Given how many awards ONA Coffee has, no matter the barista you’re almost guaranteed a good brew. The Cupping Room is owned by Canberra’s largest speciality coffee roaster, ONA Coffee, the company that was founded by award-winning Sasa Sestic and is also home to other champion baristas including Matthew Lewin, 2019 Barista Champion of Australia. If you had to pick and choose a handful of cafes that were responsible for starting the coffee trend in Canberra then there’s no denying that The Cupping Room is one of them. These cafes have themselves become travel destinations for visitors in search of quality caffeine or a place to take refuge after all that exploring (or going through roundabouts). The burgeoning coffee scene has partially helped put Canberra on the map as a cool place to visit. Since then, he’s been training other baristas in the city, many of who have followed in his footsteps and have entered and won similar competitions like the master barista himself. However this has all changed and frankly, part of that shift in attitude towards the city can be attributed to the local coffee scene. It all started when one of the city’s very own baristas, Sasa Sestic, was crowned the winner of the World Barista Championship title in Seattle back in 2015. The only time people visited was during school excursions or when visitors were in town, but even then that was a drag. Nicknamed the bush capital, Canberra is home to a population of about 390,000 people and is also well-known for having lots of roundabouts (at last count it was about 406). For a long time it was never really considered a destination-mainly because there wasn’t much going on. The city is also home to about 80 embassies and high commissions. The order is suitable for a breakfast that is not too big or heavy, but still tastes great.Ĭold drinks are also available, including refreshing home made lemonade and raspberry coulis, ice teas and frappes – a popular treat for the summer season.It’s easy to arrive in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, and get caught up admiring all of the grand government buildings that neatly line the streets of the well-planned city-from Parliament House on top of the hill, to the Australian War Memorial and the National Gallery of Australia. Offering nice simple food, the Head Chef prepares the Barista Breakfast with poached eggs on sourdough bread and roasted tomatoes, grilled asparagus and a home-made chilli jam.
Ona Coffee Manuka is also working hard on providing good food to complement their coffee. “It’s all about educating people and sharing our passion for coffee.” “We want customers to come and enjoy really good coffee and enjoy it in a relaxed, fun and unpretentious environment,” Jack says. Other brewing methods on offer include a cold drip tower, siphon and aeropress. Ona has recently sourced Panela sugar a dried-organic sugarcane to match their coffee. Single origin beans are available and continually changing. The beans are roasted in Fyshwick, Canberra at the Ona Coffee House. Jack describes it as “black forest cake with some forest fruit berries, dark chocolate and a creamy texture”. The Ona signature blend remains the same from the day the business opened. Owned by Aton Willie and Sasa, and run by Operations Manager, Caleb Evans, the new café has adopted a different look to its siblings – and features an espresso bar in a modern, industrial environment with a big exposed brick wall and timber benches. “Coming back here was important because the Manuka community was the first to support us in the beginning.” “This is what refuelled the roasting passion,” Jack says. With three other Ona cafés already established, the newly refurbished café in Manuka has opened its doors to the public once again.īarista and Marketing Manager, Jack Scheeren, says the new café is a testament to where the company is at. The roasting and wholesale business has come a long way since Sasa’s days of roasting coffee out of a storage container. The site is the original café where Ona founder, Sasa Sestic, first found his passion for coffee six years ago.
Ona Coffee Manuka has gone back to their roots and reopened a café in Manuka, Canberra.
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