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Midnight Espresso, Wellington, 1997

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Midnight Espresso, Wellington, 1997

Wellington's Midnight Espresso was one of the café trailblazers whose 1989 opening announced the comeback of espresso coffee made from freshly ground beans. Barista Sheryl Flanders passes a freshly made coffee, probably a flat white or caffè latte, to a customer in 1997.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1997/4586

by Melanie Burford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Kerryn Pollock, Tea, coffee and soft drinks – Tea and coffee, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40381/midnight-espresso-wellington-1997 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 30 November 2012.