Cafeteria - Melbourne Café en Valparaíso — Restaurant in Valparaíso

Melbourne cafe is not what you’d expect in the centre of Valparaiso, Chile. Nor in the main confluence of traffic and parking for tourist minibuses like ours. Normally places like these trade on the fact that 98% of customers are one-timers. So they don’t have to try too hard. We went twice! Once after parking and on the way up the hill and once on the way down after a thoroughly enjoyable tour of the colourful areas of town. Melbourne was a great stop-off both ways, and not just because there’s two toilets, female and male. Good coffee and friendly efficient service. Our tour guide Max of Journey Latin America recommended Melbourne and we’re glad we followed his advice. If you’re on a tour to Valparaiso and your minibus parks up at the port end of the square, then enjoy your pit stop...

This was very much like a typical American (and Australian?) coffee shop. Nice range of coffee drinks and a decent selection of breakfast and lunch items. My wife and I both had cafe lattes with ham and cheese croissant sandwiches, which were very good. Staff was very friendly and spoke decent English. Would recommend if your looking for a good quick cup of coffee in a...

Sorry - but this Aussie was not impressed. The coffee needed a sachet of sugar to cover the bitterness. Having just flown in from Bolivia where we had great cafe choices we were disappointed. The food is toasted pre-made panini and the ham panini came with tomato sauce, not...