The Sublime brew bar counter in the Bridge Street Studios laneway, with tiled front, timber posts and shelves of coffee bags

Coffee for wherever you call home

Custom built and roasted in plain sight at 123 Bridge Street, Nelson.

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Custom-built coffee, batch roasted in Nelson, ground the way you brew it.

Artwork shows the 200g pack Custom Deluxe coffee bag

Dan and Emma Hennah standing in the Bridge Street roastery in front of the roaster and sacks of green coffee

It started in a living room

Dan's idea was simple: coffee roasting belongs close to the community, not hidden in a factory. In a converted living room on Haven Road, with a roaster fixed to the inside wall, people walking past slowed down for the smell, wandered in, ordered a flat white and stayed to watch the roast.

Emma was teaching full time and working weekends as a barista to keep the lights on. Their kids took orders from behind a counter they could barely see over. Twenty-one years later it is still a family business, and the roaster is still where you can see it.

Same vibes. That is Sublime.

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Seven coffees on the shelf

Blends, single origins and a proper decaf. Tap a bag to see what is in it.

Your coffee, on repeat

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Batch roasted in Nelson

Dan built the first roaster and has kept modifying the one we use now. It sits in the middle of Nelson where anyone can watch it work.

Illustration of a roast, not a real batch.

Green coffee in
Sacks arrive from the growers and wait on the roastery floor.
Batch by batch
Roasted one batch at a time on a roaster we built ourselves.
Every step checked
From green bean to packed bag, so quality is never compromised.
Packed to compost
The bag, the valve and the inks are all compostable.

The same great coffee, every cup

Consistency is the whole point. It is why we built our own roaster, and why we train the cafes that pour it.

783 reviews across our four places, and every place is rated 4.7 or 4.8 on Google (September 2026).

How we keep it consistent

We built the roaster.Nothing off the shelf did what we needed, so we made our own kit and keep hot-rodding it.
Cafes trained by us.A dedicated trainer travels the country, so the cup tastes the same in a cafe as it does at home.
Family run since 2005.Dan and Emma began in a converted living room on Haven Road, and it is still a family business.

Nothing goes to waste

Compostable bags, cups that really do get composted, and sacks, husks and grinds that get a second life.

About 5,000 cups and lids a month kept out of landfill.

It took 18 months of trials to find a system that works. Our crew and customers make it happen.

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Most of our coffee goes to cafes

Most of what we roast goes to cafes. We supply them from Nelson to Auckland with coffee, equipment, training and servicing.

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Come and watch it roast

The roaster lives inside the Bridge Street cafe. Walk in, order a flat white and see where it comes from.

The roasterDan modified it until it was barely recognisable.

Green coffeeSacks arrive from the growers and wait here their turn.

Bridge Street Roastery and Brew Bar

123 Bridge Street, Nelson

Mon to Fri 8 to 3.30, Sat 8 to 2

Haven Road Espresso Bar

211 Haven Road, Nelson. Where it started.

Mon to Fri 7 to 4, Sat and Sun 9 to 3

Nelson Airport

1 Trent Drive, Nelson

Every day, from 5.15am (6.15am Sundays)

Cuba Street, Palmerston North

203 Cuba Street

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Open and closed use the hours published here.

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Records and pastries at Bridge Street

Sublime Vinyl Sessions

Fresh FM's Pete Bywater plays fresh vinyl with your coffee. Friday 25 September, and a Saturday in October.

Morning Coffee with K-Oui

The last Saturday of every month. Chemex coffee with eight handmade pastries, four savoury and four sweet.

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Dates as posted on Sublime's Instagram, September 2026.