cafes

Wellington cafe culture

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  Café culture has become integral to Wellington's identity. This culture began in the 1930s with the emergence of the milk bar, followed by coffee houses in the 1950s. After a period of decline in the 1960s and 70s, the city's café scene has grown in spectacular fashion over the last 20 years.

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• Page 2 – Overview

  Wellington city centre is renowned for its flourishing café scene and the culture it inhabits. But it was nearly 1950 before there was much sign of the sparkling capital

• Page 3 – Immigration and Society

  The rise of coffee houses in the 1940s, 50s and 60s was not a phenomenon confined to Wellington, or indeed to New Zealand. The connection between the history of cafe

• Page 4 – Design and technology

  New construction materials and equipment fashioned the cafe culture rising in the 1950s. Wellingtonians were introduced to the espresso machines as European styled cafes

• Page 5 – Music and cafe culture

  Entertainment generally and music in particular have always been a part of the Wellington cafe scene.

• Page 6 – Personalities

  New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s has been described as a drab and uniform place. From the late 1950s, however, a café culture was established throughout the country

• Page 7 – Further information

  Sources on Wellington cafe culture.

Food in the 20th century

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  The pavlova - that frothy, baked confection of egg whites and sugar - has long been seen as an icon of New Zealand cuisine; its place of origin has been debated with Australians for just as long in one of the many instances of trans-Tasman rivalry.

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• Page 2 - Dining outBefore the 1960s, New Zealanders had a limited choice both of venue and of food if they wanted to dine