Strawberry
$6.80Cold-pressed berries, folded through at the base.
Strawberry
Ceremonial matcha · Oat milk · Strawberry
Ripe strawberry. Bitter green tea. A soft, creamy hue of a finish.
Served iced · $6.80
Ninety seconds. That's the whole ceremony.
Bamboo grows a metre a day and still never looks like it's trying. That is the entire brief, and the reason the mark is built from three quiet strokes instead of a logo that shouts.
Ceremonial grade, stone-ground in Uji at 30g an hour, because grinding it faster burns it. Whisked in a warm bowl. Poured over cold oat. No syrups, no powders, no shortcuts.
01
Sift
Through fine mesh, twice. Matcha clumps or it doesn't dissolve.
02
Whisk
80°C, never boiling. Bamboo chasen, W-motion, thirty seconds.
03
Pour
Over cold oat and fruit. The layers separate themselves.
Four flavours, one method
Shaken, never
hurried.
The first harvest, or nothing.
Shaded twenty days before picking, which starves the leaf of light and floods it with theanine. First flush only — the youngest leaves from the top of the plant. Everything below that is culinary grade, and culinary grade is for baking.
Twenty days in shade. First flush only. Thirty grams an hour. Nothing added.
In the café
Where the leaf slows down.
Open 7am. Forty seats. Two doors down from the tram stop.
The system
Deep green reads as health food. Ember makes it a brand.
Six colours, and five of them stay out of the way. Ember appears on about one percent of any surface — a rule, a price, the bar on the can — and that restraint is the whole reason it lands.
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Matcha#3D6B52
Ember#D4622F
Sage#A8BF9E
Rice Paper#F4EDE2
Sumi#151210
The voice
Unhurried
Fraunces carries the warmth — a soft, almost hand-brushed serif at ultralight. Space Grotesk keeps it grounded and legible on a menu board at three metres.
Slow down. Drink.
Fraunces Light Italic · 300 · taglines & gifting notes
Ceremonial grade matcha, stone-ground in Uji. Served over oat milk, hot or iced. No syrups. No shortcuts.
Space Grotesk Light · 300 · body and menu copy
CEREMONIAL GRADE · UJI, KYOTO · STONE GROUND
Space Grotesk Semibold · 600 · +220 tracking
Slow down. Drink.
Two rooms, forty seats, one flat-top for the toasties. Come before eleven and you'll get a window.
Find usWhere
114 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy, Melbourne
Hours
Mon – Fri 7:00 – 16:00
Sat – Sun 8:00 – 17:00
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