An offhand comment was all it took. We were hooked, and then, slowly one by one, the experts were conned invited to join in. The top SA Whisk(e)y tasters, the Wine selectors and even the Restaurant Critics. The odd industry demi-god and Philosopher/Columnist for good measure. Here are some of the panel: Neil Pendock JP Rossouw Marsh Middleton Bernard Gutman

It couldn’t last, could it? News from our Hq: As of tomorrow (Tuesday 13th November 2012) the price for a cup of coffee a the window goes up a wee bit. trainee made cups at the take-away only are now R15. From the Slayer in the centre of the bar, served in our eclectic collection of cups they will be @ R25….

Expresso show’s piece on our Steampunk HQ for TRUTH. coffee, a bit about how we roast coffee, our vintage Probat roaster, and the Slayer of course.   come see it for yourself 36 Buitenkant  Street, Cape Town

That was incredible, a book launch function at Truth. sponsored by the Hanns Seidel foundation, with Africa Melane and Helen Zille on the podium and Manouche as the backing track! just too cool. A South African Renewable Energy Guide for Local Government was Launched!

The fabulously talented Adrian Lazarus exposes Steampunk through his amazingly creative network and Mercury Productions in this video filmed at our new HQ! 1886 Steam Punk from Adrian Lazarus on Vimeo. Thanks to all!

The Coffee world has shifted over the years, at first subtly, and now tangibly. We, those in the know, have gravitated towards the good stuff. Some of us getting involved enough to even open up an artisan roastery or two. At our new Artisan roastery, our HQ, we are proud to host another form of artisanry. Besides our radical Little

The Little Hattery, our very talented  (un)uniform designers held their Steampunk themed launch party at us. Although, due to the fact that the Cape Town City Council, still haven’t issued our occupation certificate to us, and we are unable to properly open TRUTH. HQ to the public. We patiently await our launch. We are almost there as these photo’s by Virginie Harel show:  

The Little Hattery have blown us away. If you would like to dress in steampunk like this every day, drop us a mail, we are currently hiring Waiters and Host/esses The tip of the iceberg revealed:    

The talented Mariëtte Kotzé  has come up with a steampunk label for our resurrection blend. what do you think? She of course paints using the coffee itself. A liquid is made of the spent espresso pucks of the blend itself, and it is reduced until it is suitable as her “ink” The blend itself is a composition of individually roasted micro-lots of a Brazilian, a Guatemalan, a superb Indian from the Mysore, with

Our bike racks for the TRUTH HQ went in thanks to Stirling Kotze of Load and Go Cape Town     now to choose the bike to come to us on:

As many of you by now know, our new Roaster and HQ are based on Steampunk, What is steampunk you ask?   well what it isn’t: some of ours that is (aka future/past uniforms thanks to the Little Hattery:

Do you want a glimpse of our new HQ? come in this am (Saturday 7 July 8am- 1pm) for an exclusive preview.   Come see what is on the horizon and order a coffee and a snack.   36 Buitenkant Street  

Just a question or three please?   How much should a flat white cost in Cape Town? I am talking about a properly prepared cup of the good artisanal stuff prepared by an ace barista? A) how much do you want to pay (seriously)? B) what do you expect to pay? C) how far would you go for something special (a unique

Remember that man cave thing we did at decorex? The David Donde, Dieter Rauch Mancave thingumy. We raised over R10,000 for the Light From Africa Foundation.  So here is where it is going. from Catherine Bolton who runs the foundation: In follow up to your conversation with Bianca yesterday, we recently received the below email from one of our partner

Coming soon, right between your eyes:                                         Painted in 100% Truth Coffee Drink that while sitting in this?:                 At this:                 Isn’t Haldane Martin’s design incredible? a

Ok, so progress continues on the HQ. The wow is creeping in. Along with that wow, came in the talented and gorgeous artist Mariette Kotze, who, along with the talented Dieter Rauch who rendered espresso pucks into coffee ink, is producing some coffee art for your titillation. Dieter is the designer who heled me raise around R10k for the Light From

Interesting, our hole in the wall is serving the same amount of cups of coffee per day as the v&a Waterfront store. Update: we are now serving more than at the waterfront!

So we opened the window for a while this morning. We gave away a fair bit of coffee too. Word got out fast. The Bergies heard about it. They form a pretty good line at that time of morning all things considered. Then we ran out of milk. We got more fast. We had poured more than a hundred free

TRUTH. has a new HQ. Our new headquarters are on Buitenkant Street. We will be shipping coffee from there. Serving coffee too. And also roasting it in our nearly complete vintage 60kg Probat bag roaster. Serving coffee too.   We aren’t closing any other stores down, and Prestwich is business as usual. Directions: 36 Buitenkant Street. From the city: Come

There it is. at last that counter started at 100 days and now look at it: So it is time for an announcement. Or two. First off our new HQ is to be in Buitenkant Street. Secondly to celebrate that, and the end of 100 days we are going to give away the first 100 cups of coffee. Thats right, free