Barista Stories

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...

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...

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,...

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...