Aussie cafes look to Japan

Australia's restaurant exports gain all the exposure, but our cafes are also slowly making a play for world domination.

Adriano Matteoni, who opened Piccolo Padre in Rozelle in 2001, has a hit on his hands at his new Paper Cup in Glasgow's fashionable West End. His foreign interests include a second cafe, not in another suburb of Glasgow, but Tokyo.

Matteoni says Onibus Coffee, in Okusawa, has hit the Japanese market just as coffee is taking off. The Japanese are among the most ferocious bidders for the best coffee beans on the planet, and while milk-based coffee culture isn't widespread, Matteoni says younger Japanese at the cafe are increasingly ordering lattes.