. Keep up the great work x
MMMMMM, Coffee!!!!
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
And I will dwell in the House of Mochas forever.
yay for coffee!!
Strong evokations -nostalgic memories of life in my Uni canteen circa 1960,
animated chatter and the heady aroma of freshly ground beans.
I wish we had a blog like yours for Brisbane design hotspots!!!
The perfect start to a day, my daily freshly brewed indulgence!
Another place to add to the ‘must visit’ list for my next Melbourne trip. Can’t beat a good coffee.
Great coffee from a great place. Market Lane Coffee, love it!
Aha, I’ve heard of the place before but had no idea of its name or that it was in the Prahran Markets. Must make my way out there this week!
coffee….. hhm… yes please
a giveaway that feeds my addiction. heaven! thanks x
love your blog ive just started reading!
also LOVE market lane coffee, delicious!
Hey lucy,
Coffee = fresh beans = beautiful aroma = lotsa smiles = feeling happy = made my day!!
P.S – Loveeee the new look, it’s fabulous.
Love the blog and feel drawn to look at it every day…coffee beans freshly roasted, can i add the coffee machine at home is singing with excitement…
Love me some coffee, so I’m definitely in! Love the blog too!
The smell of freshly roasted beans from Market Lane sounds very indulgent!
Loving your new website. The problem is, it keeps me up too late each night inspiring me to be more creative around my home. Hence the coffee would be a bonus, a perfect start to eacch morning!
oooo. i love the new look of your blog… well done.
please send some coffee my way!
am i too late? d’oh!
Will have to go check them out. The cafe looks fantastic!
Congrats on the move to WP. Blog is looking nice and clean!
Love your new look, your blog makes me happy every night when the kids have fallen asleep and I need my design fix. The coffee would come in handy when they wake up far to early… Thanks!
Adore Market Lane and the Prahran Market – this prize would be brilliant!!
The blog looks great! I would love some coffee. This makes me want to take a coffee break now!