Wynyard Quarter & Viaduct
Auckland
Specialty coffee cafés in Auckland
Roastery cafés and espresso bars, most of them in the CBD, Eden Terrace and Newmarket.
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Several Auckland roasters run cafés at or near their roasteries. Kōkako calls itself Auckland's first organic coffee roaster: it launched in 2001 in Aotea Square, and in 2017 moved its roasting to a larger space in Mt Eden.1 Its roastery café, The Roastery, is at 9 Charles Street.
The CBD has the most specialty espresso bars, ahead of Eden Terrace, Newmarket and the Wynyard Quarter. Expect daytime hours: Maeve Coffee Roasters at 22 Anzac Avenue opens at 07:00 on weekdays and closes at 16:00 every day.
Local tip: Roastery cafés keep office hours: plan a specialty crawl for the morning, since Ozone in Grey Lynn and Espresso Workshop at Britomart both close at 15:30, weekends included.
Where these cafés are: City Centre (3), Wynyard Quarter & Viaduct (2), Eden Terrace & Newton (2), Newmarket & Grafton (2), Devonport (1), Ponsonby & Freemans Bay (1), Parnell (1), Grey Lynn & Westmere (1).
At a glance
13Cafés listed
3With opening hours
07:00Earliest opening
16:00Latest closing
- Opens earliest: Atomic, from 07:00 (Mon–Fri 07:00–15:00).
- Closes latest: Maeve Coffee Roasters, until 16:00 (Mon–Fri 07:00–16:00 · Sat–Sun 08:00–16:00).
- Most common features: outdoor seating (15%).
City Centre
Espresso Workshop
City Centre
Maeve Coffee Roasters
Eden Terrace & Newton
Altezano Coffee Roasting Company
City Centre
Bespecialty
Devonport
Chiasso Coffee Roasters
Newmarket & Grafton
Dear Deer Coffee Roasting Bar
Ponsonby & Freemans Bay
Eighthirty Coffee Roasters
Parnell
Espresso Workshop
Grey Lynn & Westmere
Ozone Coffee Roasters
Newmarket & Grafton
Planet Espresso
Eden Terrace & Newton
The Roastery
Wynyard Quarter & Viaduct
Haodee Coffee Roasters
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Roasters with Auckland roots
Chiasso is a family-run roastery in Devonport that has been roasting in New Zealand since 1997; its café is at 20 Wynyard Street.2 Altezano Brothers was started by brothers raised in Latin America, and roasts daily in Mt Eden. The name joins two Spanish words, altitud (altitude) and artesano (artisan).3 Altezano Coffee Roasting Company is at 6 Edwin Street, and Altezano Brothers has an espresso bar on Commerce Street in the CBD.
Kōkako's supply chain has been certified organic by BioGro NZ and Fairtrade since 2009, and its first permanent café, opened in 2005, was on the corner of Parnell Road and Ayr Street.1
From dark blends to single origins
Espresso Workshop opened in Parnell in September 2007 with single-origin coffee at a time when most local roasters sold blends, according to its founder, Andrew Smart.4 Its Britomart bar at 11 Britomart Place opens at 07:00 on weekdays and 07:30 at weekends, and there is a second bar at 19 Falcon Street in Parnell.
Eighthirty founder Glenn Bell moved from Wellington in 2010 and set up a café and roasting space on Karangahape Road; by 2018 it also had sites on High Street and in the 1920s Tasman Building on Anzac Avenue.5 Eighthirty's head of coffee recalled an early market that wanted full-bodied, dark-chocolate long blacks (espresso over hot water) and flat whites, before customers grew curious about single origins.5 Eighthirty Coffee Roasters is at 4 Brown Street in Ponsonby.
What a flat white costs in Auckland
In August 2024 a medium flat white at French83 on Federal Street cost NZ$6, while a Wellington roaster argued that most cafés, charging about NZ$5, should be at NZ$7 to keep up with costs.6 Beans were part of the squeeze: an importer reported coffee prices up 53.9% in a year.6
Across New Zealand, Stats NZ put the average takeaway coffee at NZ$5.16 in January 2026, up 6.6% in a year and NZ$1.12 more than five years earlier.7
Where the roastery cafés are
In the CBD, Bespecialty is at 57 Fort Street. Newmarket has Dear Deer Coffee Roasting Bar at 58 Davis Crescent, and Grafton has Planet Espresso, up on level 5 of 2 Park Road. Eden Terrace has two roasters' own cafés: Altezano Coffee Roasting Company on Edwin Street and Kōkako's The Roastery on Charles Street.
West of the centre, Ozone runs its Auckland eatery at 18 Westmoreland Street West in Grey Lynn, open 07:00–15:30 on weekdays and 08:00–15:30 at weekends.8 Haodee Coffee Roasters is at 155 Beaumont Street in Wynyard Quarter.
Sources
- 20 Years of Kōkako, Kōkako Organic Coffee Roasters, accessed October 2026
- Chiasso Coffee Roasters, Chiasso Coffee Roasters, accessed October 2026
- Our Story, Altezano Brothers, accessed October 2026
- Reseller Interview: Espresso Workshop, Acaia, accessed October 2026
- Eighthirty Coffee Roasters: Moving Auckland Beyond Traditional Tastes, Sprudge, accessed October 2026
- Should coffee cost $7?, RNZ, accessed October 2026
- Steak, takeaway coffee, chocolate help drive annual food price increase, 1News, accessed October 2026
- Ozone Coffee Roasters Auckland, Ozone Coffee, accessed October 2026
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FAQ
Specialty coffee in Auckland: questions
Which Auckland coffee roasters have their own cafés?
Kōkako's roastery café, The Roastery, is at 9 Charles Street. Chiasso, roasting since 1997, has its café at 20 Wynyard Street in Devonport. Ozone's Auckland eatery is at 18 Westmoreland Street West in Grey Lynn. Espresso Workshop has bars on Britomart Place and Falcon Street, and Eighthirty Coffee Roasters is at 4 Brown Street in Ponsonby.
How much is a flat white at an Auckland specialty café?
In August 2024 a medium flat white at French83 on Federal Street cost NZ$6, and most cafés charged about NZ$5, while an importer reported coffee prices up 53.9% in a year. Stats NZ put New Zealand's average takeaway coffee at NZ$5.16 in January 2026, up 6.6% in a year.
Which was the first organic coffee roaster in Auckland?
Kōkako describes itself as Auckland's first organic coffee roaster. It started in 2001 at Aotea Square, opened its first café on Parnell Road in 2005, has held BioGro NZ and Fairtrade certification since 2009, and moved its roasting to Mt Eden in 2017. The Roastery café is at 9 Charles Street.
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