Cafe Adventures: Good One

 Large, naturally lit space, coffee brewers who know their stuff, beautifully designed branding, Little & Friday baking and damn good coffee. 

Based in a refurbished old manufacturing building hidden in the skinny backstreets of Ponsonby, Good One has been serving up Supreme Coffee (and filter) since 2008. With Ample seating, high open ceilings, chill tunes, simple yet delicious food menu and over 45000, Good One attracts a diverse crowd. Expect to see friends catching up, students finishing caffeine fuelled essays, work colleges reading the paper, and the token hipsters bringing their tongues drinking coffee before its cool.

A flat white for me, a mocha and chocolate caramel slice for Craig. 

Will definitely be back soon, if not for the coffee then to try and sneak out some 1990 National Geographics. 

Good One

42 Douglas St

Ponsonby

Auckland

09 376 2784

Monday – Friday 7am – 3pm

Saturday 8am – 3pm

Sunday 9am – 3pm

let it be autumn.

 “The earth has music for those who listen” – William Shakespeare

I love autumn. I love the colours, leaves painted red, orange, yellow, brown, shades of nature fluttering through the streets. I love the autumn cold, different from the harsh cold of winter, which makes your bones brittle and your skin white. It’s a cosy cold, a tights and skirt kind of cold.

I love autumn skies, clouds gathering in thick grey crowds that allow you to feel comfortable spending an entire day inside reading books and watching television. I’m not coerced out by the guilt of hot summer sun, or trapped by winter rains. Autumn is nonchalant, laid-back, leisurely.

I love the the foods; soups that billow hot steam, freshly baked bread and porridge oats spiced with cinnamon, honey ginger tea and roasted pumpkin. The tender wrapping of frozen fingers around hot bowls and mugs.

Autumn is early darkness and early light, gently frosted mornings that taste crisp in your lungs. It’s sun filtering through morning curtains, dark chocolate and movies in bed. Vibrant colours, leisure and hot earl grey, piles of leaves and grey skies, which are the beautiful kind of grey. Autumn is brown leather boots, red flushed cheeks, brightly coloured socks, and days where it’s cold and sunny at the same time. It’s duvets and coffee and well-worn books and comforts.