Tag: coffee

Today is World Refugee Day

Many things are going on but for the cof­fee obsessed why not grab an extra cof­fee today at  the Peo­ples Cof­fee cafe in New­town. They’ll be donat­ing all of the pro­ceeds from the cafe today to MCLaSS — (Mul­ti-Cul­­tur­al Learn­ing & Sup­port Ser­vices). MCLaSS offers free edu­ca­tion and sup­port for adult refugees and migrants through begin­ner ESOL […]

Decaffinated but decent

One of the sad­dest parts about grow­ing old­er is dis­cov­er­ing that caf­feine and I are not good friends. This is heart­break­ing, because I love cof­fee and would hap­pi­ly drink it all day long if I could. But I can’t. And I don’t mean I have to ask Mon­terey to cut me off at four cups […]

seasons changing so it must be time for knack

I’m not sure about every­one else, but as a crafty per­son and lover of hand­made fairs where the focus is on local­ly designed and cre­at­ed items, I mea­sure my sea­sons by Knack Craft Mar­ket I know it’s autumn, not because of the weath­er, or the dates but because knack tells me so. Held at Berham­pore […]

Reviewing the review: Flight Hangar

Welling­ton has one dai­ly news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one restau­rant crit­ic, who cer­tain­ly has his own… dis­tinc­tive style. The Fly has decid­ed that David Bur­ton needs some account­abil­i­ty. Wel­come to this new series. What review: David Bur­ton on The Hangar David Bur­ton is bet­ter than you: 3/5 “Yet despite our endur­ing Kiwi attach­ment to […]

Kristmas knack

There is only 40 days till christ­mas. See did i scare you? i scared myself look­ing up that one, but it’s also why I’m a lit­tle relieved that Krist­mas knack is on this Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 16th. Because it gives a girl a chance to go shop­ping for christ­mas presents, but it’s still far away enough from […]

Coffee for John Key and America’s Cup fans

Tonight we went to the open­ing of the Nespres­so “bou­tique” on Lambton Quay, because frankly, we’d go to the open­ing of envelopes if they involved Louis Roed­er­er cham­pagne(1) (although a num­ber of peo­ple we know turned down the invi­ta­tion, sent us links to a Buz­zfeed arti­cle about dis­pos­able pods and then com­mis­sioned haikus) and it was […]

Fairtrade coffee that you make for yourself

Fair­trade Fort­night may be over, but that does­n’t mean it’s not some­thing to still think about. When some­one else is mak­ing the cof­fee for you, you may be drawn to par­tic­u­lar beans because of their fair trade sta­tus. Why not apply the same cri­te­ria when you’re drink­ing it at home or work? Hand­i­ly the good peo­ple […]

Another season, another reason for making coffee

How hard can it be to make a real­ly good cup of cof­fee? The cor­rect answer, as any Welling­ton­ian knows, is “Real­ly bloody hard!” A good barista is a thing to be cher­ished, and the best of the best come togeth­er every year for the Huh­ta­ma­ki New Zealand Barista Cham­pi­onship to show off their skills […]

cuckoo for caffeine

You may be wan­der­ing along the water­front lat­er in the year when a crowd of large gen­tle­men in colour­ful cot­ton knit shirts may ask for direc­tions to some­thing called the “RWC Par­ty Zone”. And there­fore, as a polite host want­i­ng only the best for guests to our city, you may direct them to Cuck­oo, this […]

Lamason

There are many many ways to make a decent cup of cof­fee. We are see­ing some of these alter­nate meth­ods return­ing to com­mer­cial use around Welling­ton’s more inter­est­ing cafés: the Swiss Gold; the Chemex; the V60; the cold drip… and the siphon. Dave Lama­son, for­mer­ly Peo­ples Cof­fee’s barista train­er, is pas­sion­ate about the siphon. So […]