Phillip Musumeci: My Coffee Shop Ratings

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My Coffee Shop Ratings

Intro Rationale: There is a rationale? Maybe ... these cappuccino ratings provide basic survival information of a coffee kind with regular recalibrations in Melbourne (Lygon St).
Fair Trade Coffee: There is a more serious side to coffee production world-wide --- see the OXFAM web site which lists Australian roasters who process fair trade coffee. Note that roasters processing Australian grown coffee could be considered fair (as is this local cocoa grower).
Local Coffee Bean Sources
- THE COFFEE WORKS with their headquarters in Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands, which is where you can view coffee making (and chocolate making) as well as sample blends such as Black Mountain. (google maps)
- SKYBURY TROPICAL PLANTATION with a great restaurant in the coffee centre is located about 10km from Mareeba. Dining offers great views and they also have fancy chocolate. (google maps)
- TICHUM CREEK COFFEE FARM - seems like it will be good (coffee, cafe, etc) but haven't managed to visit yet. (google maps)
- JAQUES COFFEE - seems like it will be good (coffee, cafe, etc) but have yet to sample it myself (their products are in some food store chains). (google maps)
- INDUSTRY ONE COFFEE - is a Cairns business focussed on roasting great coffee (including coffee from the Atherton Tablelands), and also provides a speedy text-and-collect service (sms orders to 0447 066 061, collect from 110 Scott Street, Bungalow).

Cairns Coffee Ratings

Dolce & Caffe (street view) Shop 1, Mantra Esplanade, 1 Shields St. Cairns 0740412124. Segafredo coffee & great fresh food! (Recommended by me) TCP interview with Kelos	9
Fusion Organics Cnr Aplin and Grafton Streets, Cairns. 0740511388 Great organics-inspired food & Genovese coffee.	8.9
Billy's Coffee Crate59 Sheridan St. weekdays Rusty's Market Friday-Sunday, Cairns. Featuring a custom local coffee blend and options of local Mungalli Milk or soy. (Recommended by me)	9
Barista Sista of Cairns Rusty's Market Friday-Sunday, Cairns. (Recommended by Charlie, popular with my friends)	8.99
Caffiend 5/78 Grafton Street, Cairns. 0740515522 16 deg 55'23.8"S, 145 deg 46'32.0"E Offering a Melbournian atmosphere (& coffee appreciation sessions).	9
Rehab 46 Lake Street, Cairns. (Recommended by Claudine, it is very good, need one more test)	?
Bang Espresso 14 Spence St, Cairns QLD 4870. 07 40517770	?
Twelve BC City Square, Cnr Shields and Lake Streets, Cairns. 0740312912	8.8
Nu Nu Restaurant 123 Williams Esplanade, Palm Cove. 0740591884 Featuring Vittoria coffee.	8.7
Donnini's Ciao Italia The Pier, Cairns.
Other Coffee Ratings
Brunetti's (street view) (youtube recommendations by jpap and evan) *** Cnr Lygon and Faraday Streets, Carlton, Melbourne. One of the best places for coffee in Melbourne, offering Vittoria coffee. Definitely a great source of other delicacies!
Brother Baba Budan 359 Little Bourke St., Melbourne, and see also Seven Seeds at 114 Berkeley Street, Carlton and De Clieu at 187 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (Recommended by BFLS)
PRONTO on Flinders 335 Flinders lane, Melbourne. Winner of recent Barista and Roasting awards! (Recommended by Evan G)
Cafe Trevi Lygon Street, Carlton, Melbourne. Cafe Trevi is a reconsecrated MacDonalds! (Recommended by pls)
Degraves Espresso Bar 23 Degraves Street, Melbourne (Recommended by JPAP)
Pasticceria Papa 145 Ramsay St., Haberfield, Sydney Sweets Sweets Sweets (Recommended by Amber D)
Bar Milazzo Shop 6 Fayworth House, 379-383 Pitt Street, Sydney 2000. 0292648644 Offering Lavazza coffee.
Dominion Coffee 1/ 6 Stokes Street, Townsville 4810 (Recommended by Evan G, very startup compatible)

Chocolate
- Local cocoa growing and chocolate making: Daintree Estates entered production in 2011. Ingredients such as sugar are also sourced locally.
- If I rated drinking hot chocolates, then Brunetti's (194-204 Faraday Street, Carlton 3053, Australia) and Angelina's (226, rue de Rivoli, Paris 75001) would be at the top of the list. If I rated chocolate fondants, well I guess that list would definitely start with Café Trésor, 5 rue du Trésor, 75004 Paris (thanks to A. Lindley). And if I was looking for coffee (and other fine food) in Vienna, I would have to visit Café Hawelka (thanks to Claudine M).
Other Info/Coffee Sources
- True Brew - Gail Sedorkin reveals the art of a good coffee and her top 10 cafe choices in the CBD (Feb 2010 Cairns);
- Twelve BC (i.e. Twelve Bar and Cafe) with Numero Uno coffee at city square - found by MM;
- Nu Nu Restaurant (Palm Cove) with Vittoria coffee and great food - found by A. and C. Perez. See also Travel Insider.
- Cup & Away are considered the best mobile coffee in the Cairns region - operated by Vince.
- orangerie PATISSERIE has no coffee at all. But there are exquisite pastries and chocolates, and real bread.
- Le Crouton is another new French bakery, now open at 227 Kamerunga Road, Freshwater (ph. 4058 2451), and with Genovese coffee and a wide range of breads.
Industrial Design
- The OTTO is a unique Australian coffee machine from Craig Hiron. Creating OTTO means "Ritual is back"!
- The Swiss company JURA Elektroapparate AG has been developing innovative electrical and electronic equipment since 1931 (coffee machines brought to my attention by Genevieve).
- Cold press technology? See the Cold Drip Coffee Maker (brought to my attention by Carrie L).
- The Illy Company produces the FrancisFrancis! range designed by Italian architect Luca Trazzi (brought to my attention by Linden W).
- ThinkGeek supply the Handpresso Portable Espresso Maker.
- Perculators are sometimes difficult to find. This google search may help.
- And when design has problems: One source of spare parts is COFFEEPARTS.COM, Pagewood NSW 2035 (tel. 02 9666 6114) - I have purchased Baby Gaggia parts and found the service prompt and efficient.
Training
- There is an Australian National Training registered course for espresso preparation, ANTA training code THHBFB12B, for which Pearson publish the text Barista: A guide to Espresso Coffee.
- NSW TAFE THHBFB12B & SITHFAB012A, and VIC TAFE Coffee Academy.
- Barista Basics offers courses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane (SITHFAB012A, enjoyed by Evan G 2010 and Phillip M 2011).
- The Australian Barista School offers courses in Sydney and Brisbane.
- The Sydney Coffee School offers SITHFAB012A.
- Coffee courses from Lavazza Coffee.
- Sydney based Vittoria Coffee offers various training programs including SITHFAB012A.
Notes
- Fairfax publish The Age with the espresso food blog.
- If in Melbourne: (from G. Coath) St. Ali, Q Eleven.
- The Vittoria Coffee home page is http://www.vittoriacoffee.com. See also their coffee art.
- Need infrastructure and ingredients via an on-line service? Perhaps check out The Coffee Works and My Coffee Shop.
- The Cafe Guide people are collating a set of ratings on coffee and chocolate (and paid advertising :-) which seems to check out OK so far as Melbourne Australia goes. They are based in Vancouver.
- RFC 2324 ( Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, HTCPCP/1.0, Copyright (C) The Internet Society 1998). Unlimited copying permitted.
- coffee @ placid.