The Ambitious Act

While Melbourne is full of fabulous coffee locations, The Ambitious Act is definitely one of the best. Rich, full flavoured coffee, perfect temperature and beautifully textured milk in the mugs of latte we consumed while sitting indoors to escape the brisk morning air. Try it - you won't be disappointed!

The perfect spot to get away from Downtown Melbourne. My sister and I dined in Ambitious Act at the perfect time and day, after 10am on a Monday. We sat under the array of plants hanging from the ceiling and potted plants along the front window display. My strong soy FW tasted beautifully, my sister enjoyed her HC. For breakfast I devoured the Mixed Mushrooms w halloumi, pan fried garlic mushrooms w smashed hazelnuts on house made ciabatta *Delicious! My sister ordered the Chilli Scramble, Eggs scrambled w gochugaru chilli oil, fresh chilli, spring onion and fried shallots on HM ciabatta. My sister was thrilled when she noticed the bouncyness of the eggs and loved taste too! Thank you for a delicious meal and experience. Ladies taking care of the joint were extremely lovely. Thank you!

Breakfast 19/06/22 Best Breakfast I can remember, everything was incredible. Coffee just how I like it. Long black half cold water/served warm, so many struggle to understand a pretty common order sorry I can’t drink boiling water straight. But back to this breakie, it was unforgettable, the chilli scramble wasn’t overly spicy to the point it’s not enjoyable, just perfect and what ever the flakes on top of the scramble added the perfect texture. The avocado was perfectly ripe for the meal and couldn’t get over how tasty the mushrooms were with the sesame seeds 2 perfect coffees and Amy favourite breakie for less than $30 just perfect! Couldn’t recommend higher, just wish I had more photos to get better views for you guys!

Beautiful and cozy little cafe that for once doesn't feel like Mme.Puddifoots (if you know you know). Coffees great, the breakfasts came over quick and hot and were well executed. The cornbread in my partner's vegan chilli was fluffy as promised but was almost lost in the highly flavourful beans. My chilli scramble was comforting and the mushrooms I ordered as extras were garlicky good! We'll be coming back again and again. P.S - the internal foliage is real 😱😁

Great service, amazing presentation and delicious food with great vegan and vegetarian food, drinks and desserts. The place is intimate but boasts a big personality. Extremely cute place. My partner who isn’t vegan loved his meal. Definitely will be back. Only feedback was the the water had some floaties. But luckily we had our own water anyway :)

Let me start by saying I didn't know this place was vegetarian/vegan friendly when I walked in and sat down. But I had already ordered a drink and was too hungry to find another place but I actually liked the food now not saying being veg or vegan is bad just that it's not usually my preference but the food was very rustic, simple yet delicious and better yet reasonably priced so with that said I would come back again!

Beautiful cafe with real plants and the food was fresh and we extremely happy with the taste and presentation. We had the Mediterranean panini and mushroom aoli with 2 almond cappuccino’s. The coffee was great also! The only thing that lost a star was there was unwanted floaty friends in our water accompanied by a blue flake and dirty glasses we emptied and refilled a few times but the floats reclaimed their territory. We had lucky had a water bottle with us. But the service and food made us so happy that it didn’t effect our experience. Saturday shift