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  Before going around Lisbon Specialty places I was living in an oblivion regarding cappuccino, being honest.   I wrote about lattes, because I stopped seeing any point in them. It was not something from the outside that I witnessed. It was actually making barista shifts, and getting to that conclusion. I made the point … Continue reading #59 – Cappuccino: lost and forgotten

  When I was a kid, one of my favourite books was the book called “Bad Advices”, basically a reverse psychology for kids :), where the author was giving ideas of how to do the craziest things that will annoy your parents the most – for example, to throw away your breakfast from the window, … Continue reading #58 – “Bad Advices”: tips how to make your cupping meaningless

  Some time ago, probably even a year ago, I wrote a post about serving specialty coffee in a country with high consumption of robusta, like Portugal is. And now, the time passed, and like with any other thing, I think the moment came to repeat it, at the new level. The scene grew immensly … Continue reading #57 – Serving Specialty Coffee in Portugal Vl.2 – short marketing intervention

(Leer en español) When I just entered coffee world,  and I will not call it specialty coffee world, because it was, as I see now, commodity coffee – I did not know anything about varieties, origins, and processings. And I was exploring. So I could easily try Sumatra coffee, or Indian Monsoon Malabar, or Jamaica … Continue reading #56 – And now seriously… Do we even come to evaluate the taste of coffee?

Specialty community has some ideas that I wouldn’t say I agree with.   And “educating the customers” is definitely one of them.   Every time I hear from somebody in Specialty that our goal is to “educate the customers” I know with 100% of certainty that this person is not seeing the scene wide enough. … Continue reading #55 – “We don’t need no education” – or why the desire to “educate” your customer is simply rude

  It is funny how things are interconnected, and topics are almost floating in the air. You can almost believe that they are out there, in the common space, and anybody can just reach out and… I was getting to one topic today, due to the complex combination of events and thoughts about those events, … Continue reading #54 – Finding your own voice as a Specialty Coffee Shop

This one will not be a practical post, and neither it will be technical, or anything close to that. I have some of those coming after, but today I am gonna be talking about myself. Not humble, but honest 🙂 This place came to life because I was thinking about a platform to be putting … Continue reading #53 – About my vision, and about why “Sin Mentiras

Lisbon: Espresso Map (September-December 2017)   So here I am, putting altogether the experience (sensory, mainly) I have been having these months, visiting Lisbon Specialty Coffee places. If you are following me on Instagram (@cafesinmentiras), you probably already saw me going to these places, sharing some information about the espressos they are serving, how they … Continue reading Lisbon: Espresso Map

Is it shocking to say it, or not so much?.. I don’t know about you, I am in the situation of pouring them a lot every day, because people order them, but I also have clients asking me what’s the difference. Between latte, flat white, and cappuccino. And I explain. Milk/espresso ratio, type of foam, … Continue reading #52 – Is there any point in lattes?..

(Leer en Español) Sat down with the idea to write about one thing, ended up thinking about another. Thinking a lot about crema last days, does the color matter? Do the stripes matter? I mean, we all know something about it, from old school standarts. OR how overextracted and underextracted espressos probably look. I am … Continue reading #51 – (Non)generalization

… othewise it is just something else.   All of us know that saying “we have the best coffee” in social media does not need any criteria behind it. There will always be somebody who will say that particularly this coffee is the best. This list not only takes in consideration if the place is serving … Continue reading #50 – Check-list “Is it a Specialty Coffee Place?”