Today I wanted great coffee.
I used an iPhone application specifically designed for Melbourian coffee lovers called TOP 100 coffee review. I figured I should at least start with options that had been reviewed and tried by others.
I used the 'near by' filter to search for places within a 1km range of my home in Richmond.
The nearest place was only 400m away. Wow. How come I had not already heard of this place?
The Cafe is called First Pour AT 26 Bond Street. Abbotsford. Well probably because it is in a one way street right next to the Brewery with no other shops or cafes in the street.
The cafe is decorated with lots of coffee gadgets and signages from around the world.
The coffee was fantastic, today I was drinking Honduras COE #6.
Great atmosphere, very friendly, casual, many different people coming in, ordering take away and some staying to drink the coffee. They have set up 3 different areas in the cafe, meeting rooms out the back, a main cafe, and a couch area at the side with 2 brilliant red leather couches facing each other with a coffee table in the centre.
Free wireless Internet, cool music, well lit, a small selection of sweet food options, they don't do savory as yet. So this would be a place ideal for a coffee to do some work, reading, blogging, meetings, but not for a meal over lunch or breaky.
I realize how much my work at HP had taken over my life. I really have not ventured even 500m from home to see the world around me....and discover it.
I am really looking forward to the discovery and those experiences I plan to have.. The small things in life really do matter.
Taking time to taste, see, smell, touch, and feel and think... You know I might love this sabbatical time of 90 days so much...I may not get back to work for a lot longer time.
First Pour i think might become a new place for my coffee...
By the next edition I will hopefully have worked out how to incorporate a photo into my email from my iPad!
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