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    I went to check out James Hoffman's new Faema lever @ Prufrock London…I’ve seen many reconditioned ones but this unit is new/mint - wow.

    I ordered their two espressos taster - cup 1 was Red Brick using modern pump machine (Victoria Arduino Eagle One) vs cup 2 Il Grifone blend using Faema vintage lever. I expecting easy pick between the two but they pulled a modern espresso using the vintage lever (fast flowing, 1:3 ratio) which yielded v similar cup to the modern pump. I was able to blind pick which one was lever but mostly because I could tell the origin of the blend (Brazil was clear) - not necessarily the cups were very different. I would have preferred they pull a classic lever style vs modern espresso since for most people, that would be the obvious difference between the machines.

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    Nice! Looks like a great experience. The machine looks perfect

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    • #3
      BTW I presume coffee is getting better in the UK led by the likes of James Hoffman. My recollection was most of the coffee on offer over there was brown sh1t in a cup.

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      • CleanFinish
        CleanFinish commented
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        Berigora so it's been a decade since i was here and had the opportunity to explore. Back then your high street choices were Cafe NERO and Costa which were not great - dark burnt roast but at every corner. Then your speciality coffees were Square Mile, Hasbean, Prufork/Gwilym Davies. Then there was a barage of australian/NZ players like AllPress, Caravan, Workshop, St Ali. These days...I've been told by some UK roaster/barista champs the places to go are nordic centric - which i love, and will be focused on.

        So far, i see a lot of typical show case of international roasters: Tim Wendelbe, SEY (NY), CoffeeCollective (DK) and other nordics. ONLY Coffee Project in Sydney imports similar.

        So depending what you consider as 'good' espresso, London has plenty to offer. That said, SquareMile still taste like SquareMile - grapefruit like acidity which i'm not a fan but the development is better and more matured (good to see). The RedBrick I had today was one of the better ones - and the heavily calcium london water nicely add more viscosity/body and takes off a touch of acidity which brewed with less 'hard' water can be a bit much.

    • #4
      /|\ .....Descriptive word here is 'most'. And I Agree.
      But like everything in this world, anything thats worthwhile is usually never easy! Nor common. And in Europe hard to come across.
      If exceptional coffee was everywhere it wouldn't therefore be so sort after.

      And Australia should be smarter and register the trade mark(s) for flat white, Melbourne coffee etc....

      You can look up my post of a few years back (I might of regaled it on here a cple of times) of finding what I thought was a jewel in a back lane behind down back of Covent Garden, London.....A decent Cafe!
      OMG espresso at last.
      When the guy outside (I immediately thought he was the owner) actively stopped me from entering !
      Nah mate Im busting for a cracking good espresso....Can I get one here...?
      Yeah well you could but N.O T today!
      Oh come on mate Ive travelled 27,000km haven't had a good one for nearly a week now. What beans / roast are you using ?
      Ya be better orff walking up there about 100 yard there's Gloria Jeans on the left hand side ! And ya can come back here another day...
      G l o r i a J e a n s... N A H mate you musn't be understanding my Orstralian accent... I just want a decent coffee.
      *Yeah up there, go up there... there's a Gloria Jeans...on the left. Just round the curve in the lane.

      Well this exchange went back n forth for a minute or so, when I realised he wasn't gonna let me in.

      So off me n the Mrs trudge up this back lane to ....A.... Gloria Jeans. Ohhh the misery.
      Never been in one in my life!
      And yep true to his word...there was a Gloria Jeans. (BTW this is not an advert for GJ, I Am not a fan!)

      But this one ...had the syrup on my right as I walked in on top of the counter...blah blah blah etc.
      And I meekly explain I want a decent espresso.
      Aah your not from around here! ....where ya from then ? ....Australia.
      Oh well walk this way down the back here with me.....

      And there she went on to explain as I stood before a stonking good Synesso (iirc) & That she was one of three only GJ's in the world franchised to run a seperate machine / offering / doing traditional espresso.

      And the guy back down the road in front of the Trad Cafe?....well he was the Water Filter guy! And it was giving trouble today.
      So he was giving me the good oil when he said...not today sunshine!
      True story.
      *Shortened the exchange for the sake of easy reading.

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      • trentski
        trentski commented
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        Typical Australians claiming another NZ invention. Everyone knows that the Flat White is a NZ brew, originally from Wellington.

      • EspressoAdventurer
        EspressoAdventurer commented
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        Ok then Trentski...you guys can claim the Flat White....fare 'nough!
        Us Aussies will stick to The 'Flattie Whitay' then....
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