Today we are seeing the re-emergence of fashionable tea rooms and tea houses across the world. The new found interest in meeting with friends for high tea events, has become a regular occurrence for many. I visited this subject in an 18ThirtyFour blog back in July 2014 – High Tea – It’s Just A Little Bit Posh! The bandwagon for high teas is truly loaded up, with just about every café, hotel and tea rooms offering high teas. What we are presented with can be from glorious and

It’s just before 8.00am on a beautiful Sunday morning, and I’m just pulling up outside a facility known as Carriageworks in the suburb of Redfern, Sydney, Australia. Today is Sunday 16th August 2015 and we’re about one hour away from the opening of the Sydney Tea Festival 2015. Last year’s inaugural event was a great success for festival promoters Corrine Smith and Renee Creer but how will 2015’s festival stack up? Expectations are running high with the buzz that social and r

Over the past two decades barista coffee courses have come a long way from their early beginnings. Back in the late 90’s, some early pioneers of the coffee industry were finding their feet, offering coffee training through barista courses and competitions. I remember being involved with Paul Jackson of Danes Coffee, Sydney in his first barista competition held at the International College in Manly. It was so new and exciting, and I remember chatting with Paul about his dreams