Dark Horse Coffee Espresso Garden is a cafe at 4a Sheffield Street, Paraparaumu 5032, on the Kapiti Coast, rated 4.8 on Google. The business is also an artisan coffee roastery, and its website says it has a Coffee & Flowers site in Paraparaumu Beach. The website describes small-batch roasting of Arabica beans, with single-origin coffees and blends, and names its Colt Blend as the one that started it all. It offers subscriptions that save 10 per cent on each order with no lock-in contracts, plus free delivery on larger orders. It also supplies office coffee, and offers training and ongoing support for new cafés. For coffee lovers in Paraparaumu, the espresso garden on Sheffield Street is a local place to try the blends before you subscribe.