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Bottomless campus coffee a sub for sleep

More subs than sandwiches: Hero at RMIT in the city.
More subs than sandwiches: Hero at RMIT in the city.Eddie Jim

Busy entrepreneurial couple Michael and Eleena Tan, who own the Reading Room cafe on the campus of Victoria University, the Grain Store cafe in the city, and food consultancy and design studio BrandWorks, opened a new concept sandwich store called Hero in the city late last week. It's more subs than sandwiches - the pair won a tender to open in the new RMIT SAB (Swanston Academic Building) and have designed the menu around New York-inspired ''submarine'' sandwiches. ''People love a good sandwich or baguette,'' Michael says, ''and we're bringing a Melbourne twist to something that's inspired from elsewhere.'' The shop is designed for students, with a focus on good-quality local produce, and the baguettes are custom-made by Empire Bakery in Windsor. The pricing is by size: a half sub is $7.80 or a full sub (a whopping 31 centimetres) is $11.80. Coffee, from St Ali, is filter-only (''There are enough good espresso cafes near us so we don't need to do that,'' Michael says) and it can be bought as a bottomless cup that sleepy students can return to have filled for one day.

Hero is open Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm and Saturdays from 10am to 5pm.

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