Cafe
Why your caffeine fix is getting more expensive
The price of your flat white is going up. The Detail tries to find out why. Audio
Why your caffeine fix is getting more expensive
The price of your flat white is going up. The Detail tries to find out why.
AudioHow music can influence our purchasing habits
Professor Adrian North has spent his life studying the psychology of music and how people interact with it in different spaces. He's with us to discuss the psychological cues that music offers up and… Audio
Freedom and haircuts: survey shows priorities for level two
The eighth weekly survey on the impact Covid-19 is having on Kiwis' lives found people were simply looking forward to having more freedom as the country headed into alert level 2, and the top priority… Audio
Kiwi facing intense lockdown conditions in French Guiana
Things have intensified in French Guiana since we last spoke to Nicholas Holmes, with the lockdown extended four weeks and a curfew put in place from 9pm-5am. Those who break the curfew risk a €3750… Audio
New Zealander in French Guiana riding out Covid-19 storm
Nicholas Holmes travelled in French Guiana to pick his daughter up and take her back for a holiday in his home country, but he now finds himself locked down in a Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni apartment… Audio
Calling Home: Charles Olsen in Madrid
Having been enticed by a love of Spanish art and flamenco guitar, New Zealand artist and poet Charles Olsen arrived in Spain in 2003 with the intention of staying for a month. Seventeen years later… Audio
Café crimes
Bad service, get your own water, mediocre coffee...what are some of the cafe gripes you have? That's the basis of an article from the Sydney Morning Herald today, a list of annoying habits that cafes… Audio
Fresh is best
Mother and daughter duo, Judy Inglis and Emily Thomas run the Colenso cafe on the Coromandel Peninsula which is nestled in an orange grove. They share their passion for using only fresh ingredients… Audio
Spectrum for 3 July 2011
The Volcano Café was damaged beyond repair by a 6.3 Earthquake, in February this year. Owners Lois Ogilvie and Peter Llewellyn Evans remember their 23 years in business along with personality waiter… Audio
Suzy van der Kwast: cafe pioneer
Dutch migrant who opened Suzy's Coffee Lounge in Wellington in 1964. Audio