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  • #16
    Originally posted by soviet View Post
    Yes this is correct. This last trip I returned from was a bit of a wine and coffee crawl across Europe and Italy though I only managed to get as low as Rome this year. Found a coffee shop in Venice (first visit) called Torrefazione Marchi. I love roasters in coffee shops, so gorgeous and the smell is amazing. Anyway thank you for everyone's feedback.
    We stayed in Venice for a few days approx a month ago, my son in law highly recommended Torrefazione Marchi, and, as luck would have it we stayed in a bed and breakfast approx 50 meters around the corner from TM, the owner/host at the B&B also recommended them highly, all looking good.

    We fronted up at 9am, as you say shop looked great, well appointed, roaster going, smells fantastic, very busy, I order a doppio and my wife ordered a cappuccino, what we were served was swill, my doppio was sour and luke warm with the barest trace of crema and the cappuccino was almost cold, what a disappointment! perhaps they were having a bad day
    Having said that we had coffee at probably a dozen other places in Venice which varied from very good to excellent.

    You may recognize the espresso cup in the image, son in law was good enough to tote half a dozen with saucers all the way from Venice to OZ, great cups, I treasure them.

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    • #17
      Just watched and episode of Foodie Planet on SBS on demand where they go to Rome. The opening of the show visits Sant'Eustachio cafe where they order the famous coffee asked by the OP. The guy in the show said its a shot of espresso over sugar that is then vigorously whipped producing the so called crema.

      Might give it a go for something different tomorrow.

      Javabeen.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by javabeen View Post
        Just watched and episode of Foodie Planet on SBS on demand where they go to Rome. The opening of the show visits Sant'Eustachio cafe where they order the famous coffee asked by the OP. The guy in the show said its a shot of espresso over sugar that is then vigorously whipped producing the so called crema.

        Might give it a go for something different tomorrow.

        Javabeen.
        Just had a look at the episode myself SBS On Demand | Unlimited TV & Movies When You Want | Streaming TV - Foodie Planet S3 Ep5 - Destination Romecertainly worth a look, the coffee segment is at the begining of the program and runs for about 4 mins.

        The Sant'Eustachio cafe is right behind the Pantheon, must have walked past it half a dozen times and missed it, what a shame, looks like a great spot.

        Notice the guard the crema secret pretty closely.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Yelta View Post
          Just had a look at the episode myself SBS On Demand | Unlimited TV & Movies When You Want | Streaming TV - Foodie Planet S3 Ep5 - Destination Romecertainly worth a look, the coffee segment is at the begining of the program and runs for about 4 mins.

          The Sant'Eustachio cafe is right behind the Pantheon, must have walked past it half a dozen times and missed it, what a shame, looks like a great spot.

          Notice the guard the crema secret pretty closely.
          Sorry to necro a thread, but I thought I'd share my observations. Went to Rome for like 8 days and ending up staying at a hotel about 100m from Sant'Eustachio (not on purpose; happy coincidence). On my way into town, the cab driver mentioned how awesome the places was and well, that sounded like a "must do". I think we ended up going there every day (and some days more than once.)

          My wife and I did the Gran'caffe pretty much every day. We only got there early enough (you know, before 11am) for a cappuccino once (not worth it either). We did a few other coffee places but the uniqueness of Sant'Eustachio kept bringing us back. Obviously, we really liked it and paid a lot of attention to the ~10 or so gran caffe's we drank.

          A few thoughts
          • They definitely use a granulated sugar in the base of the cup prior to the shot. Once or twice, we got a little undissolved sugar in the bottom of the cup. We also saw large containers of regular white sugar being being brought behind the "steel curtain". The sugar seemed like regular sugar; from looking at the container they were moving behind the curtain and the texture in the cup, it definitely wasn't powdered.
          • In a few of the afternoons, it was a bit quiet and we DEFINITELY heard some brisk whisking going on before we got our cups. Not long; a few seconds.
          • I guess it's possible they put the sugar in post pour, but I'm also fairly sure that by listening, we heard a spoon hit the cup after it was put on the machine (as in sugar being added.) that seemed like a consistent process. Wife agreed and she's got better hearing than I do.
          • You can order it w/o sugar; probably should have tried that in hindsight.
          • the beans are 100% arabica; no robusta beans in the blend, which I believe is not completely uncommon in Italy.
          • they roast over wood in house. We bought back a few cans and there is definitely a woody note to the coffee. It's fine coffee; it's not the best coffee but it's unique for sure. i didn't manage to come by when they were roasting which would have been cool.


          The crema was ridiculously good; totally worth using the spoon to scoop it up. Worth a visit IMO!

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