Melbourne a commercial city of modern high-rise.

By contrast Melbourne a city of earthy inner-city residential dwellings.

In some coffee places one espresso machine is not enough.

All hospitality is geared to offer service for the 850,000 people who are in the city daily.

Smaller coffee shops in city residential areas treat you like family.

David Jones Department store, opened in Sydney in 1938, opened in Melbourne in 1982. They have a window display for syphon coffee in their Melbourne store. David Jones mixing it up with Sensory Lab.

Bailey Coffee, will roast Miller’s Coffee in Melbourne. Josh Bailey, originally from Devonport, Auckland, started his North Melbourne roasting and wholesale business in 2006.

Josh and Craig head out across the Yarra to the industrial western suburbs to pick up green beans for the Miller’s Blend.

The Melbourne skyline from the Westgate Bridge.

Loading the ingredients for Miller’s Blend.

Some Miller’s Blend at the roastery.

The Giesen coffee roaster on which Joshua will cook the Miller’s Blend.

Sighting the first roast in Australia.

30 kilometres east of Melbourne is the leafy suburb of Boronia, at the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges.

Soon to be ‘Elsa and Gray. Miller’s Melbourne’.