Barista Stories

From Pindamonhangaba, a small city in the interior of São Paulo, Brasil, Luiz Araki has travelled a long...

Pedro Baumgarten has lived enough lives to fill several CVs. Musician, tattoo apprentice, DJ, designer, IT candidate: before...

Junchao Huang did not set out to become a coffee professional. Trained as an architectural designer, he arrived...

Lionel Crasto moves between two coffee worlds with intent. Raised in Mumbai and now based in London, he...

Junior Vargas Otero was born on a coffee farm in Cusco, Peru. Today, he lives in Vienna and...

At just 22, Volodymyr Petrina has already built a career many baristas spend years chasing. Originally from a...

Stefano Cevenini’s coffee story starts with a single espresso in Bologna. One cup was enough. Sweet fruit notes...

Erlend Andreas Wessel-Berg grew up around coffee long before he understood it. As a kid in Trondheim, it...

Ken’s relationship with coffee did not begin with admiration, but with a trend. What started as a visual...

Matt Cowie is a familiar voice and face within the UK coffee scene. Based in Glasgow, he has...