Coffee News.

Kiddo Coffee has opened in Surry Hills, Sydney, bringing owner Pakasit "Zen" Wawongmoon's specialty-coffee programme back in a new, independently run form. Broadsheet reports that the compact cafe pairs carefully made coffee with Thai-inflected drinks and fresh custard buns, following the closure of the co-owned Bondi original two years ago.

Why it matters: Surry Hills is already a dense coffee neighbourhood, so a personal restart from an experienced operator is more useful than a routine new-cafe listing. The Thai references and focused food offer give visitors a concrete reason to add Kiddo to a walk between Sydney's established roasters and bakeries.

Dateless and The Single Cask are hosting A Study on Beans and Barrels in Singapore on Saturday 12 September. The ticketed afternoon tasting pairs four single-origin coffees with four rare single-cask Scotch whiskies, using a four-part format designed to compare how coffee and barrel character work together. It takes place at The Single Cask on Amoy Street from 2pm to 4pm.

Why it matters: Singapore’s specialty scene is at its most interesting when it moves beyond routine cafe service into deliberate tasting formats. This is a small, clearly structured event from a named specialty roaster, so it offers a useful option for readers who want a guided coffee experience rather than a general food-and-drink night.

Allpress will hold its 2026 V60 Championship Sydney heat at La Marzocco in Botany, Sydney on 24 September, with tickets released on 4 September. The elimination-style pour-over competition gives brewers nine minutes to prepare, grind, brew and serve, with the Sydney winner progressing to the ANZ final in Melbourne.

Why it matters: this is a genuinely useful date for Sydney’s filter-coffee crowd, not a routine cafe promotion. It also links local brewers to a wider programme spanning Australia, Singapore and London, with regional winners travelling to Tokyo for the World Coffee Championship experience.

THE BARN’s Holloway Road café in London will host Sage Latte Masters on Sunday 27 September, with 16 baristas competing in a latte-art throwdown alongside workshops and free entry for spectators. Sage, THE BARN and Oatly are presenting the afternoon, with competitors using THE BARN coffee and Sage’s Dual Boiler machines.

Why it matters: London has plenty of casual latte-art events, but a free, clearly structured competition at a specialist roaster is a useful diary date for working baristas and coffee-curious visitors who want a more participatory way into the city’s scene.

Slurps Up Melbourne will host its 2026 Best of Yemen auction tasting at Aunty Peg’s in Collingwood, Melbourne on Tuesday 8 September, pouring 33 coffees sourced and organised by Qima Coffee. The ticketed session is framed as a focused cupping rather than a general café event, giving drinkers a chance to compare a broad set of Yemeni lots in one sitting.

Why it matters: Aunty Peg’s remains one of Melbourne’s most useful places for serious coffee education, and a large-origin tasting is a more practical way to encounter Yemen’s varied modern quality landscape than a single limited release.

Good Measure will take over Single O’s Reservoir Street café in Surry Hills, Sydney on Sunday 13 September, bringing its Melbourne-born Mont Blanc and a short menu built around Single O’s Honduras Marcala. The one-day stop is the first date on Good Measure’s Australian tour, with limited bags of the collaboration coffee also planned for the counter.

Why it matters: this is a useful chance to try one of Melbourne’s most recognisable contemporary coffee drinks at a serious Sydney roaster, with the shared coffee giving the pop-up more substance than a standard guest shift.

April Coffee, the Copenhagen specialty roaster and brewer maker, has launched the April Hand Grinder 01 with Timemore. The new manual grinder uses custom April Gen1 conical burrs and follows the company’s expansion from brewing equipment into filters, vessels, cups and water minerals.

Why it matters: April is a meaningful Copenhagen reference point for precise filter coffee, so a first grinder is more than a generic equipment release. It gives home brewers and visiting coffee enthusiasts a clear new product tied to one of the city’s most influential specialty roasters.

Mada, the Melbourne coffee van known for Filipino ensaymadas and coffee, has turned into a permanent shop in Collingwood. Broadsheet included the opening in its August round-up of new cafes, bars and restaurants, describing a compact retail step for the previously mobile business.

Why it matters: A permanent address makes a small independent coffee operation easier to build into a Melbourne coffee walk. The move also adds a distinct bakery-and-coffee stop to Collingwood, rather than another generic all-day cafe, giving visitors a more specific reason to detour east of the CBD.

Singapore Coffee Week 2026 is scheduled for November 5-8 at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, with a pre-event cafe-hopping programme and a broad exhibitor list that includes specialty-coffee names such as 5F Coffee Lab, Bettr and Baristart Coffee. The official event page frames it as a citywide celebration of Singapore coffee culture.

Why it matters: The November dates give visitors and local coffee drinkers a useful planning window, while the cafe-hopping element offers a route into Singapore’s scene beyond the exhibition floor. The named exhibitors also make this a more concrete signal than a generic festival listing.