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Coffee and Wireless in Wellington

Posted in Asia Pacific, Beverage Banter, Coffee Business, Coffeehouses & Shops, Oceania, Technology, tagged clark's cafe, enigma, enigma coffee, esquire, esquire coffee, new zealand, perretts, perretts cafe, seattle, starbucks, wellington, wellington city library, wi-fi, wireless on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

When one has a laptop but no Internet access at home, finding places to connect to the Internet to check email and surf the web (i.e. if you don’t have a web enabled mobile phone) then becomes another part of your adjustment to life in New Zealand. Unlike in the US where there are plenty [...]

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Will That Be A Latte Or A Flat White?

Posted in Asia Pacific, Beverage Banter, Oceania, Tasting, Cupping & Other, tagged latte, new zealand, wellington, flat white, auckland, cafe latte, clark's cafe, wellington city library, australia, auckland international airport, fuel espressp, fuel on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »

There is one item you will find on every espresso menu here in New Zealand that you will not find anywhere else except Australia (at least as far as I know). This is the espresso drink known as a Flat White… which is the drink that I have been ordering since I came to the [...]

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New Zealand Coffee Culture, My First Impressions…

Posted in Asia Pacific, Beverage Banter, Coffee Business, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Oceania, tagged new zealand, wellington, flat white, auckland, enigma, havana coffee works, ernesto, cuba st, cuba district, cafe latte, havana, skillet on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This post has been a long time coming. For a while now, I have been looking forward to checking out the coffee culture in New Zealand. Part of the reason for this is because word on the street is that espresso is huge deal here. But little did I know what I was in for! [...]

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The Back Porch Café

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged back porch cafe, bacon and eggs, flat white, latte, new zealand, Oceania, tauranga, the back porch cafe, velvet coffee on May 21, 2009 | Comments Off

Our guest blogger Tina is German but lives and works in New Zealand. She enjoys the coffee culture in New Zealand and is sending posts of her espresso sojourn. Coming from a country where it is common to have ‘coffee and cake’ at around 4pm in the afternoon, I still haven’t managed to adjust to [...]

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Alimento in the Bay of Plenty

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged latte, tauranga, bay of plenty, new zealand, alimento, coffee supreme, wellington, Oceania on January 29, 2009 | Comments Off

Our guest blogger Tina is German but lives and works in New Zealand. She enjoys the coffee culture in New Zealand and is sending posts of her espresso sojourn There are a lot of cafes in the Bay of Plenty that I like for a number of different reasons. But if I had to pick [...]

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