Cafés

Specialty coffee for a tenner: our Kołobrzeg experiment

For two weeks our café in Kołobrzeg sold specialty espresso, americano, cappuccino and filter coffee

Coffee in a cake shop, without hiring a barista

How a small cake shop in Gruczno serves consistent coffee with a bean-to-cup machine and

20 years of the Nuova Simonelli Appia espresso machine

Nuova Simonelli's Appia turns 20 this year. Over 625,000 machines sold worldwide, and it's still

Best espresso machine for a specialty café: our tests

We put four professional espresso machines through their paces in a working specialty café: La

Tinto Speciality: the Koszalin café built from a dream

Marta swapped a trip to the Bieszczady mountains for a café of her own. Inside

Mietowa cafe in Dzwirzyno: where to get coffee by the sea

Inside Mietowa, a family-run cafe and ice cream parlour on the Baltic coast near Kolobrzeg,

How to become a barista: a practical guide

Where to start with no experience, which skills count, what a barista course costs in

How to dial in a coffee grinder in a café

A badly dialled-in grinder is the most common reason espresso runs too fast, too slow

Słodki Domek: the café on the west beach in Kołobrzeg

A café in the park by the west beach in Kołobrzeg, serving artisan ice cream,

How to choose ceramics for your café

Cup capacity decides the ratio in the cup. Sizes for espresso, cappuccino, latte, XL drinks