I'm planning to chip in - but I need to hang on to some cash for the overpriced flat whites that are coming.

The $2 coffees include single shot lattes, cappuccinos and flat whites.

Asked what he was missing out on he said: "Food, vodka, flat whites, which is coffee.

"Lattes and cappuccinos are the most popular, followed by long blacks and flat whites".

Unlike the bustling city centre, there are no upmarket bars or expensive cafes serving flat whites.

The flat whites are superb.

Today at Krazy lounge they stuffed up an order and I ended up getting two flat whites for the price of one.

HAVE you ever bought a coffee and felt sorry for the poor soul who is trying to make 3 million flat whites in 10 minutes flat?

What happens when the local boozer becomes an expensive gastropub and the corner shop turns into a coffee shop serving flat whites for £3.80 a cup?

The All Blacks represent a small, sparsely populated country, famous for beautiful mountains, flat whites, women's suffrage and bungee jumping.

As lunchtime rolls on, a stream of students surges towards the doors and orders latte, cappucino and flat whites.

The organising committee for this year's Hospitality Rage have consumed many cappuccinos and flat whites putting together this year's event.

He runs the wonderful St Ali in Clerkenwell, which does one of the best flat whites in the city, in very hip, industrial-chic surroundings.

(The flat whites here are peerless; New Zealand is to caffeine what Savile Row is to tailoring.)

Edinburgh Coffee Loverspopped by in June and said: "We've had flat whites and cappuccinos regularly and they've always been a joy.

In midweek, the folk of Wellington sipped their flat whites without bothering to turn their heads as the squad walked through the hotel lobby en route to training.

The surge can be attributed to the strength of the local economy - some lines are even trying to attract Aussies by setting up on-board barbies and serving flat whites.

The orange-red fire stood out at the edge of the municipal sprawl, the most vibrant hue among the flat whites and grays and blacks of the steel-and-concrete construction.

There are more flat whites, composting bins and box-sets of The Wire than you can shake a Boden-print stick at in The Victorian in the Wall.

As we walked around Oratia, a folk band played, cheese and chorizo were sampled, and flat whites were drunk – or "smashed back" as the Kiwis say.

For those of us accustomed to silky-smooth flat whites brewed with mathematical precision in one of London’s independent cafes, the taste of eighteenth-century coffee would be completely unpalatable.

Hudsons Coffee serves mostly espresso-based beverages such as cappuccinos, caffè lattes, long and short macchiatos, long blacks, flat whites, mochas, as well as espresso.

The editor-in-chief of Monocle magazine, Tyler Brule, talks to Sophie de Rosee about his fashion obsession, his love of spectacles and flat whites in Marylebone.

You could even forget setting up life in one place and do as a growing band of "digital nomads" do: choose your next urban destination based on free Wi-Fi and flat whites.

I was swanning around a coffee shop in the mall the other day with good friends Simon and Bradley, sipping long flat whites and commenting derogatorily on the undesirables that were filing past.