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For the last two years, Melbourne’s coffee community has been deprived of the in-person connections and gatherings that underpin what its culture is all about. COVID-19 has stretched the hospitality industry, but not broken it, and now it’s time to turn up the heat and bring the city back to life with not one day, but an entire week dedicated to, you guessed it, coffee.

From 24 September to 1 October, Melbourne Coffee Week returns, and it wants to see three years’ worth of events crammed into one.

“The De’Longhi Melbourne Coffee Week is a celebration of events and doing what the coffee industry does best – share coffee, connect, and party,” says Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) Show Director Lauren Winterbottom.

“The initiative was established years ago as a way

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