Introducing Junnie Phyu's new café

Introducing Junnie Phyu’s new café

Winner of the 2024 Australia’s Richest Barista competition and owner of JuNNie Coffee Workshop, Junnie Phyu, has officially launched her new Melbourne coffeeshop on Hawthorn’s Burwood Road.

More Coffee, which soft launched at the end of 2025, is the latest venture for the certified Q Grader, coffee instructor, and competition champion, with its opening in the inner east Melbourne suburb representing something of a homecoming.

“I’m very familiar with this area because I graduated from Swinburne University,” she says. “It takes me back to my first times in Melbourne when I didn’t know the city at all.

“Going from that to a position where I can open my own café, it’s great to be here as a better version of myself than when I first came.

“It’s just a perfect location, we’re right on the corner of Burwood Road. I’ve been looking for the right place to be for two or three years, but it only took a month or two to decide to come to this location.”

From coffee classics to refined signature drinks, Junnie’s imprint is obvious throughout the More Coffee menu.

She’s worked to create something for everyone at More Coffee – and it appears to be paying early dividends with the venue getting “busier and busier” every day.

“We still have the classics, because everyone wants to have their classic coffee, but signature drinks have become very popular recently,” she says.

“I’ve gone to a lot of places and tried a lot of drinks and took inspiration from a lot of different coffees.

“I wanted to create a menu that, if a group of four or five friends come in, there’s something for everyone. We have a lot of different pourover coffees too, but some people want things like matcha or signature drinks too.”

She’s had plenty of early positive feedback about the quality of More Coffee’s matcha.

“Customers have said they’ve struggled to find a good matcha spot in this area,” she says, “but they’re very happy and glad about the matcha we serve.”