Originally posted by Yelta
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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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