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Why Patricia Waited 15 Years to Open Café #2 | PATRICIA COFFEE!

For 15 years, Patricia Coffee has done less than almost everyone else and made it mean more.

Standing room only. Black, white or filter. No sprawling menu, no kitchen and no trying to be everything to everyone. Somehow, that tiny Melbourne laneway shop became one of the city’s most iconic cafés.

Now, Bowen Holden and Pip Heath have finally opened Patricia number two.

We unpack the systems behind a tiny café, why saying no can still feel like great hospitality and how a wildly profitable affogato called Clouds Mountains went viral and got killed anyway.

Bowen and Pip also share what it really…

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