Coffee Zone

If you're like a friend of mine, thinking "that wasn't there last week", you'd be right. It wasn't.

Coffee Zone is another example of the innovative, quirky establishment rising like a phoenix out of the liquifaction in Christchurch. From shipping container dairies or shopping malls and personalised portaloos, to pre-fabricated  dance clubs and school classes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until yesterday.

I was driving through Sydenham and there it was. Like a wooden shack out the back of a swamp, Coffee Zone, al fresco cappuccino, seemed to have been banged together overnight and plonked on the nearest available empty lot. Of course, there are plenty of them in down town Sydenham.

Opposite the National Bank, on the old Eco Frame and Mirror space, Coffee Zone is...is really cool. It's been there a little over a week and it's open Monday to Friday, 730am til 330pm. You can text an order (0221409861) or call (03 3775725). Bex brews a good coffee and it's service with a smile.

And Lego.

I'm not sure what the Lego means. It's interwoven in the structure, but I'm pretty sure it meets earthquake code. It was inspired, says Bex the Barista, by something similar overseas, but whatever, it's funky.

Bex the Barista

COFFEE ZONE

See you there.