Apparently, the espresso coffee was introduced and established in Australia thanks to the Greeks! In 1954, they brought Australia the first coffeemakers for espresso, and opened up Melbourne’s historical coffee establishment, the famous Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar, a coffee shop unchanged in decades.
Pellegrini’s shipped its first espresso machine to Melbourne from the old country, and served coffee to tea-drinking Melbourners. Now, coffee drinking is as much a part of Melbourne life as breathing is. This coffee shop is where Melbourne’s coffee culture brewed, one ground bean at a time.
Researchers of the University Macquarie in Australia, historian Leonard Tzanizefski, and photographer Effie Alexakis, have documented the history of Greek coffee in Australia. They discovered that Greeks rubbed off their espresso drinking habits to Australians. In 1940, the Greek, Sam Akon Economopoulos, was the first to bring espresso coffee to Australia. He opened up two espresso shops in the center of Sydney.
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