Winner of the 2024 Australia’s Richest Barista competition and owner of JuNNie Coffee Workshop, Junnie Phyu, has opened a 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.
University on Burwood Road – a “perfect location”.
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 pour over coffees too, but some people want things like matcha or signature drinks too.”
Some of those signature drinks include Lemonade Osmanthus, the 2024 Australia’s Richest Barista winning drink. It’s a sugar-free sensation that Junnie says tastes exactly like lemon cheesecake, which is brewed with osmanthus flowers and finished with a silky lemonade foam.
There’s also Dirty Peach – for the milk lover. For this, a double ristretto “gets a delightful twist” with sweet peach foam and a hint of orange peel. Junnie says it’s “perfectly balanced and incredibly refreshing”.
She’s had plenty of early positive feedback about the quality of More Coffee’s matcha too.
“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.”
More Coffee
351 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Open Monday to Friday 7.30am to 3pm, Saturday and Sunday 8.30am to 3.30pm.
This article appears in the April 2025 edition of BeanScene. Subscribe HERE.
