Coffee & Drinks in LA I was lucky to be staying in close proximity to a range of good coffee options during my time in Los Angeles. The first place I visited was Andante Coffee on South Grand Avenue. It was a really impressive little place with just a few seats for sit-in customers and …

Cognoscenti Coffee Los Angeles! After a fairly inauspicious start involving me going mildly apeshit at a 7-Eleven worker and making a bunch of new friends in the process, my first day in the city had important business on the agenda aside from food, for a change. I needed to buy a winter coat ahead of …

Coffee & Drinks in Mexico City On reflection, I probably stayed in the wrong part of town during my time in Mexico City. This wasn’t a particular problem as taxis were a very inexpensive way to scoot about the place. But I didn’t really have much in the way of coffee options to start my …

Coffee and Drinks in New Zealand On each of my three city stops in New Zealand I found a profusion of excellent cafes coupled with very good restaurant coffee. In Auckland, the excellent Allpress was an obvious stop on my journey. Allpress is of course served in the excellent Castello in Edinburgh, so it was …

Black & White It was a very quiet Sunday morning so after a little stroll around central Christchurch, I headed to get some breakfast at the Black & White Coffee Cartel in Victoria Street. Roasting on site, I’d heard good things about their coffee so that was the initial priority. I tried their espresso, as …