World’s best coffee spots

Perched at the western end of the Silk Road, Sarajevo is the port through which the blessed bean first reached European lips. It’s served here essentially in Turkish style — dense, rich, black and bitter. The ritual for making, pouring and drinking coffee in Bosnia-Hercegovina is a complicated affair. A little copper-plated pot with a long neck (a dzezva) goes on and off the stove, creating a coffee foam and if you want sugar you don’t plonk a cube in your vessel, instead you place it under your tongue to dissolve as you sip. Wellington . . . or Sydney Like Phar Lap and pavlova, there’s debate about the provenance of the flat white. The Kiwi angle is that it was invented by Fraser McInnes at Cafe Bodega on Willis St in Wellington. Bodega has now shifted to Ghuznee St, but the entire capital city remains a fine place for a coffee pilgrim to visit. Alan Preston claims he was the first to serve a flat white in 1985 when he opened Moors Espresso Bar, on Sussex St, in Sydney. Having moved from Queensland, Preston says he adapted a term from his native Queensland, where in the 1960s and 1970s coffee with milk was referred to as “white coffee — flat”. Vienna . . . or Northern Italy Fancy coffee pretty much begins with the cappuccino (double espresso and steamed milk foam), which started to take shape in Vienna in the 1700s as spices and milk or cream were added to coffee. The bells and whistles were knocked off in northern Italy in the early 20th century, but it’s still common to get a sprinkle of cinnamon today. Air flying with his family aboard Winston Aldworth has been got to hand Rarotonga — and his kids New Zealand’s service to Check is coming soon… out the lollies! His Flight

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