The Barista Academy is a coffee and bartending training school at 113 Wellesley Street West in the Auckland CBD. Alongside its professional training programmes it runs private corporate sessions and hires out its facilities for group events.
The academy's core business is vocational: barista training, coffee making courses, roasting, café owner start-up training, and bar and cocktail courses. Published programmes include a two-day Barista Bootcamp at $495 and a two-week Pro Course at $895. Courses are also offered in Wellington and Christchurch.
Private corporate sessions run throughout the year, built around making and tasting coffee with coffee-based challenges. The academy's facilities and training staff are available for hire for private events, team building, welcoming new staff, product research and group events. A cocktail course is offered as an alternative format.
The Coffee Experience session covers identifying flavours in coffee and espresso making alongside a barista, which works as a shorter, tasting-led format rather than a full training course.
For meetings and events organisers, this sits in a useful category: a central-city, indoor, weather-independent activity with a practical skill attached. It suits team days, onboarding sessions for new staff, conference breakout activities and incentive programmes — and the CBD location means groups can walk from most central Auckland hotels and venues.
Group capacities, session lengths and private hire pricing should be confirmed directly with the academy.
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