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Instant coffees, put to the taste test.

Moccona, Nescafe or Bushells? Good Food’s instant coffee taste test

Good Food’s blind taste test of 10 cheap and not-so-cheerful instant coffees, from supermarket to specialty.

  • Bianca Hrovat

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Onigiri Kitchen on Degraves Street in Melbourne offers light Japanese lunches, including rice balls.

Back to work? 10 new Melbourne CBD spots for fast noodles, hefty banh mi and ace coffee

Impress your office pals with bright bakeries to sweeten meetings, lunchtime bargains that you can afford to keep on rotation, and cafes hidden in plain sight.

  • Emma Breheny
Filter coffee using a V60 funnel.

How to drink affordable and excellent coffee at home, and avoid surging prices

Coffee prices are predicted to hit $7, but there are ways to get barista-quality brews without an espresso machine, like parachutes and new-wave instant.

  • Dani Valent
The rising cost of coffee.

Charge $7 for a coffee? Some stressed-out cafe owners would rather shut down

Stuck between soaring business costs and reduced consumer spending, cafe owners are in a “Mexican stand-off”, says Pablo & Rusty’s CEO.

  • Jessica Yun
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Order your espresso now for a bumpy year in coffee, oil and other commodities

Coffee will be more expensive in 2025, and anyone trading or observing energy and commodity markets into the new year will need caffeine to survive.

  • Javier Blas

I’m no longer a coffee snob – Starbucks is fine

A strange thing has been happening. I’m like the Benjamin Button of coffee snobbery, watching as my discerning tastes become increasingly basic.

  • Ben Groundwater
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Maggie Li, 27, drinks a flat white at Cafe del Volcan.

Despite all the tea in China, in Shanghai, the coffee is hot

On the streets of China’s financial and cosmopolitan hub, a caffeine-fuelled revolution is taking place.

  • Lisa Visentin
Sebastian Cincotta, owner, engineer, barista at FBR Cafe.

Australian coffee culture is world-class. Here’s how it’s about to get better

The techniques and technology transforming your morning brew from good to “mind-blowing”.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Moccona’s parent company sued over Vittoria’s 400g instant coffee glass jar – and Vittoria has won.

Australian coffee brand Vittoria humbles Moccona in glass jar fight

The $15 billion American-Dutch coffee giant JDE picked a fight with Sydney coffee company Vittoria – and lost.

  • Jessica Yun
In the cutthroat suburban cafe scene, the opening of a new option presents a tricky choice for loyal locals.

Hot cup of guilt: I love my local cafe, but the new one two doors down is better

The best thing is the new place doesn’t give you the bathroom key attached to a giant spatula.

  • Thomas Mitchell

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