Finally Mine Coffee House

The third venue from Kade King, who opened his first Latrobe Valley cafe at 26 before launching the book-lined Bodhi Specialty Coffee, this corner room on Breed Street pours from 5:30am behind a custom sage-green Synesso Hydra. The house pour is Five Senses' Crompton Road, with a single origin rotating monthly for those who take it black. Bi-fold windows open the space to the street, and a kitchen runs until mid-afternoon. From Thursday to Saturday evenings the fit-out shifts register: the counter becomes a small bar working through Gippsland wines, regional craft beer and cocktails, espresso martinis included. It is a considered, coffee-first room in a regional centre better known for its chains, and a marker of how far the Valley's specialty scene has come.