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Coffee Tea & Me – Redfern

19 May 2011 Cafe
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It’s a valid statement when someone says you’re either a coffee drinker or a tea drinker. Without a doubt I place myself in the coffee drinking basket. I love the concept of a character-filled tea house with its ambiance and rituals but the slap of caffeine is all I’m ever really wanting. After a brief visit [...]

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Just another day in Paris, France

29 April 2011 Coffee
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The last time we stayed in Paris was in a top-floor apartment on boulevard St-Germain overlooking the rooftops and the grandiose Notre Dame, a beautiful area saturated with chocolatiers, bakeries and bistro’s in its web of narrow cobbled alleys. This time it was on the other side of the Seine in the thick of the Marais/Pletzl district, an area [...]

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Le Gai Moulin – Paris, France

15 April 2011 France
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Arriving in Paris should have been fairly straight forward. The train pulled into Gare du Nord on schedule and by the time we got the Metro down to Marais it was verging on dusk and a heavy-looking sky turned into light rain. The apartment we booked many months prior was very much in the heart of [...]

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Lunch at 42° – Surry Hills

8 February 2011 Bars + Pubs
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An absolute glutton for punishment. Yes, I refer to myself.  The record-breaking week-long heatwave this town just endured was a bit of a killer, to say the least. 41°C out in the western ‘burbs and just over 42°C in the city. Crazy stuff. All I can say is without the recent installation of air-con in [...]

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Campos Coffee – Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

28 January 2011 Breakfast/Brunch
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On my recent visit to Brisbane, several days before those devastating floods ripped through the region, I made sure of stopping by the Campos cafe in The Valley. It was kind of on the way to where I was going so jumping off the airport train at Brunswick Street was no great set-back and being so early in the morning, let’s [...]

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Don Campos and The Cupping Room

23 December 2010 Alexandria
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In 2002 Campos Coffee opened the door to its tiny cafe in a Newtown backstreet with one thing in mind – serving consistently good coffee to its customers. This simple philosophy has made the business grow to the point at which it is today. Recently Campos opened a wholesale and retail store in Melbourne and a cafe in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley two yeas ago, [...]

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Borough Market – London, UK

5 December 2010 Cakes
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The first time I went to London was back in 2002 as part of an epic nine-month journey around the world. A journey that began in LA and meandered its way around Central America and a 2-week road/scuba trip around Cuba, up to New York, over to Europe & the UK down to Morocco, back up to Europe, the Middle [...]

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Fernandez & Wells – Soho, London UK

16 November 2010 Cafe
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The first I heard of this place was sitting in my Wellington hotel room, flicking through some travel mag in between marathon eating events as part of Wellington On A Plate 2010. The article I read was brief, just a couple of sentences describing a hip little coffee house in London’s Soho. I tore the page out [...]

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