VIBE Coffee Roasters is a New Zealand coffee brand whose flagship roastery and daytime eatery sits at 1/15 Porana Road in Wairau Valley, Auckland. Part working roastery, part café, it's a spacious, eclectic and lively room with seating for 150 — a genuine hub for coffee enthusiasts, and one of the few places where you can watch (or at least taste) the beans being roasted and then take a bag of them home.
The café keeps to the classics: a menu of timeless favourites, plus a display cabinet brimming with a diverse selection of goods. Doors open early at 6.30am, and the space doubles as an events venue, hosting weddings, birthdays, launches and dinners for up to 150 guests. VIBE also runs a catering arm — business meetings, morning teas and office lunch shouts included.
Beyond the café, VIBE is known for its sustainable coffee capsules: Nespresso®-compatible, 100% home compostable and certified by DIN CERTCO for home and industrial composting. Beans, ground coffee, capsules and accessories are sold through the online store, with subscriptions dispatched freshly roasted every Tuesday. The roastery also packs other roasters' beans into custom-branded compostable capsules — runs from 5kg, dispatched within five working days.
Tucked down Porana Road in Auckland's Wairau Valley, VIBE Coffee Roasters is the flagship home of a coffee brand born in New Zealand. It's part working roastery, part daytime eatery, and entirely a destination for anyone serious about their cup. The team roast, pack and make their coffee with care — for the café floor, for the online shop, and for the growing range of compostable capsules that has become one of their signature moves.
The Wairau space is genuinely big: seating for 150 patrons, spread across what the team describe as a spacious, eclectic and lively ambience. It functions as a hub for coffee enthusiasts — somewhere to settle in for a proper coffee rather than grab and dash. Beyond the daily café trade, the same room doubles as an events venue, which tells you something about its scale and flexibility.
The menu keeps things dependable: all the timeless classics of café dining, done the way regulars expect. Alongside it, the display cabinet is brimming with a diverse selection of goods, so there's usually something worth pointing at before you order. The team's own piece of unsolicited advice, repeated on their site: make sure to snag some fresh beans while you're here. Given the roasting happens on site, it's sound counsel.
Hours are early and consistent — doors open at 6.30am seven days a week, with weekday service running through to 3pm and weekends to 4pm.
When they're not running what they call one of Auckland's most iconic cafés, the team are hosting events. The venue accommodates up to 150 people, and they've covered special occasions, weddings, birthdays, launches and dinners — any excuse for a party, in their words. Booking enquiries go through the website.
VIBE also runs a catering arm, built around what they describe as a passion for coffee, impeccable food, and friendly, efficient service. It's pitched squarely at workplaces: your next business meeting, morning tea, or even an office lunch shout.
The most distinctive thing about VIBE might be what comes out of the roastery rather than the kitchen: sustainable coffee capsules you can compost at home. The pods are Nespresso®-compatible, 100% home compostable, and certified by DIN CERTCO for both home and industrial composting. They carry a 14-month shelf life, a high oxygen barrier, and an aroma-tight brewing system. (VIBE notes it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nestlé.)
For home drinkers, capsules and beans are available through the online store, with subscriptions dispatched freshly roasted every Tuesday. The site advertises savings of up to 20% on coffee and capsule deliveries, with 10% off subscription orders, a free Vibe tin and free shipping over $30.
There's a business side too. Under the banner 'You roast it, we capsule it', VIBE offers custom capsule solutions for roasters, cafés and businesses with their own beans. Send fresh-roasted or green beans to the Auckland roastery — green beans are roasted to your desired profile on specialty-grade equipment — and they're precision-ground and packed into compostable capsules using a nitrogen flush to preserve peak aroma. Doses can be adjusted, typically between 5.0g and 6.0g.
Branding is available: custom labels, sleeves, boxed packaging and even capsule colour options at volume, loose-packed or retail-ready. Runs start from 5kg, pricing is tailored to volume and spec, and finished capsules are dispatched within five working days of receiving your beans. Fast, fresh, professional — as they put it.
You'll find VIBE at 1/15 Porana Road, Wairau Valley, Auckland, or on 0800 652 701. Come early for the pick of the cabinet, come on a weekend for the room at its liveliest, and leave space in your bag for a bag of beans. Whether you're there for a coffee at 6.31am, planning a wedding, or switching your home routine to compostable pods, the roastery has a lane for you.