Get here about once a year. The scene is pretty liquid with new cafes beginning and old ones disappearing or changing owners regularly. Anyway my favourite is Joe's Cafe...cunningly disguised to keep away the tourists. They serve l'affare. Vudu is also good.

Over the last few years many recommendations have come, but now we get to put them altogether for posterity. So come on D-Cup, Nelson et al.

Including Orange County and the valley.....Is there any good coffee here???

Never did a post on this so the comments may appear slowly over time....

Massive, wonderful city however good brew is far harder to find than one would assume. Tons of chains Nero, Starbucks et al. Yet where is the real coffee?? 

My favourite so far, [until the cultured Londoners begin to comment] is Carluccios at Market place [off Oxford]...but now they are all over the place. 

Hamilton is the base for guests at the Parachute Festival held each January. Will be there soon so....  Where to get coffee?

Jean Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?"

Brunetti is now one of the largest good cafes in the country but maybe to busy for some. Melboune however is rich in all things coffee so do any have a 5 cup rating? What are your favourites?

Cibo.....where else???

Should be no shortage here. Indeed New Zealand has led Australia in the coffe stakes for some time, although I would say both countries are on a par now. The Kiwis had a national cafe mag way before us....Anyway where do we go??

Just about to find out....will post my thoughts soon. Meanwhile anybody in the know?

 Welcome to a new blog initiative....The coffee search engine for travellers....We will, over the next few years, be listing increasing numbers of cities with direct links to the post on that city. This will keep reviews current as it will be easy to add more thoughts whenever anyone makes a discovery. Hopefully this will be a great resource for the on the road coffee-driven blogee.

I will however 'clean up' the comments as not all have stayed with the subject or even worse recommended stuff like.....'The coffee outside Coles.....'.    Allowing such comments to remain will of course lower the overall effectiveness and snob appeal of said post.....

Try to give a rating, ie 5 cups - The best you have ever had, down to one cup, ie, only if you are desperate. (Please note, probably the majority of coffee outlets are 'uncuppable' and should not be even mentioned in the comments, ie Starbucks etc.).

Merlo have their home here yet real jewels are hard to find.... Or are they??

Large city this yet for many years devoid of 3-5 cup establishments. Things have improved but on a per capita basis still lags a fair way behind Perth and Melbourne.

The trick is to know where to go......

Thanks for the comments on each of these locations...and watch out for D-Cup...a self-acknowledged expert and one of Australia's leading caffeine commentators..

Nice town, but where do you find the coffee? Try to give a rating, ie 5 cups - The best you have ever had, down to one cup - Only if you are desperate (Please note, probably the majority of coffee outlets are 'uncuppable' and should not be even mentioned in the comments, ie Starbucks).

As you can see from the 'Phil is speaking' sidebar, I will be in Europe next week. We are running a 500+ conference and then I am speaking at a leaders gathering in Randers nr Arhus, Denmark before heading for Malmo Sweden to be with this church on the weekend of the 25th. [I hope they speak english as well]

Now does anyone know where the best coffee is at any of these locations?????

 I will be in Wellington NZ with the Elim Church right in the middle of town. One of the benefits of the NZ capital is that I have never had a bad coffee there. If anyone knows however where the coffee of coffees is to be found in Wellington, I would like to be able to impress my hosts with being able to make the suggestion; lets go to..... Of course I will probably have to eat a large dish of humble pie - The Ashes, ( a silent tear ran down his cheek) and I sense a gloomy result for the Wallabies. I fear I will be made to pay dearly for the sporting sins of my countrymen.

Well it is official...Vancouver is my favourite city. Stayed last night downtown and early in the morning ran the sea wall around Stanley Park....then after a coffee...By the way I think I found the city's best cafe....I walked the town..West end, Robson st, Granville Island and markets...bought some wild boar and blueberry terrine...the gallery area...trees orange, waterways smooth as glass, mountains touched by snow...from downtown you can be on the top of the mountain ready to ski down in 30 minutes and the fields are floodlit open to 11 pm.

 

The online Australian coffee magazine. Mainly Sydney and Melbourne...... still it's a start.

A couple of blogee's were having a discussion in the comments section a few posts ago about the quality of coffee. They raised the question of the subjectivity of it all. The same is of course true for music, food, poetry indeed everthing else.

I think it interesting that there is a 'better'. That a fine Lafite Rothschild is superior to a cheap Rioja not just because the experts say it is but the majority of people, given the chance to drink both, would agree. Aristotle said that the excellent becomes the permanent in that once it is experienced it is never forgotten. We have this innate ability to recognise quality. Tha same is true for the awareness of right and wrong. I wonder where it all comes from? I wonder where it is all meant to lead?

Perhaps because we were created by He who is wonderful, we hear his echoes everywhere.