Barista Stories

In 2007, Petr Holata took a part-time job at Cukrárna Alchymista in Prague for 53 Czech crowns an...

Maria Cristina Alexandra Sturdza will be the first to admit she thought working in a coffee shop would...

Angie’s first encounter with specialty coffee happened in Paris, during an Erasmus year spent searching for something that...

Felipe Bunemer Nojiri grew up in São Paulo, a city whose entire modern history is tangled up with...

Jaideep Sidhu found coffee the way a lot of good things happen: sideways, through an unexpected conversation. A...

Jon Townsend wanted to be a journalist. He ended up delivering papers at 6 am for five years...

Alyson was offered a cup of espresso at her job interview at Cøffe in Düsseldorf. She had no...

Ana Rubio Ramírez, a proud extremeña, did not fall into coffee through a barista shift or a competition...

Harun Aslan’s first taste of coffee was an Americano that made him pull a face and wonder why...

Ivette Vera Loor entered her first coffee competition before she really knew how to make coffee. She was...