Smart new system built for our changing at-home coffee rituals.
There’s a quiet shift happening in New Zealand kitchens as Kiwi coffee culture is moving decisively into the home.
We now expect café-quality espresso on busy mornings, a leisurely filter brew on the weekend, and a cold coffee option ready
Ninja’s new Luxe Café system is here to fill that gap. It’s a three-in-one machine capable of pulling espresso, cold brew and – unusually for its category – true filter coffee.
That last detail matters more than it sounds. Filter coffee has made a strong comeback, prized for its cleaner flavour and gentler extraction; yet few premium machines integrate it authentically alongside espresso and cold brew. The Ninja Luxe Café integrates it properly, giving households a single system that adapts to different tastes, different routines, and the ebb and flow of the week.
Design also plays a role in setting the Ninja Luxe Café apart. Many appliances either dominate the kitchen or end up pushed into a corner because they’re too bulky or visually noisy. The Ninja Luxe Café sits in a more refined lane, with clean architectural lines and finishes in Stainless Steel, Midnight Black, Gunmetal or Cyberspace.
Even the accessories – tamper, funnel, baskets and cleaning tools – tuck away inside the body of the machine, so the bench stays clear and the footprint stays elegant. The bean hopper also includes UV-light protection to help keep beans fresher for longer – a subtle detail, but one that reinforces the machine’s mix of style and practicality.
That sense of considered design carries into how it operates. Coffee machines, especially espresso machines, can be intimidating. Plenty of people invest in a high-end model only to find it too fussy, too technical, or too unforgiving to use daily.
The Ninja Luxe Café softens that barrier with ‘Barista Assist Technology’. Instead of having you memorise ratios and timing extractions, the system recommends grind sizes, adjusts temperature and pressure on your behalf, and doses by weight rather than time. In practice, this means fewer variables to manage and far more consistency, even for beginners.
Beyond the fundamentals, the machine also offers more than 15 drink presets, letting you move from long blacks to lattes to iced brews without manually adjusting settings. It’s an extra touch that makes daily use feel smoother – especially in households where everyone has a different go-to coffee.
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Advertise with NZME.The experience is equally considered on the milk front. The machine’s Dual Froth System uses steam and whisking together to create café-grade results, whether you want silky microfoam for flat whites, a thicker froth for fluffy drinks, or cold foam over iced coffee. A hands-free preset takes care of the heavy lifting, and the performance is impressively reliable across both dairy and plant-based milks – a detail that matters given how many households now use oat, almond or soy as their everyday default.
The design even accommodates tall glasses and 20cm drink bottles, making it easy to brew straight into a vessel for iced coffees, cold brews or on-the-go drinks without juggling multiple containers.
But what makes the Ninja Luxe Café stand out most boldly is its filter mode. With three styles (classic, rich and over ice) and seven possible batch sizes, it delivers the kind of flavour you’d expect from a dedicated drip brewer. For people who love the deeper, more expressive flavours of a weekend filter, or who want to brew a jug to share, the inclusion of this mode feels less like a gimmick and more like a genuine acknowledgment of how we actually drink coffee at home.
A few final touches round out the experience: an integrated 25-setting conical burr grinder for freshly ground beans; an assisted tamper that produces even, consistent pucks; and weight-based dosing that adapts automatically to each drink. Together, they create a system that feels more like a café setup – only simpler, calmer and far more intuitive.
For anyone who wants café-quality drinks without the fiddliness, the mess or a bench full of mismatched appliances, the Ninja Luxe Café hits a sweet spot.
It’s a thoughtful, design-led solution for espresso lovers who also love a filter, or for anyone who moves between hot, cold and iced depending on the day – or their mood.
Available now at ninjakitchen.co.nz from $1099.
