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Trade School Kitchen

Trade School Kitchen

On 20 August, Trade School Industries launched a project two years in the making: Trade School Kitchen, a café that employs former inmates. “We began by running barista courses out of a women’s prison,” says Lauren Tennent, Training and Employment Manager at Trade School Industries. “It got to a point where the training program was running really well, and the women were getting great skills out of it, but the employment pathways just weren’t there. So, we came up with the idea of opening a café to employ the women we train once released.”
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Williams Eatery

Charles Williams had been working for six years in an Auckland roaster doing wholesale until he simply got jealous of café owners and the connection they had with customers in the retail space. He started a small coffee shop in Auckland called Ceremony three years ago, and then saw the opportunity to lease a 100-seater restaurant in the city and start an all-day eatery with his brother, Patrick Williams. “We wanted to make specialty coffee approachable in the downtown corporate market we’re located in, and introduce customers to the way it’s sourced and roasted,” Charles says. 
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The Candy Shop

  When customers walk in the doors of The Candy Shop, they definitely won’t be hearing 50 Cents’ rendition of the song. Rather, Woo Hyung Lee, two-time New Zealand AeroPress Champion and venue Co-owner, says customers can expect to feel the euphoria he felt as a child when he first set upon a candy shop. “It’s all about happiness and excitement,” Lee says. “I love meeting people, making friends, drinking good coffee and food, and this is exactly what The Candy Shop is all about.”
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Pickle & Pie

Pickle & Pie is Wellington’s version of New York’s Katz’s Delicatessen. But rather than serving American-style filter, this new addition to Lombard Lane has upped the ante on its coffee, offering only espresso coffee.
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Supreme Supreme

Supreme Supreme has become a favourite coffee haven for Christchurch residents over the past 18 months. Its South Island General Manager Steve McGregor says having a staple place for Christchurch coffee
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Major Sprout

Major Sprout Owner David Lee has created an exciting dining destination in the heart of Auckland, and word is spreading. Major Sprout may be tucked away behind tall buildings in the “business
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7010 Your Local

The best way Claris Jones-White defines 7010 is a “testament to her home town” – made by locals, for locals, with all her favourite things in the one spot. “There is not one
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Little Merchants

Little Merchants is a tiny espresso bar with big aspirations. It’s only been open one year, but this 70-square-metre venue is born into a good family pedigree. Big sister Café Lumes and
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Rocket Espresso Bar

Ten years ago Rocket Espresso was the only venue on Grey Street serving coffee and food. Thanks to the development of Hamilton’s coffee culture, the street is now thriving with coffee shops
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Eighthirty High Street

White canvases are risky business. There’s an element of danger when it comes to splatters of food or red wine, but at Eighthirty Coffee Roasters’ new High Street venue in Auckland, they’re
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