he latter was . started by Christos Panas, who earlier in his q.rreer worked at Cullen Bay eatery The Boatshed . as head b<U"ista.

Mr Parias has competed iIJ. severiil latte art championships interstat~, last year corning runner-up ii) Sydney.

He set up C:afe ])el' Art with a business partner ill ·March 2014 but has been in the coffee ·game 10 years. - ·

"It's gre.at tha:t thei:e is a re­ally good coffee Cl).lture up here now," he says.

"People lulow what a good coffee should be."

Mr Panas echoed a familiar point of view to his fellow cafe owners when_it comes to run­ning a successful business:

"Y 01,J. need fast and friendly service and consistency in your coffee, the coffee s:Qould be the same high standard every tiin. " e.

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the Tropic of Capricorn has been that it was a capital that prefers a beerto a coffee.

But thaf seems to be chaQg­ing as the culture grows.

Ms Nnsworth said the beer­gver-coffee stereotype ·didn't Fingtrue.

"I haven't experienced that attitµde at all, even five years ago:wben I opened," she says.

"That was just the thought because there was how1ie.re · and now ·there are more and more options, because there are more creative people and more opportunities."

Ms Mann says she could see . more peopJe enjoying cafe~ than bars.

"Going out for a coffee is much more enjoyable than . gomg out for a beer these days, it is a trend that people are leaning towards,

"With those people witP. young families it is easier to be out for brekkie or Ii.Inch with the kids than go at dinner time,

kids are going to bed and that sort of thing."

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- LEFT INSET: to-owne~ Dannielle Mann and Lisa Heames of Laneway, a ne· RIGHT- INSET: Pastry chef Brigid Beilby with freshly baked gourmet pies at the recently Aliey Cats Patisserie in the Darwin CBD ·

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This could lead to too many baristas ~polling the broth, but at the moment everyone seems to think the competition is Iie.althy.

"It's not threatening in a:ny way because we all have a dif­ferent rlicbe - some are focus­ing on the coffee, some are focusing on the fooa and we're focusing on the pastries - it is only bl.iilding a cultufe," Ms Beilby says .

Ms Heprnes says it was good to have· different places to go 'to.

"We're all attractihg differ­ent people and .we're .certainly happy· to have competition argund us ... it gives people op- · tions, and it's nice to have cafes for us to go to on our day off too." ·

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