Coffee Supreme has been part of New Zealand's coffee vocabulary since 1993, and the roastery at 35 Hopper Street in Mount Cook is the brand's Wellington home. Part working roastery, part shop, it's where the blends behind one of the country's best-known coffee names are roasted, packed and sent out to doorsteps and cafe counters.
The range is built around the idea that they 'eat coffee for breakfast': espresso blends like the flagship Supreme Blend, Boxer, Brazil, No.7, Organic and the half-caf AM:PM, plus rotating single origins from Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Brazil and Colombia — including proper decafs. Filter roasts, drip bags and the Big Joe filter blend round out the shelf.
Beyond beans you'll find serious brewing kit — Moccamaster, AeroPress, Hario, Chemex, Fellow and La Marzocco home espresso machines — along with coffee subscriptions, gift options and a famously playful line of merchandise. Coffee Supreme also operates in Australia and Japan and supplies other cafes through its wholesale programme.
Coffee Supreme has been part of New Zealand's coffee vocabulary since 1993 — long enough that the brand prints 'Pouring since '93' on its tees without anyone blinking. The roastery at 35 Hopper Street in Mount Cook is the company's Wellington home: a working roastery and shop where the coffees behind one of the country's most familiar coffee brands are roasted, packed and sent out to doorsteps and cafe counters. Beans are joined on the shelves by brewing equipment, pantry goods and a long line of merchandise, and everything can be ordered online for delivery across New Zealand and beyond.
The company's whole philosophy fits into five words: we eat coffee for breakfast. Everything on the shelf follows from it — blends and single origins designed for every kind of coffee routine, whether that's the same dependable espresso every morning, a slow filter brew on the weekend, or a drip bag slipped into a day pack.
The espresso shelf starts with the Supreme Blend, the flagship — milk chocolate, orange and caramel, sweet and moreish. Beside it sit the Boxer Blend (dark cocoa, malt biscuits and maple), the Brazil Blend (chocolate, butterscotch and praline), the No.7 Blend (malt, cocoa and toffee), an Organic Blend with plum, vanilla and dark chocolate, and the AM:PM Blend — half Supreme Blend, half Brazil decaf — for anyone who fancies a proper cup after dinner.
Alongside the blends runs a rotating cast of single origins: Ethiopia Guji with milk chocolate and berries, Uganda Bunyangabu with black tea, rhubarb and nectarine, and Rwanda Nyamyumba in both washed and natural form. Decaf drinkers are properly catered for too, with Mexico Rio Blanco EA Decaf for espresso and Colombia Cauca Decaf for the filter bench. For filter fans there is Big Joe, the house filter blend — stone fruit, citrus and milk chocolate.
The shop doubles as a home-brewing outfitter. Filter machines and grinders sit alongside manual brewing gear from Hario, Chemex, Fellow, Alessi and AeroPress, plus the Moccamaster KBG Select. For benchtop espresso, Coffee Supreme sells La Marzocco's Linea Mini and Micra home machines — and includes a free six-month Coffee Supreme subscription with each. Airscape canisters, filter papers, KeepCups and a strong mug wall round out the kit, while travellers can pocket drip bags of the Supreme, Boxer and Ethiopia coffees, including a limited PAC-MAN 45th anniversary box set.
Subscriptions are a serious part of the business. The first order ships straight away, then deliveries land on your chosen schedule; accounts are only charged before an order ships, and you can increase the quantity, skip a delivery or change your address at any time. Customer care answers at [email protected] or 0800 937 627. New Zealand orders over $25 ship free in one to three working days, and international orders travel by DHL.
For gift-giving there are prepaid gift subscriptions for the hard-to-buy-for — recipients pick their own coffee, so there's no guesswork — plus espresso and filter gift bags and e-gift cards. Signing up to the newsletter also takes 15% off a first order, a tidy way to start.
The merchandise is genuinely playful rather than an afterthought: stacker and camp mugs, a cold cup, 'Extra Hot' and 'Extra Smooth' caps, and collaborations with Japanese makers Maruhiro Hasami and Okawa Glass. There's a Kinto mug described as a tribute to FAF, a stacker mug handcrafted in Ōtautahi by Richard Beauchamp, a Barista Pencil ('measure twice, cup once'), Pilot Pens for official and non-official use only, and Open Sesame, a book marking the company's 30th birthday. In the pantry: Koko Deluxe premium drinking chocolate.
Coffee Supreme also operates across the Tasman and in Japan, and supplies other people's cafes through its wholesale programme. But the Hopper Street roastery remains the clearest expression of the brand — good coffee, handled carefully, without taking itself too seriously.