/taxonomy/term/593/0 en /culture/the-daily-grind/a-continental-touch <h2>Coffee houses in Wellington from the 1940s</h2> <div class="mini-pic-right"> <a href="/?q=node/1691"></a> <p class="caption"> <a href="/?q=node/1691">A menu from the French Maid Coffee House </a> </p> </div> <p> From the mid to late 1940s an affinity for coffee, and the places that dispensed it, spread through Wellington and continued into the 1960s. From the mid 1970s until the late 1980s, though, the caf&#233; scene all but disappeared. </p> cafes drink food french leisure refugees wellington Wellington cafe culture Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 997 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz