Cafe Scene

Kokako

  Style and design are obvious considerations at Kokako café and roastery in Auckland. “In our first fitout in Parnell I was inspired by Melbourne’s use of upcycled lights
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Dr Dax Kitchen

Given coffee’s universal reputation as a cognitive kick-starter, the idea of a café as part of the Melbourne Brain Centre seems like a natural fit. Located on the ground floor of the home
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The Hardware Store Cafe and Eatery

Don’t be mistaken if you visit the newly opened Hardware Store Café for a few nuts and bolts, and instead leave with a delicious coffee or breakfast. “Lots of older patrons come
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Toby’s Estate Flinders Lane

With stores in Sydney, Singapore and Brooklyn, it was time for leading speciality coffee roasters Toby’s Estate to bring their unique touch to Australia’s coffee capital, with the opening of their Flinders Lane store.
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Nineteen hundred and five

In the heart of Northbridge, Perth, is a new social enterprise café changing lives one coffee at a time. Operating out of the refurbished Schruth’s heritage-listed building, 1905 provides
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Aroma’s Café

Image credit: Rob Burnett Images History runs deep in the Tsakirellis family. Aroma’s café owners Mary and George Tsakirellis have been fueling Launceston coffee lovers for the past 13 years in the same building Mary’s father owned since she was 12 years old.
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Dramanti Artisan Roasters

Some of coffee’s best-kept secrets are those of the beaten track. Take Dramanti Artisan Roasters in the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum for instance – nestled deep in the corner of Queensland’s
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Hummingbird Central

  In the heart of Christchurch is a café that resembles a Lego set more so than a café. But that’s the unique part of Hummingbird Central in Re:Start. It’s a life-size,
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Café Shenkin

By Aimee Sics There’s certainly no shortage of trendy cafés in Sydney’s inner west. Café Shenkin has been in the leafy neighbourhood of Erskineville for quite some time and has cemented itself as more than just a hip hangout.
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Curious Goose

Green beans and a pineapple plant sit idle on the table bench. Old posters of stamps hang on the walls and a wooden ladder rests on the bookshelf. Curious? It’s just what café Co-Owner Beau Field wants
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