I read all the reviews of St Ali and of course we had to go. However, I think we caught them on a bad day.

The service was very friendly, but extremely slow. We had to catch someones attention to get menus, then to order coffee and then to order food. We were seated in a neat little nook which was very well hidden, but that shouldn't be an excuse - the waiting staff should work with the floor plan.

My wife ordered hot chocolate. We found this to be just OK. It wasn't very creamy, it was quite thin and "watery" tasting.

The coffee was good, but I felt it was over extracted. I di...

It was until recently, impossible to get a decent coffee in Newmarket, Auckland. In fact you just couldn't. Kenzie and Mecca are two cafe's there who could give it away and I'd say they're ripping you off. As a shopping district, this has always been frustrating.

But now we are blessed with hidden little secret called Altezano. It is tucked away behind the Rialto complex just around the corner from Zambezi and Workshop.

These guys mean business. Altezano are coffee roasters and their off the shelf beans are really top notch. They also have an espresso bar at the top of Symonds St...

Being a tourist in London, I had to hear about this spot through the "coffee underground". Tucked away in SoHo there, Flat White is a quiet relief from madness that is London.

The name gives itself away to Kiwi's and Australians, who are the only people familiar with the term. Thankfully, Flat White does not disappoint. The coffee is a quality that you'd expect from the best of Melbourne. During my stay in London, I half a dozen strong flat white's and a couple of ristretto's. Flat white's were creamy and not too hot. The coffee itself was sweet - medium to dark roast - medium body b...

There's a dark little spot on Brunswick St in Fitzroy that some say is run by pot-head ex-hippie hacky sack bandits. I don't care. They make it the way I like it. Stuff so good I'd buy it from anyone who's peddling it - including festival-loving banana-smoking stick-throwing base-heads. A place where they don't take kindly to people who order skinny decafe latte with honey, or half-strength cappuccino. If you order that kind of beverage, then A Spot may not be your bag. You gotta order real stuff here. Espresso, ristretto or the Australian invention flat white are all acceptable. Sure,...