Find good coffee in South Africa

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Enjoy coffee in South Africa - Johannesburg - Cape Town - Durban - Bloemfontein - Port Elizabeth - East London - Pretoria - Gauteng - Western Cape - Eastern Cape - Limpopo - Free State - North West - Northern Cape - KwaZulu-Natal - Mpumalanga

A selection of shops, restaurants and accommodation establishments who are committed to offering guests coffee of a high quality

First and foremost, like you, we are all coffee lovers

The whole idea to run a site for coffee lovers started during a trip to Clarens in the Free State, over the top of Lesotho and via the awesome Bonamanzi Game reserve to St Lucia and Underberg in KZN. In addition to this being an awesome holiday, we had dragged our own kitchen bean-to-cup coffee machine with us!

  Taking a coffee machine on holiday, really?

Yes, it was a little ridiculous but the sad part is that if we hadn’t taken this along we would really have had to do without our beloved morning brew, not to mention a few others which we enjoyed along the way.

Coffee shops have it covered but the rest?

We certainly did enjoy some of the coffee shops, farm stalls and restaurants along the way. The coffee shops served some very good coffee, these shops clearly take the subject seriously. One or two of the restaurants perhaps, but sadly, one restaurant actually offered us an instant mixture (I simply will not call this coffee) which wasn’t even pure! Now all instant is really not too bad, I too enjoy the convenience from time to time but if this has to be the case please let it be 100% pure and not the ones that contain dextrose; maltose; acrylamide or oxalates.

But hey, we’re not experts - 100% pure coffee does sound a little better doesn’t it?

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The purpose of this site is to supply a conduit, a channel or tool, for coffee lovers to find out about, or to recommend, a coffee shop, restaurant, accommodation establishment or function venue. It’s also a place where those businesses can boast about their own coffee and tell us how much they care.

Can we guaranteed the coffee will be good?

No, we certainly can’t visit each and every establishments but, by them joining us, they are required to complete a detailed questionnaire and our in-house experts will then decide if we should welcome them as members or not.

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Why such bad coffee? I’m generalising obviously, most of the better establishments have, at the worst, those pots of filter coffee, and at best, a bean-to-cup machine. Well done I say, and thank you!

We all accept that if we stay at a budget establishment such as a one or two star (TGCSA) graded hotel, that we cannot expect them to invest in the coffee and still maintain budget or discount pricing levels. But guys, good coffee is here to stay, it’s not going away.

In the United States, instant enjoys some 7% of the coffee market and there is every indication that, over-time, we will go this way.

Good coffee is too expensive. Rubbish!

At the time of writing this (2016) 1 kg of ground filter coffee costs approximately R 180 or 18 c per gram. Considering that you only use (unless you are silly enough to still be using those expensive pods) 10 g per 180 ml of filter coffee, the cost per cup is only R1.80. If your guest is paying over R 500 per night for his room; you spent thousands on linen; crockery and décor, is R1.80 for coffee still expensive?

Your brewing system will cost you from R 50 for an individual plunger; R 400 for a supermarket drip-filter machine; R 2900 for a commercial one (yes, the coffee tastes better and they last longer) and a bean to cup automatic machine will cost anything from R 10 000 to R 80 000, for a commercial machine which will last for years and years.

It’s really your call, but I know many people who will visit you once, but will never return unless you can assure them of good coffee.

It’s time that bed and breakfasts, guest houses, hotels, restaurants and conference venues all took a look at the quality of coffee on offer.

Some coffee brewing options

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