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.