Why I Am Choosing a Soy Flatwhite to Determine Good Coffee

Good coffee can be hard to come by if you don't know the right places to go. My life as a coffee enthusiast began at 14 years old, and this long and loving relationship has provoked me to share the best coffee places in Adelaide with other people.

When I first moved to Adelaide from Brisbane, I struggled to find great coffee: I didn't know where to go for it. Since then, many great cafes have popped up and others who have been in Adelaide longer have entered my radar. So as someone who has experienced the frustration of being in a new place but having no idea where to go, I wanted to create a blog to help others. This in turn would also mean I would need to try out all of those places that have been on my "to-go" list for too long. 

I drink soy by choice. But many cafe's do terrible soy. It might make more sense to test a cafe by their espresso shot or cow's milk latte, but quite frankly I don't enjoy either of those things so I've decided to do it in my own way. The benefit of testing coffee quality with soy is underrated. Soy milk tends to be harder to froth to a perfect consistency, and the brand and quality of soy is much more important than with cow's milk - you can truly see if the cafe understands the coffee they are making. 

In my opinion, the only brand of soy milk that enhances the taste of the coffee (or at the very least, does not negatively affect it) is Bonsoy. I have tried many different brands and I still find myself coming back to this one. As soon as I find out a cafe is not using Bonsoy, I tend to re-evaluate whether or not I want to go there.

This blog is an honest girl's mission to find and share the great coffee haunts of Adelaide. 

Free San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge Vector Download: 162 days until happiness

This July I will be travelling to America. Arriving in San Francisco for Independence Day, we will then travel to Las Vegas and finish up in Los Angeles. As I've never been to America before I am looking for ideas of places to go - especially coffee wise. 

San Francisco would have to be the one I'm most excited for: I've heard great things about it and can't wait to see it for myself. I am so, so excited for it that I even managed to drag myself back onto the Adobe Creative Suite (the very name of which was making my skin crawl by the close of 2013) and onto Illustrator to create a free downloadable image as a tribute to my excitement.

Lo and behold, here is my rendition of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is my first vector drawing for 2013, and certainly provoked a sizeable amount of F words along the way. 

It's available to download in two different colour schemes from my Dropbox here. Keep visiting for more vector drawings throughout the year, and after I've been to America I will be listing the top cafe's to visit. 

Have you been to San Francisco before, or do you live there? Where would you recommend to visit, as a coffee enthusiast?