Barista Stories

Kami Zicháčková’s path into specialty coffee was anything but planned. A hospitality job in Ireland for the language,...

Catherine Queiroz volunteered as a timekeeper at the World Cup Tasters Championship in Brazil in 2018. Eight years...

Valeria´s first serious encounter with coffee happened in 2010 in Donetsk, Ukraine, where a barista would shout across...

In 2012, a teenager in a Slovak dormitory was watching latte art videos on YouTube and deciding, more...

Tereza’s first memory of coffee is a teaspoon of sweet black coffee, slipped to her secretly by her...

Some people fall into coffee. Patrik Sláma fell into it, climbed out, looked around, and then built his...

Fátima Félix dos Santos came to coffee the long way around. Before she ever pulled a shot or...

Esther-Hope Gibbs was about 10 years old when she first encountered coffee, not as a drink, but as...

Jakub Sobota did not arrive in coffee through a dramatic revelation. It started with craft beer, a filter...

Some people open a café and then run it from a comfortable desk or armchair. Elisa Gutierrez Lopez...