Aoraki Coffee Roaster is a cafe and coffee roastery at The Hub, 20 Hampton Downs Road, Te Kauwhata, in the Waikato. The website promises more than just coffee: alongside barista-made coffee, it services and repairs a huge range of home and commercial espresso machines and welcomes enquiries about trading in used machines. Cafes that roast their own beans usually pour a fresher cup, since roasted coffee is at its best within a few weeks of the roast date. If you buy beans to brew at home, ask for the roast date rather than trusting a best-before stamp. And because repairers who take on domestic espresso machines are thin on the ground outside the main centres, a cafe that also services and repairs both home and commercial machines is a useful neighbour in a smaller town. For Te Kauwhata, that makes The Hub a handy one-stop for a flat white and a temperamental machine alike.