Barista Stories

Barista Stories: Jaideep Sidhu of Wide Awake Coffee, Brussels

August 7, 2026Brussels, Belgium

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...

July 18, 2026Madrid, Spain

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

July 10, 2026Gaziantep, Turkey

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...

June 29, 2026Munich, Germany

Thomson Khogres spent years watching someone else pour latte art before anyone ever showed him how. At 14,...

Jerry Kaandorp grew up scooping Douwe Egberts into a Moccamaster, the way most Dutch households did in the...

June 12, 2026Berlin, Germany

Italo Longato still remembers the exact cup. A small café in a tourist area of Lima, a coffee...

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

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