12 May 2011

Who does Canberra's best coffee?

| Amanda Whitley
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Whether it’s your morning pick-me-up, social lubricant, or lifelong passion, few things are more evocative than coffee. And as the Canberra days turn colder, the city’s cafés will see a growing flock of people come through their doors in search of a warming espresso beverage. Luckily for Canberrans, there’s no better time than now to find a great coffee and café experience in our city.

Two years ago, Tim Riley created Decaf Sucks, along with the rest of the caffeine-loving crowd at Icelab, as a place for them all to record their coffee drinking journeys. It has since become a vibrant and considerably useful resource for location-based café and coffee reviews. It is a place for all Canberra caffiends to help each other find the good coffee and avoid the bad.

Since it is homegrown here in Canberra, it also has the internet’s best coverage of cafés in our city, with 66 people having contributed over 335 reviews for 174 different cafés. Today, let’s take a tour of some of Canberra’s standout cafés, based on the opinions of the Decaf Sucks reviewers.

The hottest café in Canberra right now would have to be Lonsdale Street Roasters in Braddon. They’ve hit on a mix of great in-house roasted coffee, simple and well made food from a wood oven, and an always-bustling friendly atmosphere. Heading into Civic, we have Bean in the City, a hole in the wall that is big on coffee, as well as selling the best portuguese tarts in the city. Over in the west of the city, head into Harvest (the newest member of the Kingston Grind, Group 7 and Tonicfamily) and give one of their syphon or cold press coffees a try.

If you’re in the south of the city, be sure to try Lava in Weston, for what could be the best coffee south of the lake. Or if you’re after a meal and a place to hang out a while, head to A Bite To Eat, A Drink As Well, where you can enjoy the expansive space filled with raw brick, comfy lounges and 1970s-kitsch furniture, or soak up the sun in the courtyard out the back. It’s also a good place for a beer if your visit lingers into the afternoon.

You needn’t despair if you ever find yourself hankering for a caffeine hit in Fyshwick, since you can just head to Ona Coffee on Wollongong St, where they are serious about good coffee. Heading back north, the Belconnen Fresh Food Markets offers a couple of good coffee options among the fruit and veg, in Beppe’s Tuscan Kitchen and As Nature Intended.

Finally, there’s no dearth of decent coffee if you’re heading for a drive outside Canberra. Try Cork Street Gallery Cafe in Gundaroo for a rustic outdoor dining area, where you can enjoy some delicious pizza with your coffee. In Bungendore, The Provincial Pantry has received much high praise from the Decaf Sucks reviewers, and The Albion in Braidwood looks to be the pick of a town that is already bursting with tasty food and drink options.

While that should certainly keep you busy for a while, we’ve only just scratched the surface. There’s plenty of other good coffee to discover in Canberra, and Decaf Sucks can help you do it. Visit the site in your desktop browser and you can enter a location to see all the reviews for cafés in that area. If you’re out and about, visit Decaf Sucks on your iPhone for an optimised experience that can show you the cafés around your precise location.

Tim and the lads from Icelab made Decaf Sucks as simple as possible for people to contribute, and are keen to get more people writing some reviews. All you need is an opinion to share and a star rating, nothing more. Better still, logging in is easy through connecting your Twitter or Facebook accounts. Your reviews will not only serve as a handy coffee diary, but also could be instrumental in helping introduce other people to fantastic new café experiences, whether in Canberra or further afield.

For all those times when you’re happy to stay at home, Decaf Sucks can also help you to drink great coffee. Last year they launched their coffee bean subscription service:Dispatch, from Decaf Sucks. They’ve teamed up with the Lonsdale Street Roasters to deliver a fresh and tasty bag of coffee beans to your door every month. They introduce different beans every month, making Dispatch a great way to discover new coffee flavours. It’s an easy way to keep your cupboard stocked with fresh beans, and also makes for excellent gift idea. Check it out.

Do you agree with Decaf Sucks’ top drops? Who do you think makes the best coffee in the Capital region?

First published on HerCanberra.

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Frank of Van der Veen coffee now has a shop at Mawson, just up from Bruno’s and the Italian bakery. They sell beans (roasted on the premises) and they make a very good flat white. I highly recommend a visit!

poetix said :

dpm said :

poetix said :

I admire your passion! My pet hate is overly hot milk, where it is impossible to taste the coffee.

Imagine how good your first cup of coffee will taste, after you’re better!

Hey, on a side note Poetix, you aren’t by any chance, a Goscinny and Uderzo fan? 😉

Did they invent Scaletrix?

Maybe! They’ve proabbly done lots of cool stuff!

dpm said :

poetix said :

I admire your passion! My pet hate is overly hot milk, where it is impossible to taste the coffee.

Imagine how good your first cup of coffee will taste, after you’re better!

Hey, on a side note Poetix, you aren’t by any chance, a Goscinny and Uderzo fan? 😉

Did they invent Scaletrix?

poetix said :

I admire your passion! My pet hate is overly hot milk, where it is impossible to taste the coffee.

Imagine how good your first cup of coffee will taste, after you’re better!

Hey, on a side note Poetix, you aren’t by any chance, a Goscinny and Uderzo fan? 😉

Catty said :

Sadly, I can’t drink coffee at the moment ; a stomach complaint sees to that. But one thing that irks is the inability of many staff to know the difference between a capuccino and a flat white. A capuccino is NOT a flat white with a bit of chocolate on the top!. I used to get so sick of asking for “a capuccino with extra thick foam, please”. No, I am not one of those who hankers for the frothy Mont Blanc meringues still found in some country truck stops along the Hume, but I know that most definitions of capuccino call for a quite thick collar of dense foam. If I wanted a thin, 2 mm bit of foam I would have asked for a flat white in the first place. Having said that, and being the proud possessor (if not the most skilled operator) of a very fine espresso machine, I know that it is no mean feat to produce a thick hed of dense foam, but I do keep trying (for others to enjoy, that is…)

I admire your passion! My pet hate is overly hot milk, where it is impossible to taste the coffee.

Imagine how good your first cup of coffee will taste, after you’re better!

dpm said :

Too true. Most so called coffee ‘snobs’ drink lattes or cappuccinos…..You don’t like black coffee? Then you don’t really like coffee at all – you actually like coffee-flavoured milk…

Who is the snob?

Dear pot,

You are black

Regards,
your friend kettle.

O2 in Woden. The service as well as the coffee.

Joey’s at Watson shops does a very tidy cup of coffee. There’s a sign up advertising whatever fancy pants blend it is but I can’t remember it for the life of me.

I can still get it up without exploiting a third wold individual

Sadly, I can’t drink coffee at the moment ; a stomach complaint sees to that. But one thing that irks is the inability of many staff to know the difference between a capuccino and a flat white. A capuccino is NOT a flat white with a bit of chocolate on the top!. I used to get so sick of asking for “a capuccino with extra thick foam, please”. No, I am not one of those who hankers for the frothy Mont Blanc meringues still found in some country truck stops along the Hume, but I know that most definitions of capuccino call for a quite thick collar of dense foam. If I wanted a thin, 2 mm bit of foam I would have asked for a flat white in the first place. Having said that, and being the proud possessor (if not the most skilled operator) of a very fine espresso machine, I know that it is no mean feat to produce a thick hed of dense foam, but I do keep trying (for others to enjoy, that is…)

creative_canberran10:50 pm 21 Dec 11

Beanhunter is a site showing some potential and there’s a mobile app too. Has been very useful on more than one occasion.

i like the coffee at crust at the fyshwick markets http://www.fyshwickfreshfoodmarkets.com.au/crust-bakery

creative_canberran12:44 am 27 Aug 11

A certain local coffee shop (not a full cafe, they just have coffee) recently made a startling admission to me. Even though their menu has latte, flat white and cappuccino, they serve them all the same relying on no one noticing. Now admittedly, they all cost the same so it’s not like they’re charging for something they’re not delivering. Still, they are distinct coffee, the differences between which have probably been diluted by the slop from coffee chains over time.

When I later mentioned this at another well known cafe, the owner (following an expletive) described it as fraud.

Interesting.

creative_canberran2:03 pm 20 Jun 11

braddonboy said :

And further south in Tuggeranong is the Jindebah coffee shop. Jindebah also has a roasting house and coffee shop in Mitchell. Use their beans in the DeLonghi Magnifica at work and ground for the plunger at home.

Their beans are good but the coffee they actually make in house is about as bad as you will ever taste. They use their own beans yet it’s more bitter than from Maccas and less flavourful… obviously staff training never covered not burning the puck.
Also doesn’t help that the staff at Tuggeranong stand around outside in front of the door smoking. “I’ll have a latte, hold the cancer?”

And further south in Tuggeranong is the Jindebah coffee shop. Jindebah also has a roasting house and coffee shop in Mitchell. Use their beans in the DeLonghi Magnifica at work and ground for the plunger at home.

luther_bendross1:33 pm 20 Jun 11

puggy said :

LegalNut said :

Without a doubt it is the Lonsdale Street Roasters.

I love what they are trying to do, and the fitout seems cool, but I’m not paying anything to be served coffee while sitting on a milk crate (that they don’t even own) next to long haired rusty fixie riding louts. When I eventually open that place of mine (can’t help it, it’s in the blood) I will have a sign: “Cyclists: No brakes, no service.”

They coffee they make there is sensational, without question. The fixie-riding hipsters sitting outside can all go f–k off. Gears were invented for a reason you biscuits.

😀 I’m looking forward to trying out all the recommended coffee shops. I love the stuff! Can’t get too much.

LegalNut said :

Without a doubt it is the Lonsdale Street Roasters.

I love what they are trying to do, and the fitout seems cool, but I’m not paying anything to be served coffee while sitting on a milk crate (that they don’t even own) next to long haired rusty fixie riding louts. When I eventually open that place of mine (can’t help it, it’s in the blood) I will have a sign: “Cyclists: No brakes, no service.”

johnboy said :

Sorry skid, the scots are very firm that one part in three water is recommended.

Unlocks the flavours.

Somewhere this morning I read about a drink you can order in NYC now: the bin Laden. Two shots and a splash of water.

Gungahlin Al said :

“What is the best coffee machine under $500 out there?”

I think Choice magazine did a coffee machine review earlier in the year.

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/household/kitchen/coffee-machines/manual-and-semi-automatic-espresso-machines-review-and-compare.aspx

But you need to be (or know!) a member to read it. I believe some cheaper ones did well… Anyone a Choice member?

Gungahlin Al4:09 pm 18 May 11

Oh and on the subject of coffee, Kate Rowe was a hit at the National Folk Festival, a lot because of Space Rabbitts from Brocklevoons, but also struck a chord with Coffee My Lover.

Gungahlin Al4:02 pm 18 May 11

Gungahlin Al said :

Personally I find it hard to go by the cappucino I pump out of my 14yo home espresso machine every morning. And the price is to die for.

Well that’s what I get for bragging. Aforesaid long-lived coffee machine just decided to die. Crap.

Now I need to start a new thread “What is the best coffee machine under $500 out there?” cos there’s an absolute pile of them out there these days… Recommendations for quiet operation, quick frothing, ease of cleaning, ability to pour into mugs, and of course produce a good cuppa cheerful accepted.

Holierthanthou10:08 am 16 May 11

EvanJames said :

I heard somewhere that they invented Instant Coffee during the war, it was called Coffee Substitute and made from things like chicory root and dandelion root.

Coffee substitutes were used during rationing during and after WWII, but coffee substitutes were in use well before this. Instanto (the type of coffee drunk by peasants because they do not have time to grind their own beans) was invented well before WWI and WWII.

Coffee substitutes made from such things as described above can be found in abundance in supermarkets and health food stores.

Holierthanthou8:49 pm 14 May 11

Drinking whisky neat might seem like a good way to act macho in front of people that don’t know much about whisky, however most malts have their tasting improved by the addition of water. Just don’t slop in too much.

Ice in scotch?
Water in scotch?

You’re all a bunch of heathens and blaspheming sons of bitches.
The only thing that belongs with scotch is a glass to keep it in.

Sorry skid, the scots are very firm that one part in three water is recommended.

Unlocks the flavours.

Pommy bastard said :

This is the old “nothing but ice in my scotch” argument.

There is no such argument. The only thing that should be added to Scotch is another Scotch, or a drop of water, perhaps, to a very peaty single malt, in order to release the aroma.(Though do I believe the lower order do add water to their blended brands in an attempt at sofixstikation.)

Ice? You sir are a barbarian and a peasant.

PB, you appear to be a scholar and a gentleman. Or at least you understand fine malt.

I have a 10 year old Ardbeg on my desk that I think I’ll open tonight, and I never thought I’d say this, but I’ll raise my glass to a Pommy Bastard as I sample it. 🙂

Bugger coffee.

Pommy bastard2:28 pm 14 May 11

This is the old “nothing but ice in my scotch” argument.

There is no such argument. The only thing that should be added to Scotch is another Scotch, or a drop of water, perhaps, to a very peaty single malt, in order to release the aroma.(Though do I believe the lower order do add water to their blended brands in an attempt at sofixstikation.)

Ice? You sir are a barbarian and a peasant.

Holierthanthou8:20 am 14 May 11

Ice is made of cool water

Try applying that line of resaoning to the Titantic. As diastrous and tragic as adding to whisky.

I’m pretty sure scotch is best served with drambuie over ice. Why drink a single ingredient when you can treat yourself to the entire cocktail?

Why waste one ingredent when you can waste two?

BimboGeek said :

I’m pretty sure scotch is best served with drambuie over ice. Why drink a single ingredient when you can treat yourself to the entire cocktail?

to savour the perfection of those ingredients?

and no-one has mentioned loui’s – still briliant coffee, esp for espresso…

I’m pretty sure scotch is best served with drambuie over ice. Why drink a single ingredient when you can treat yourself to the entire cocktail?

boneymaloney1:56 pm 13 May 11

LSWCHP said :

Ice in Scotch? Ice?? In Scotch?? […] on rare occasions a few drops of cool water.

Ice is made of cool water. Bam!

Holierthanthou1:52 pm 13 May 11

“nothing but ice in my scotch”

Ughhh, disgusting. There is one and strictly only one excuse for serving scotch whisky with ice. This is when travelling to Japan where you order it by asking for a drink called “onzarokku” (because it sounds so funny).

Otherwise, scotch whisky should only be consumed with water. Preferably spring water although de-chlorinated tap water will suffice at a pinch (provided you have a stat dec stating you tried to access proper spring water). As the ancient Greeks knew, only barbarians do not cut their bevvies with water.

Russ said :

The only way to judge how good a coffee shop is by a straight single shot espresso (short black) – it’s the base of all other coffee drinks with nothing to hide or dilute the flavour.

dpm said :

Most so called coffee ‘snobs’ drink lattes or cappuccinos. These are basically glorified warm, coffee-flavoured milkshakes. To decide on a coffee it really should be black. Otherwise it is like trying to decide which is the nicest of 6 different glasses of red wine, after you have added lemonade and ice to each glass.

But the funny thing is that the best barista I know will deliberately pour differently for espresso, cappuccino or piccolo, adding more bitterness to the drinks with more milk in them and restricting the pour on a piccolo by using slightly more or less coffee (and adjusting the grind) to get a slightly richer or gentler pour… So it basically espresso isn’t the foundation of the milky drinks at all and it really comes down to which drink you feel like drinking on a particular day.

That said, there’s plenty of places that are happy to claim that their coffee is the best and it isn’t. Did you seriously expect people to advertise “crap coffee, the way you peasants like it” ???

boneymaloney said :

dpm said :

You don’t like black coffee? Then you don’t really like coffee at all – you actually like coffee-flavoured milk…

This is the old “nothing but ice in my scotch” argument. Fine, next time I get a coffee (or a scotch) I’ll get it neat and see how we go.

Ice in Scotch? Ice?? In Scotch?? Stone the crows and starve the flamin’ lizards. If someone were to approach my malt with an ice cube then fisticuffs would ensue. The only thing that should ever be placed in good malt is more malt, or on rare occasions a few drops of cool water.

Whoa…hang on…I seem to have strayed off topic…

Personally, I love Cosmorex Coffee!

Silo in Kingston does a great brew with this coffee.

I heard somewhere that they invented Instant Coffee during the war, it was called Coffee Substitute and made from things like chicory root and dandelion root.

was a time, not long ago here in Aus where coffee meant Instant Coffee. Real coffee was Special and a rare treat.

1. Enter Cafe – better coffee than the recycled drainwater served at Harvest around the corner (sorry OP) and staff are firendly and not as rude as Harvest either.
2. +1 for Bean in the City hole in the wall – don’t need any flashy cafe or location to make great coffee.

Gungahlin Al12:55 pm 13 May 11

georgesgenitals said :

I’ve got two words for you: International Roast.

Gag choke gasp. Coffee my lilly white bottom. Sweeping off the coconut factory floor, more like.

EvanJames said :

This is off the beaten track, but the best and most consistently good coffee I’ve found in the region is from a plant nursery in Pialligo. Serious.

There’s an asian guy at a nursery called Silver Hills, just up from Stonehenge, who makes really, really good coffee. Just coffee, they usually have a cake or two in a case, and that’s it.

They got a mention in that occasional coffee column in the Canberra Times Food supplement, too.

So I have heard from others.

Personally I find it hard to go by the cappucino I pump out of my 14yo home espresso machine every morning. And the price is to die for.

1. Coffee Guru Gungahlin
2. Octane in Lonsdale Street Civic
3. Home Roast made by Mick Motion- Wise T/ As Arabica Magic

Russ said :

The only way to judge how good a coffee shop is by a straight single shot espresso (short black) – it’s the base of all other coffee drinks with nothing to hide or dilute the flavour. I’ve been to many coffee places that people claim make the “best coffee” only to be served a short black that is bitter dishwater.

+1 esp. for judging good coffee!

boneymaloney12:17 pm 13 May 11

dpm said :

You don’t like black coffee? Then you don’t really like coffee at all – you actually like coffee-flavoured milk…

This is the old “nothing but ice in my scotch” argument. Fine, next time I get a coffee (or a scotch) I’ll get it neat and see how we go.

Kerryhemsley12:07 pm 13 May 11

dpm said :

Russ said :

The only way to judge how good a coffee shop is by a straight single shot espresso (short black) – it’s the base of all other coffee drinks with nothing to hide or dilute the flavour. I’ve been to many coffee places that people claim make the “best coffee” only to be served a short black that is bitter dishwater.

Too true. Most so called coffee ‘snobs’ drink lattes or cappuccinos. These are basically glorified warm, coffee-flavoured milkshakes. To decide on a coffee it really should be black. Otherwise it is like trying to decide which is the nicest of 6 different glasses of red wine, after you have added lemonade and ice to each glass.
You don’t like black coffee? Then you don’t really like coffee at all – you actually like coffee-flavoured milk…

What a load of BS. A good cappucino should have a coffee base and a small amount frothy milk on top. The milkshakes you refer to come from poor skills and a trend started by franchises such as Starbucks and Gloria Jeans for adding flavouring to coffee.

Russ said :

The only way to judge how good a coffee shop is by a straight single shot espresso (short black) – it’s the base of all other coffee drinks with nothing to hide or dilute the flavour. I’ve been to many coffee places that people claim make the “best coffee” only to be served a short black that is bitter dishwater.

Too true. Most so called coffee ‘snobs’ drink lattes or cappuccinos. These are basically glorified warm, coffee-flavoured milkshakes. To decide on a coffee it really should be black. Otherwise it is like trying to decide which is the nicest of 6 different glasses of red wine, after you have added lemonade and ice to each glass.
You don’t like black coffee? Then you don’t really like coffee at all – you actually like coffee-flavoured milk…

creative_canberran11:45 am 13 May 11

boneymaloney said :

I propose to call it “brown”.

To whit:
“Would anyone like a coffee? Oh, I’m sorry, we only have International Roast left. Would anyone like a cup of brown?”

Best enjoyed as an accompaniment to a serving of soylent green?

boneymaloney11:23 am 13 May 11

georgesgenitals said :

I’ve got two words for you: International Roast.

My dear Genitals, International Roast tastes like someone boiled a turd in a sock. I think Int. Roast is a new drink which shouldn’t be called “coffee” at all. I propose to call it “brown”.

To whit:
“Would anyone like a coffee? Oh, I’m sorry, we only have International Roast left. Would anyone like a cup of brown?”

Delissio in Braddon makes a damn good coffee.

Note to those Barrista/Cafe owner/operators:

If you can’t consistently deliver an espresso in under 3 minutes, you should not be in the business.

The only way to judge how good a coffee shop is by a straight single shot espresso (short black) – it’s the base of all other coffee drinks with nothing to hide or dilute the flavour. I’ve been to many coffee places that people claim make the “best coffee” only to be served a short black that is bitter dishwater.

As mentioned before, for consistently outstanding coffee, Silver Hills nursery in Pialligo is the hidden gem of Canberra – I think part of that is probably because only 2 guys make the coffee – with other places it can be a gamble as to who happens to be on the machine.

I’m happy to confirm that Bean in the City is open and trading as usual. I walked past there this morning to check. It was hard work resisting the portuguese tart 🙂

colourful sydney racing identity8:16 am 13 May 11

georgesgenitals said :

I’ve got two words for you: International Roast.

I’ve got two words for you, nut if I use them my comment will be moderated 🙂

So many to choose from in Canberra….Bean in the city was/is my favourite… are they still there?

Special G said :

I do – consistently good with a bit of latte art thrown in as well.

Beppes at the Belconnen markets make a great coffee.
Didn’t Bean in the City close?

I’d heard that, too…but am assured that it was open just the other day…

I do – consistently good with a bit of latte art thrown in as well.

Beppes at the Belconnen markets make a great coffee.
Didn’t Bean in the City close?

troll-sniffer5:54 pm 12 May 11

There’s a little known place on the eighth floor of AMP House in Hobart Place. It’s just next to a solicitor’s office and apparently does enough business just from the building to do quite well. The name is Mahreeah Kwanza or something like that which means Sacred Coffee in Swahili. The Kenyan dude who runs it has an exclusive arrangement with his brother who manages one of the largest coffee exporting franchises in Kenya. He imports his water from a spring in the Tallaganda State Forest which has the same specific properties as the Nakuru water close to where the coffee is originally grown. When you get out of the lifts turn left and follow the corridor around, hours are 8.30 to 3.30 Mon-Fri. If you can find a better coffee in Canberra I’d like to know where.

Double Shott Deakin Shops

Pommy bastard5:20 pm 12 May 11

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

Not a coffee drinker are you?

Ah, got me there. Hardly ever touch the stuff unless I’m at a cafe which I know cannot make a decent cup of Rosy Lee.

[sheer horror] twice in Australia I have been presented with a cup of warm water with a tea bag NEXT to it, in lieu of a “cup of tea” [/sheer horror]

Kerryhemsley4:34 pm 12 May 11

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

Little wonder the coffee and food in England is sh**te.

The Fish Shack in Civic make a good, hot and strong coffee in one size only.

georgesgenitals4:11 pm 12 May 11

I’ve got two words for you: International Roast.

colourful sydney racing identity4:10 pm 12 May 11

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

Not a coffee drinker are you?

Me! I brought home a Senseo coffee maker from Europe. Yum!

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

There’s a fair bit of barrista coffee out there which is worse than instant. That’s the sad thing.

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

Only when you stop with the beer “nonsense” and start drinking VB.

This is off the beaten track, but the best and most consistently good coffee I’ve found in the region is from a plant nursery in Pialligo. Serious.

There’s an asian guy at a nursery called Silver Hills, just up from Stonehenge, who makes really, really good coffee. Just coffee, they usually have a cake or two in a case, and that’s it.

They got a mention in that occasional coffee column in the Canberra Times Food supplement, too.

Personally, I’m a tea girl…I know, I’m a freak.

DarkLadyWolfMother2:50 pm 12 May 11

Pommy bastard said :

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

I agree. The same goes for tea. Buy the cheapest and ignore the whole “PG tips” nonsense.

Eyeball In A Quart Jar Of Snot2:49 pm 12 May 11

Nescafe isn’t coffee.

It’s the essence of coffee.

When I want a beer, I don’t want to drink the ‘essence of beer’.

Pommy bastard2:46 pm 12 May 11

It’s coffee FFS, far to much coffee w@nk@ge going on these days. get a cup of Nescafe and be done with it.

Croissant D’or, while technically a bakery, do my fave coffee in the interchange.

Deja Brew and Dobinsons for myself.

Without a doubt it is the Lonsdale Street Roasters. Not only is the coffee made well, the range of really good blends and single origin roasts is great. Further, the coffee is great value at $3.50 for a large where others will charge you at least $4 for the same. I am also a big fan of the food with their toasted panini sandwiches being well thought through and different from the mainstream. In fact, one of my biggest regrets in taking a job in Belconnen is that I can’t visit the Roasters for coffee in the morning.

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