Category Archives: Out & about

Lavazza long black coffee from Aquila — very good coffee!

I have always been sceptical whether Brisbane-ites know what a good coffee is. Too often people have raved about a coffee shop to me, but then I have been disappointed by bitter coffee with a foul after taste. I started to wonder if it was me who did not know good coffee.

I had seen people queueing for coffee from Aquila in the mornings and wondered whether these people actually knew a good coffee when they tasted it. So I purchased a coffee to find out …

Long black Lavazza coffee from Aquila in Eagle Street in Brisbane’s CBD

I started drinking this coffee and thought it was pretty good — I then realised I had not put my normal one sugar in it. Now that is a true sign of good coffee!

Sorry Merlo, I did not like your coffee

My wife recently brought home some Merlo coffee beans. We ground them and made some fantastic cups of coffee. I therefore had high expectations purchasing a long black coffee from BarMerlo in Queen Street in the Brisbane CBD. Unfortunately, I was disappointed , receiving a bitter coffee with an unpleasant after taste.

My Merlo long black coffee was bitter with an unpleasant after taste

Merlo long black coffee

BarMerlo in Queen Street in the Brisbane CBD

Long black coffee from Gourmet to Go in Eagle Street, Brisbane CBD

Di Bella long black coffee from Gourmet to Go — a pretty decent coffee actually

Di Bella long black coffee — a plain cup, but pretty decent coffee

Gourmet to Go in Eagle Street in the Brisbane CBD

Why is it that when I ask for a long black coffee, I am sometimes asked whether I want milk with it. That would make it a flat white coffee wouldn’t it?

Coffee from The Coffee Club

A long black coffee from The Coffee Club — slightly bitter coffee, smooth with limited mouth feel

Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane CBD

Public art gone wild @ Yeronga Train Station

I do not mind some tasteful public art to give character to otherwise dreary public spaces. I spotted this at Yeronga train station. Three pieces of public art within metres of each other. Sometimes less is more …

Public art at Yeronga train station

Grafetti art mural

Railway tracks cemented vertically

A squiggly line on a wall

Cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline — where are they?

Former Premier of Queensland, the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was reported to measure the state’s prosperity by looking out his window in the Parliamentary Annex and counting the cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline.

I have been working from a client’s office in the Brisbane CBD recently and it dawned on me — there is only one crane on the CBD’s skyline. What does that say about the current state of Queensland’s economy?

Only one crane on the Brisbane CBD skyline

Starbucks coffee — flavoured dishwater?

Long black coffee from Starbucks — other people may rave about Starbucks coffee, but to me it tastes like and has the consistency of flavoured dish water.

Starbucks on Queen Street in the Brisbane CBD

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