Hugh Allen has experienced some of the best food destinations in the world and has visited many coffee centric locations, but when it comes to coffee quality, he says there’s no place like home.
“Melbourne has always produced the best coffees,” Hugh tells BeanScene.
“[I love] the abundance of quality cafés [Melbourne has]. The competition constantly pushes cafés to get better and better – knowing that you can walk into almost any café and know you will be satisfied.
Hugh lived in Copenhagen for just over three years. He enjoyed its thriving café scene and “super high quality” coffees, noting the Coffee Collective, Democratic Coffee, and April as favourite café destinations.
He says Melbourne-style cafés have popped up around the world, taking inspiration from the city’s industrial influence, food culture, even its style of ceramic cups, yet it is Australia’s multiculturalism that is unique to the country’s coffee culture.