Espresso Machines

Best espresso machine for a specialty café: our tests

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

Izensso Raptor review: the espresso machine that surprised us

A multiboiler espresso machine at a price that does not usually buy one. We ran

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,

La Marzocco: the history of an espresso legend

From a Florence metal workshop in 1927 to the machine that said no to Starbucks:

HX (heat exchanger) espresso machines: how they work, pros and cons

An HX espresso machine has one large boiler with a heat exchanger. The water for

Why your coffee doesn’t taste like a café’s: clean the machine

Good beans, filtered water, decent milk, and the coffee is still average. Before you blame

Which espresso machine for a patisserie? Four options

Four espresso machines for a cake shop, from a compact Appia Life to the automated

Nuova Aurelia espresso machines and C-Automation sets

The Nuova Aurelia line runs from the simple Volumetric machine to C-Automation sets that grind,

How to open a café, step by step

Concept, location, paperwork, suppliers, kit, menu, pricing, fit-out and marketing: what actually decides whether a

Which espresso machine for a café? Six to consider

How many groups you need, what actually affects espresso quality, and six commercial machines from