Suzy's: A Coffee House History

Quill, 2010.

This is a story of coffee's triumph over authority the world over, and of Suzy van der Kwast's odyssey from the Netherlands to establish her famous and sophisticated coffee bar in Wellington. This lively social history romps through the coffee houses of the Arab world and of Turkey, Italy, England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria nad the USA. It tracks fown Wellington's earliest coffee bars, including The French Maid, the Espresso Coffee Bar, and Roy Parson's bookshop café. It unravels the story of Suzy's Coffee Lounge within the daring Wellington coffee bar scene of the 60s and 70s that also starred Mary Seddon's coffee bar Monde Marie, Carmen's International Coffee Lounge, the Casa Fontana, and the Mexicali...