Barista Stories: Harun Aslan of Cezve&More, Gaziantep July 10, 2026Gaziantep, TurkeyHarun Aslan’s first taste of coffee was an Americano that made him pull a face and wonder why...
Barista Stories: Ivette Vera Loor of Híbrid Café & Nomad Coffee, Barcelona July 3, 2026Barcelona, SpainIvette Vera Loor entered her first coffee competition before she really knew how to make coffee. She was...
Barista Stories: Thomson Khogres of Humpback Whale Coffee, Munich June 29, 2026Munich, GermanyThomson Khogres spent years watching someone else pour latte art before anyone ever showed him how. At 14,...
Barista Stories: Jerry Kaandorp of Jeronimo Specialty Coffee, Skopje / Aalsmeer June 19, 2026Skopje, North MacedoniaJerry Kaandorp grew up scooping Douwe Egberts into a Moccamaster, the way most Dutch households did in the...
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...