In the last month I was fortunate enough to visit Brisbane and also Canberra. That was great but I was travelling light and had to search for a decent coffee at local cafes in both places.
I was amazed at the absolute cr@p standards in the vast majority of cafes that I visited, which numbered around 20 in all. It was largely an exercise in frustration finding a good coffee.
One of the worst cups came from a newish La Marzocco machine! It was like someone having a Ferrari and crunching gears. Rather than look for the type of machine used, I learnt to look for things that the professionals were doing wrong.
The biggest tip-offs for a reason not to even bother was:-
*plenty of ground coffee in the doser. I saw two cafes closing down for the evening and they were grinding the coffee to fill the doser for the next morning!!! I kid you not!!
*dried milk on the frothing wands.
What other tip-offs alert fellow Coffeesnobs to try elsewhere?
This was enough to put me off even trying the coffee there.
I was amazed at the absolute cr@p standards in the vast majority of cafes that I visited, which numbered around 20 in all. It was largely an exercise in frustration finding a good coffee.
One of the worst cups came from a newish La Marzocco machine! It was like someone having a Ferrari and crunching gears. Rather than look for the type of machine used, I learnt to look for things that the professionals were doing wrong.
The biggest tip-offs for a reason not to even bother was:-
*plenty of ground coffee in the doser. I saw two cafes closing down for the evening and they were grinding the coffee to fill the doser for the next morning!!! I kid you not!!
*dried milk on the frothing wands.
What other tip-offs alert fellow Coffeesnobs to try elsewhere?
This was enough to put me off even trying the coffee there.

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