Barista Stories: Italo Longato of Kaffee Kirsche, Berlin June 12, 2026Berlin, GermanyItalo Longato still remembers the exact cup. A small café in a tourist area of Lima, a coffee...
Barista Stories, Kami Zicháčková, Coffee Freelancer, Barcelona June 3, 2026Barcelona, SpainKami Zicháčková’s path into specialty coffee was anything but planned. A hospitality job in Ireland for the language,...
Barista Stories: Catherine Queiroz of NKG, Zürich May 29, 2026Zurich, SwitzerlandCatherine Queiroz volunteered as a timekeeper at the World Cup Tasters Championship in Brazil in 2018. Eight years...
Barista Stories: Valeria Kutuzova of Röststätte, Berlin May 13, 2026Berlin, GermanyValeria´s first serious encounter with coffee happened in 2010 in Donetsk, Ukraine, where a barista would shout across...
Barista Stories: Adrián Krišák of Kolektív, Bratislava May 6, 2026Bratislava, SlovakiaIn 2012, a teenager in a Slovak dormitory was watching latte art videos on YouTube and deciding, more...
Barista Stories: Tereza Procházková Balá of Doubleshot, Prague May 1, 2026Prague, Czech RepublicTereza’s first memory of coffee is a teaspoon of sweet black coffee, slipped to her secretly by her...
Barista Stories: Patrik Sláma of Káva spojuje, Brno April 24, 2026Brno, Czech RepublicSome people fall into coffee. Patrik Sláma fell into it, climbed out, looked around, and then built his...
Barista Stories: Fátima Félix dos Santos, Coffee Freelancer, Porto April 16, 2026Porto, PortugalFátima Félix dos Santos came to coffee the long way around. Before she ever pulled a shot or...
Cafe Stories: Le Levain Cafè in Rome, Italy April 16, 2026Rome, ItalyRome is a city where coffee tradition is literally set in stone, but at Le Levain Cafè, they’re...
Barista Stories: Esther-Hope Gibbs of Hope Espresso, Cardiff April 10, 2026Cardiff, United KingdomEsther-Hope Gibbs was about 10 years old when she first encountered coffee, not as a drink, but as...