Adelaide Set to Become Coffee Hub of Australia
Thanks to the fast-expanding café culture of the Southern Australian state, it is thought that Adelaide could well become the coffee capital of the country.
With in excess of 120 coffee outlets now functioning in the central business district alone, Adelaidians seem willing to part with a considerable amount of money for their caffeine fix, anywhere between $3 and $4.50 per cup, or even as much as $5 depending on the coffee house and the type of coffee served, according to the SA (Southern Australian) Coffee Academy.
Sally Neville, chief executive of Restaurant & Catering SA, suggests that Adelaide’s increasingly “casualised” habits surrounding eating out have a strong part to play in the state’s burgeoning coffee culture, with catching up over coffee a great, cost-effective way to meet with friends rather than opting for a full blown meal, as well as being a less formal way of doing business.
In terms of quantifying the scale of coffee shops’ penetration in the capital, “almost every second shop in town” offers coffee of some description, according to the State Retailers Association, with the significant rise in the number of office workers also boosting coffee requirements.
The increased availability of coffee as well as consumers’ greater exposure to the European culture through travel are also cited amongst the reasons for Adelaide’s growing coffee culture. An establishment called Madera Boutique Coffee is just one of many new coffee houses opening up in the state and its owner, Mitko Minchev, took the decision to enter the market with the desire to offer gourmet beans to coffee connoisseurs.