Im sure you must have some and I thought I should share one experience I had last night. Its probably minor compared to others but I was far from impressed to say the least.
Was at Perth Domestic Airport to see some friends off and figured Id get a coffee from Aerodrome while I was there. I didnt expect much I must say. There was no sign of drink prices anywhere which wasnt a good start, but a pie was $4.80 so that gave me a bit of an indication.
When the guy eventually served me, I placed my order for a small latte. Things started off OK; one thwack from the Mini, a token press from the built-in fixed tamper, and then load it onto the San Marino 3 group. It was hard to see the pour speed but I did see some big bubbles of liquid come out so I presume it was too fast. Then I waited to see how he was going to do the milk, as this is obviously important to the overall taste of a latte. Well he didnt. Thats not to say he served me a cold drink, but he picked up the jug which must have still been hot from the last drink, held the foam back with a spoon while the very liquid milk rushed out (i.e. hot milk not microfoam by any stretch of the imagination), and just at the end removed the spoon so a couple of big globules of foam deposited themselves on the top of my latte. I guess he figured a latte was a cappuccino with no chocolate, cos thats exactly how it looked.
My tongue still hasnt recovered from the scaldingly hot experience (I hate to think how hot it was when he first heated the milk!). The flavour was of coffee, but a very bland and disinteresting one, with absolutely no aftertaste. The texture of the milk was understandably thin on the tongue with absolutely no body, and I was charged $3.90 for this assault on my taste buds.
Greg
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Was at Perth Domestic Airport to see some friends off and figured Id get a coffee from Aerodrome while I was there. I didnt expect much I must say. There was no sign of drink prices anywhere which wasnt a good start, but a pie was $4.80 so that gave me a bit of an indication.
When the guy eventually served me, I placed my order for a small latte. Things started off OK; one thwack from the Mini, a token press from the built-in fixed tamper, and then load it onto the San Marino 3 group. It was hard to see the pour speed but I did see some big bubbles of liquid come out so I presume it was too fast. Then I waited to see how he was going to do the milk, as this is obviously important to the overall taste of a latte. Well he didnt. Thats not to say he served me a cold drink, but he picked up the jug which must have still been hot from the last drink, held the foam back with a spoon while the very liquid milk rushed out (i.e. hot milk not microfoam by any stretch of the imagination), and just at the end removed the spoon so a couple of big globules of foam deposited themselves on the top of my latte. I guess he figured a latte was a cappuccino with no chocolate, cos thats exactly how it looked.
My tongue still hasnt recovered from the scaldingly hot experience (I hate to think how hot it was when he first heated the milk!). The flavour was of coffee, but a very bland and disinteresting one, with absolutely no aftertaste. The texture of the milk was understandably thin on the tongue with absolutely no body, and I was charged $3.90 for this assault on my taste buds.
Greg
P.S. Mods: Feel free to move this elsewhere if you think it belongs somewhere better, or remove the establishment name if you reckon its a flame.

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But I should have.


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