On the second episode of our special collab with Visa Wellington on a Plate, Redmer Yska gives us the history of coffee in Wellington. He talks about Alexander Turnball’s Dragon Coffee roastery, the Cafe Au Lait coffee house for dock workers on Customhouse Quay, and how the coffee of that time was probably nothing like today’s flat white.

The Wellington Food Story Speaker Series is taking place at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa each Wednesday in October. Make sure you subscribe to the honeycombe podcast to catch all of the episodes.