It's that time again: time for my annual round-up of my coffee, food and cocktail favourites of the year. I've used the same categories as last year — coffee, brunch, street food, restaurant and cocktail. And as usual, I've included new-to-me picks from both London and my travels around the world. This year, I visited seven different countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Peru, Poland and the United States) and enjoyed some fantastic meals and cups of coffee.

As I noted in my recent post about Austin's speciality coffee scene, I'd never been to Texas before this year and was pleased to have to opportunity to visit the state capital as part of a trip for work. 

Until this year, I'd visited 16 US states but they are all located on the East or West Coast. I was excited to find out that the conference I attend each February was being held in Austin, Texas, this year. Texas wasn't somewhere I'd really thought about visiting but I had heard great things about Austin — especially the food and live music. I was also pleased to discover a thriving specialty coffee scene, although plotting spots on my Google Map initially made me wonder if I might struggle without a car.