Grey & Bliss

Dropped into this Cool Funky Café, with unusual décor for a business lunch. Not noisy and we had a choice of sitting inside or outside.
Ordered very nice LARGE skinny latte and Sticky pulled pork with cucumber slaw and cauliflower pancake which was so fresh and tasty.
Good value and good service.

Fabulous service and friendly staff!
Great quality coffee by 5 Senses — cold or hot selections to choose from.
An extensive, modern menu with delicious brunch and lunch items with daily specials. Juice bar and good takeaway food options too, with a range of raw cakes & desserts.

Love this little café!!! As a new Melbourne café snob my partner and I are out and about at least 3 times a week all across Melbourne!!! This one is a winner. Their Ham and Cheese croissants were delicious and coffee was great! They even offer almond and coconut milk. A good little find for a lazy Tuesday morning.

Really disappointing.
Meals came out 5 minutes apart from each other. Both cold (well mine was warmish)
Poached eggs were overdone and solid on his, mine were vinegary and sloppy and the whites were uncooked. «Smashed avocado» equated to a tiny spread on bread.
His meal would have been saved if the eggs hadn’t been overdone. Mine was awful. Even if the eggs had been cooked.
Coffee is great. Grab a coffee. Avoid breakfast.

Ambience and layout of the café is amazing the best presented café on bay Street. However its not wheelchair/​disabled friendly with toilets located upstairs.
The food is impressive but they do one of my pet peeves present food on a breadboard. Plates are fine but when you present beautiful tasty omlettes on a bread board still in two skillets they become very difficult and awkward to eat.
The salt pepper looks cool in there containers but are also awkward to use and suspect that may lead to people using fingers to use them instead.
Great food, great venue and quite quirky but stop with the breadboards please.

Grey & Bliss is a slick looking café that breathed some much needed life into an aging old space. It’s quite large and caters well to the local area.
I couldn’t quite work out if they are trying to position themselves as a high-​end modern café with inventive dishes or a standard café that focuses on high volumes of quick food and coffee for the masses. For a standard café, it’s great and hits the mark. For a modern/​higher end café, very average — so I guess it depends on what you’re looking for.
It’s a large, comfortable space. Staff are friendly and stay positive while being quite busy.
The coffee is decent and there are loads of food options from pre-​made sandwiches to heartier dishes. The menu and price ($ 15-​$ 20+ per dish) suggests that they’re aiming to compete with the new wave Melbourne cafes, however the offering falls far short.
I ordered the corn & haloumi fritters for lunch. They were well presented, but so ridiculously bland. It tasted like nothing. The avocado was hard. There was zero flavour in the fritters and it was jam packed with tinned corn. I couldn’t taste the haloumi, I guess it was mixed in. There are so many great cafes in Melbourne that do this dish well and this one doesn’t compete.
They have a cute sweets collection with some smaller bites for kids. I suspect it’s more targeted to handle crowds. If you just need somewhere close to sit for lunch, it’s a good option but as far as a foodie-​spot, I wouldn’t go back.

Friendly staff and great management! No plunger coffee but their long black was nice and strong. Great interior design and atmosphere. You’ll see me catching up on wifi and caffeine here in the future.

Pretty good food and the staff are friendly. There’s nothing really amazing or surprising about the place. That may have more to do with us being spoiled with good spots than anything else.

Kinda like a copy of Euodore then mixed with max Brenner.
The space here is still cavernous, but takes over from the dated Tall ship
café which never looked much appealing. It’s been open for a month or so
now, and inside you can find all your Aussie lunch favorites. Yes, I mean the
filled baguette/​Gourmet sandwich/​Turkish pide, with non boring fillings that is
all so replete with cafes these days. I know sandwiches are available in other
countries, but we have an unnatural fixation with them here.
Cool little jar things of evaporated sugar, (like breadcrumbs) and crystal salt
and ground black pepper. Coffee is great. Menu on the whole is pretty pricey
with most good things sitting quite near the $ 20 mark. There’s a lot of seating
here, a display window thing for cakes/​pastries, a two sided menu, and the
usual tea/​coffee/​hot chocolate things. It’s a big space.

A welcome addition to the Bay St café scene.
Grey & Bliss is a very stylish replacement of the Tall Ship Café that used to reside here. The fit out is exceptional, no expense has been spared. A huge modern, European café style space with a mix of tables for 2, 4 and communal dining. Plentiful seating carries through to the outdoors with the tables adorned with pots of herbs. Nice touch.
The breakfast menu is cleverly broken up into Savoury, Sweet, Vegetarian and Sides. The options available include the traditional items like eggs florentine but pleasingly include some really new and fresh creations.
I chose the Chilli Beans with haloumi and zucchini fritters. The fritters were lovely and crisp and were great dipped into the balsamic vinegar. The beans had the right amount of heat and the haloumi was perfectly salty.
Breakfast specials are listed in the window for raisin toast or banana bread with a hot drink around the $ 6-​$ 7 mark.
My soy hot chocolate was moreish, I wished the mug was bigger. The homemade marshmallow was another nice touch.
With a few tweaks G&B could reach a 5 :
— sugar, salt, pepper needs to be on the table
— service will improve once the friendly staff gain experience
— more chorizo needed in the Chilli chorizo
— larger coffee cups
— outdoor heaters/​umbrellas
— water brought to the table
G&B is already popular with locals after opening about 2 weeks ago and I do not see that popularity declining. Welcome to Bay St.