Editing Australian cuisine (section)

===Coffee===
{{Main|Coffee in Australia}}
[[File:Pellegrini's at night.jpg|thumb|[[Pellegrini's Espresso Bar]] in central Melbourne opened in 1954]]

Today's Australia has a distinct [[coffee culture]]. The coffee industry has grown from independent cafes since the early 20th century.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} The [[flat white]]  became popular in Australia some time after 1985, and its invention is claimed by a [[Sydney]]sider (although this claim is disputed by a New Zealand-based barista).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/australian-coffee-cafe-take-over |title=How Australian Coffee Took Over—And Why New Zealand Coffee Could Be Next |magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=1 January 2018  |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11895654/Who-invented-the-flat-white-Row-breaks-out-between-Australian-and-New-Zealand-cafe-owners.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11895654/Who-invented-the-flat-white-Row-breaks-out-between-Australian-and-New-Zealand-cafe-owners.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Who invented the flat white? Row breaks out between Australian and New Zealand cafe owners|last=Pearlman|first=Jonathan|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=28 September 2015|access-date=15 December 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The iconic Greek cafés of Sydney and Melbourne were the first to introduce locally roasted coffees in 1910.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} US military personnel stationed in Australia during the Second World War helped to spread the habit of coffee drinking, initially in the form of [[instant coffee]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Blainey|first= Geoffrey|author-link= Geoffrey Blainey|date= 2020|title= The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia|url= |location= Melbourne|publisher= Viking|page= 371|isbn= 9781761041945}}</ref>

In 1952, the first [[espresso]] machines began to appear in Australia and a plethora of fine Italian coffee houses were emerging in Melbourne and Sydney. [[Pellegrini's Espresso Bar]] and Legend Café often lay claim to being Melbourne's first 'real' espresso bars, opening their doors in 1954 and 1956 respectively. This decade also saw the establishment of one of Australia's most iconic coffee brands, [[Vittoria Coffee|Vittoria]], which remains the country's largest coffee maker and distributor. The brand has existed in Australia since 1958, well before it moved to the US.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vittoriacoffee.com/|title=Vittoria Coffee|website=Vittoriacoffee.com|access-date=23 January 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Flat white.jpg|thumb|left|The ubiquitous Australian coffee drink, the [[flat white]].]]

To this day, international coffee chains such as [[Starbucks]] have very little market share in Australia, with Australia's long established independent cafés existing along with homegrown franchises such as [[The Coffee Club]], [[Michel's Patisserie]], [[Dôme (coffeehouse)|Dôme]] in WA, and [[Zarraffas Coffee]] in Queensland. One reason for this is that unlike with the United States and Asia, Australia for many decades had already had an established culture of independent cafés before coffee chains tried to enter the market.<ref>{{cite web|author=James Braund |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/australia/travel-tips-and-articles/69143 |title=Caffeination: Australia's (obsessive) coffee culture – travel tips and articles |publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] |access-date=17 September 2011}}</ref>