Peoples Coffee Roastery

you're on mansfield street in newtown, which sits a few kilometres south of wellington's cbd and has always had that slightly scruffy, lived-in energy that central suburbs tend to lose first. peoples coffee roastery is at 275, and the roastery part isn't decorative. they're roasting here, which means what ends up in your cup started close by. newtown's regulars have clearly found their way to it and kept coming back, which tends to be the more honest measure of a place than anything else. if you're heading down from te aro or cutting through from island bay, it's the kind of stop worth building time around rather than squeezing in. the coffee is the reason. go in the morning.