Twelvefold

Occupying a Henty Street shopfront since November 2021, this specialty coffee house was opened by Charles and Sophie Fredericks, who built the room around a partnership with roaster Campos and a pair of custom La Marzocco Linea Classic machines. The fit-out is deliberately spare, with polished floors, earthy tones and retail shelving, a Melbourne sensibility landed in Victoria's oldest European town. Coffee is the point, poured from six each morning seven days a week, alongside signature sourdough toasties and a short, regionally minded menu that shifts with the seasons. Monthly evening events push the kitchen beyond daytime trade. Portland was long a working port with little third-wave coffee to speak of; the arrival here, noted in specialty trade press, gave the town a serious espresso bar of its own.