Category: Reviews | Post by: Andrea Wong
There's a new kid in town, you can't miss it... it's wearing a big moustache.
Auckland's first milk and cookies bar opened in Wellesley Street at
7am this morning and already it's popular. Spreading the word via Facebook and Twitter, Moustache
seems to has hit a chord with us Aucklanders. With its nostalgic decor
of shiny tiles and old milk bottles, it's message is clear: we serve
great milk and cookies.
I popped along early this morning to meet Toodles Noodles and her
beau for a milk and cookie hit before work. While I waited outside, I
watched a steady stream of people filling the wee shop and exciting with
cookie and drink in-hand. Despite it being their first hour of
business, they had people quickly out the door and smiling.
Their coffee is Supreme, their chocolate is Whittaker's and their ice
cream is Kohu Road - all great products to work with, I reckon. The
owner told me that this has been a long held dream for her and has been
baking cookies for a very long time. And yes, my cookie was great. I had
the black forest cookie: slightly chewy, just the way that I like it.
Good on her for taking the plunge.
Bear in mind that this is just a wee joint and there's no where to
sit. Bring your KeepCup or IdealCup with you, so you don't need to use a
disposable paper cup. The menu is simple: cookies (made by hand, on site), dunking milk, coffee, hot
chocolate, milkshakes and tea. I will have to go back another time to try one of their milkshakes - the salted caramel sounds great.
There is one other thing I'd love to see on the menu. Toodles Noodles mentioned a famous cookie place in LA, that serves
ice cream sandwiches... what a brilliant idea! Moustache, I would love
to see you do an ice cream sandwich using Kohu Road's d'lish ice cream. Pretty please, with a cherry on top?
All the best to Moustache, I wish you many days of being up to your elbows in cookie dough!
Moustache
12 Wellesley Street West (just up from the Civic Theatre)
Auckland
Edit 19 September 2012: Due to popular demand and excessive cookie making, Moustache have temporarily reduced their opening hours so they can give their cookie-making hands a rest.
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Closed Sunday
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