We've been into good coffee since it first hit Auckland back in the late 80s. It started off for us at Millars, a cafe in the city where the guy (uh yeap, Millar) roasted his own beans, made great coffee and baked biscuits and cakes which were brought out fresh from the oven out the back sporadically during the day. We migrated on to Kerouac founded by Chris Priestly in the early 90s and then followed him like drooling pups on to Atomic Cafe in Ponsonby Road.
It was a burgeoning scene and one that was to change the face of Auckland city - now packed full of incredible places to eat, drink and .... yes have that wonderful Kiwi creation - the flat white (no matter what the Aussies say, it all started in NZ).
Moving to HK in the later part of the 90s we had to give up on our daily coffee ritual and there was certainly no good coffee to be found there. Then moving to Dubai, again there's no good coffee here either and by then being away from the good stuff for over 15 years we though stuff this. Lets get a decent machine and do our own.
So we spent heaps on a Rocket. We bought it online and had it delivered from Europe (and subsequently bought another one for our place in France, we love it too much). It's an expensive habit this coffee stuff.
Andy went about perfecting the flat white and he did so very quickly I'm pleased to say. But recently we've changed things slightly but using full fat milk. I KNOW. Anyone who knows me would find the idea of me drinking full fat milk bemusing. However we started with the higher fat milk you get in France. The coffee tasted so rich, so mouthfullingly delicious and so creamy. Heaven. Our coffee now was seriously in a league of it's own. We started buying full fat milk here in Dubai too. Yes, same result. Absolutely and utterly, addictively delicious. We will never turn back. No skinny flat whites for us thank you very much. Give me the full fat delicious version please.
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| Andy's ultimate flat white |
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| Our Rocket R58 dual boiler - we have one in France too. |
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