Suspended coffee
Known as 'caffe sospeso in Italian, and what we call 'suspended coffee', originated in the hard times of post war ...
The perfect breakfast
As a health conscious consumer contributing to the current trend towards raw and organic wholefoods, I just love it when ...
Destination Manila
Café crawling in Manila will be just that – unless you’re with locals like our kind hosts from Savoroso, who ...
Destination Vancouver
Although small in number, the specialty cafes we visited in beautiful Vancouver were exceptional and all had something unique to ...
Destination Boston
With the second edition Barista Bible in our bags, we headed to Boston to the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s ...
Barista training standards
In the past, if someone mentioned barista training standards it might have become a contentious and confusing topic. Now various ...
Why train your baristas?
When asked by a café owner why barista training was necessary, I came up with a few words like competence, ...
Destination Ireland
In a two-week trip to Ireland in 2012, we took in magnificent coastal scenery, ancient castles, quaint villages with thatch-roofed ...
Destination London
The history of coffee in London goes back to the 17th century and researching it took a lot of our ...
Destination Amsterdam
With the help of Moniek Smit, a local coffee professional who’d worked on the Allegra Strategies Guide to Cafés in ...