Six Bar­rel Soda is a semi-reg­u­lar stop and there I recently found a ginger latte (their ginger syr­up with hot latte milk), with or without a shot of cof­fee.  You prob­ably do have to be a ginger fan, but it was rather deli­cious and autum­nal.  I also spied a new rhu­barb syr­up and then after I left, looked back and saw what looks like ver­andah space being
Ginger Lattedeveloped.  Per­haps some­thing indoor/outdoor com­ing…?

Pro­ceed­ing down the alley, the Wel­ling­ton Chocol­ate Fact­ory are doing spe­cialty hot chocol­ates with whatever single ori­gin chocol­ate is being tempered that day, mixed with a little milk.  Giv­en they have many single ori­gin cacao beans (Trin­id­ad and Tobago, Peru, Domin­ic­an Repub­lic to name a few) there’s a good few days (weeks?) of tast­ing pleas­ure to be had (purely in the interests of devel­op­ing one’s pal­ate of course).

And fol­low­ing that, a craft beer at Gold­ings to wile away some week­end after­noon rain (and maybe some Pomodoro pizza to soak up all this tip­pling) and as a finale if not yet slosh­ing, a cof­fee from Red Rab­bit Roast­ery (with a com­puls­ory salted car­a­mel cook­ie for dessert).

A whole degust­a­tion exper­i­ence with­in 50m in the Eva-Leeds lane.

My crys­tal ball pre­dicts craft beer chocol­ates from WCF being sold at Gold­ings some­time in the near future and maybe Fix and Fogg mak­ing an appear­ance in the lane as well (oth­er than via WCF as cur­rently).

Also watch out for the Caf­fein­a­tion NZ Fest­iv­al of cof­fee next week­end at Shed 6 incor­por­at­ing the NZ Barista Champs.  22 and 23 March.  Fol­low the aroma.