Six Barrels totally instagrammable but also delicious

You know how we feel about Mon­terey, so it should be no sur­prise to you that we were very very excit­ed when we heard that Joseph was open­ing up a new fac­to­ry in which to bot­tle his deli­cious syrups, which is also a cafe too.  Six Bar­rel Soda Co has found a home in the old Eva Dixon’s (which has been sev­er­al cafes since then, but will always be Eva Dixon’s prob­a­bly. EDIT: but if you were unfa­mil­iar with it, it’s upstairs on the cor­ner of Eva and Dixon Streets, with access off Eva St), and the space is a delight to behold — open, airy and stacked with inter­est­ing mag­a­zines like Lucky Peach to read. You can read more about its design in this piece from Urbis. Need­less to say, this place is made for insta­gram­ming. But before I let loose with pic­tures from all my friends, let me tell you about what’s on offer.

First and fore­most — sodas. Cur­rent­ly flavours include lime, lemon & rasp­ber­ry, gin­ger, vanil­la cream, cher­ry & pome­gran­ate and kola nut, but appar­ent­ly flavours will change with sea­son­al avail­abil­i­ties. I’ve been work­ing my way through them, both straight up and also as ice cream floats, and I think that lemon & rasp­ber­ry is my favourite, and kola nut is not to my taste.The sodas are also avail­able in oth­er places around town, or you can take some of the syrup home with you too (they’ll even sell you one of those fan­cy siphon things if you wan­na get all posh on it). Behold the pret­ty sodas!

For food, there’s a range of salt­ed snacks like spiced nuts or peas and amaz­ing ket­tle chips. They do three kinds of mini burg­ers called slid­ers — hal­lou­mi,  tofu and beef & ched­dar. Mon­terey reg­u­lars will be famil­iar with how deli­cious these burg­ers are, although they’re in a dif­fer­ent kind of bun. They’re $8 each (or $11 for a soda com­bo) and come with a hand­ful of the tasty pota­to chips. If you have a mighty appetite, you might want two. There’s also three kinds of bagel (cream cheese & jam, toma­to and hum­mus, smoked salmon & cream cheese) and jol­ly big cheese scones from Brook­lyn Bak­ery. Appar­ent­ly there is also a brunch menu avail­able on week­ends offer­ing three dif­fer­ent kinds of scram­ble, but I haven’t tried that out yet. Oh, and of course as this is Welling­ton, there is also peo­ples cof­fee and sin­gle ori­gin fil­ter served bot­tom­less. Appar­ent­ly they will soon be serv­ing craft beers too. I can’t wait.

Six Bar­rels is cur­rent­ly my favourite place to have lunch, and if you go there, it may very well become your favourite place too. That’s fine, there is enough space for us all. After the jump, let’s get our insta­gram on!