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Blackwood & Co

Blackwood & Co is an independent specialty coffee house located at 27 Salamanca Place, Hobart. Established in 2015, the café occupies a converted sandstone warehouse dating from the 1830s, blending heritage architecture with contemporary industrial design. Known for its single-origin beans roasted locally in New Town and its carefully curated aesthetic, Blackwood & Co has become a fixture of Hobart's waterfront coffee culture, attracting professionals, students, and tourists drawn to its harbour views and artisan approach.

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Cornerstone Café

Cornerstone Café occupies a converted ground-floor warehouse space at 3 Purdy's Mart, a narrow laneway connecting Collins Street to a rear car park in Hobart's CBD. Established in 2003, the café predates the city's specialty coffee transformation, maintaining an unpretentious character that distinguishes it from more contemporary establishments. Known among regular patrons for its discretion and generous table spacing, Cornerstone has long attracted those who prefer their conversations unoverheard and their coffee unpretentious.

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Crown and Anchor, Hobart Town

A modest two-storey public house established in 1811 on the corner of Argyle and Collins Streets, the Crown and Anchor occupied a quieter position away from Hobart Town's busier waterfront taverns. Under the proprietorship of Thomas Marsden, it became a favoured meeting place for merchants and tradesmen seeking conversation without the rough crowds of the wharfside establishments. For William Jeffries and Silas Croft, the Crown and Anchor's corner table witnessed the foundation of a friendship that would shape both their futures.

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Kingsford Smith Pub, Gawler

The Kingsford Smith Pub has anchored the farming community of Gawler, South Australia, since 1932, when World War I veteran Jack O'Connor named it for his friend and fellow aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Beneath its hand-painted mural of the historic 1928 trans-Pacific flight and the spreading branches of an ancient oak, generations of farmers, tradespeople, and travellers have gathered to share stories, settle disputes, and mark the quiet rituals of rural life. On 29 October 1987, within these weathered walls, a chance encounter brought together a restless young farmhand named Cody Jennings and the mysterious Guardian Jeremiah Atkins—a meeting that would prove the threshold to an extraordinary journey between worlds.

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Kronotrop, Istanbul

Kronotrop is a speciality coffee bar and roastery founded by Çağatay Gülabioğlu in Istanbul in 2012, widely regarded as Turkey's first dedicated micro-roastery and a foundational establishment in the country's third-wave coffee movement. Originally operating from a small premises in Galatasaray, the business expanded across multiple Istanbul locations, including branches on Serdar-ı Ekrem Caddesi in Beyoğlu and in the neighbouring Cihangir district.

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Leaf & Bean Café, Morningside

Tucked into a quiet stretch of Morningside Road, the Leaf & Bean Café has, over the past two decades, become one of Edinburgh’s most understated yet significant meeting spaces. More than just a coffee shop, it has evolved into a modern sanctuary—part retreat, part public square—where residents converge over shared routines, quiet confidences, and understated warmth. Beneath its calm, wood-panelled surface lies a history of careful stewardship, familial resilience, and subtle reinvention. Its story, though seemingly ordinary, carries the accumulated weight of habit, loss, trust, and quiet observation.

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Ruby Chalice, Ur

The Ruby Chalice was a tavern in Ur's Ekrubal Quarter operated by the widow Nin-Bára from 2483 to 2461 BCE. Located at the intersection of Sul-Malatu Street and the harbour quarter lane, it served beer, barley bread, and simple meals to skilled craftspeople and minor merchants whilst providing discreet meeting spaces in its back chamber. On 6 August 2470 BCE, Azariel Tiberius Voshtar and seventeen key followers gathered in this back chamber to plan their departure from Ur—the meeting that transformed individual interest into collective commitment and laid the practical foundations for Fordingrad's establishment.

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Wrest Point Casino, Tasmania

Wrest Point Casino, opened in 1973 as Australia's first legal gambling venue, transformed Tasmania's hospitality landscape through its bold modernist architecture and Monte Carlo-inspired elegance. Rising seventeen storeys above the Derwent River, the complex symbolised Hobart's evolution from colonial outpost to sophisticated destination. Within its gilded halls where fortunes shift like river tides, the casino became witness to both legitimate entertainment and darker narratives—hosting everything from high-stakes gambling to desperate heists, criminal operations, and inter-dimensional escapes that would forever mark its legacy.

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Hospitality & Convention Facilities

Blackwood & Co

Cornerstone Café

Crown and Anchor, Hobart Town

Kingsford Smith Pub, Gawler

Kronotrop, Istanbul

Leaf & Bean Café, Morningside

Ruby Chalice, Ur

Wrest Point Casino, Tasmania

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