La Cloche Kaiwharawhara | Wellington French Café & Catering — Restaurant in North Island

Coffee was bitter and sour. The tried to explain that they had dark roasted beans and that's the way rhey did their coffee.

But Bitter coffee comes down to two things: (1) bad beans and (2) bad brewing.

I'm sure it's not bad beans so...

4 Ways To Fix Bitter Coffee, Straight From Baristas Keep in mind that coffee beans are a natural agricultural product—not made in a factory somewhere. It's totally normal if one bag tastes a little different from the next.

Even if you make your coffee the exact same way, your new bag may not taste the same as the last bag of beans. No worries though—that's just how fresh food works!

To fix your bitter coffee, you'll need to make small adjustments to your technique to make it taste balanced again.

So remember: bitter coffee is over-extracted coffee, which means the goal is to extract less.

Here are four barista-approved ways you can extract less at home:

Grind your beans more coarsely (intermediate). The larger grounds won't extract so quickly, but they'll also make it easier for water to drain in pour over brewing (which will shorten the total brew time by a few seconds). Cut down the brewing time (easy). This can happen a few different ways. If you're using an immersion brewer like a french press, you can simply press down the filter 20 seconds earlier and see if that does the trick. For pour over brewing, you can pour in your water faster, or you can use a coarser grind for faster water draining. Let your water cool a bit (easy). At low elevations, water boils between 205 and 212, which is too hot for your delicate coffee grounds. Give it 1-2 minutes to cool a few degrees and see if your brew is balanced again. Use a little less water (harder). With less water to go around, each individual coffee ground doesn't have as much access to fresh water to extract into. If you're using a pour over cone, using less water will also mean you cut down the brewing time, because it won't take as long to...

Expanding the fantastic La Cloche brand into Kaiwharawhara, this café make for an excellent chance to chomp down on great French food.

The cabinets offer exquisite looking puddings and dessert, and moorish looking cheeses from Faume d’Ambert to Brie de Meaux. When figuring out the lunch menu and it’s broad offerings from Turkey Burger genius to gluten-free crêpes, be sure to figure out before hand whether you’ll be having a macaron, Paris Brest, or strawberry tarte to chase. The salads are filling, and the traditional French dishes will leave you in no doubt you made the right decision.

An on-site wine cave ensures every dish comes with a recommended wine of some extraordinary provenance to tickle your fancy. La Cloche is serving People’s Coffee, which makes all the difference. Unfortunately, the barista had the grind on too fine resulting in spectacular coffee beans coming out far too bitter. The hot drink service was the only thing that let La Cloche down!

The atmosphere and ambiance were both great with chic young women, older Khandallah locals, and even family dogs welcome.

Go here and plan on a big French lunch that will keep you...

Came into the cafe at 10:06am this morning with my 3kg dog (who was carried into the cafe) to have breakfast and do some work. A friendly staff member approached and petted my dog and said she would ask her manager if a dog is allowed inside the cafe and I mentioned that I had been to La Cloche many times with my dog (even at busy times). The manager was SO RUDE. She scrunched up her face and said absolutely not. Even though I had been to this exact La Cloche Cafe with my dog multiple times and have had no issues previously and the cafe was very quiet/ empty at the time. The manager (blonde dyed hair with flannel top) was so rude and wasn’t apologetic or empathetic at all. Luckily the other staff member was lovely and apologised. Do not recommend this cafe to anyone anymore. Please teach you manager how to manage customers with respect. Don’t waste your time and head to another cafe in Wellington - plenty of other cafes with great...