while slogging through high school and uni, I somehow found myself pulled into the fast, slightly chaotic hospitality scene in Melbourne’s south eastern suburbs.
Somewhere between the rushes, I got properly hooked on what was then the “new” wave everyone kept talking about: specialty coffee. I was lucky, too, I landed alongside café owners who actually cared, and in venues and roasteries that set the bar way higher than I realised at the time.
Looking back, it was about as good a launchpad as you could ask for, starting out in Melbourne, the city that happily wears the “café capital of the world” label, and mostly earns it.
