COFFEE SERVED WITH AN EXTRA SHOT OF ELEGANCE
FORGET high tea, it’s all about high coffee.
Paradox Coffee Roasters at Surfers Paradise have launched a high coffee experience featuring an espresso martini and a “tasting board” of single origin blends sourced from places such as Honduras and Indonesia.
The coffees are served with a selection of finger sandwiches, quiches, scones and other desserts.
Manager Sofiia Kemp said it was a unique offering.
“The food complements the coffee, for example, we have hints of truffle throughout the arancini balls which is really earthy, like our coffee, so it all matches really nicely,” she said. “We give you a tasting selection of our single origins which are really popular … Honduras has a sweet pomegranate fragrance and Indonesia has notes of green melon and dark cocoa.
“We get a lot of travellers from Melbourne come in and it’s such a compliment because they know their coffee.”
Earlier in the year, the Intercontinental Sanctuary Cove Resort rolled out a “high coffee” experience at weekends but Ms Kemp said she hoped the trend would take off among customers seven days a week.
“I think it will bring a lot of people from all over the Coast,” she said.
“We want people to be coming in at 11am and ordering espresso martinis any day of the week, it’s an experience you can’t get anywhere else.”
Prices start at $35 pp.