Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Yesterday Public Radio International’s (PRI) The World aired a broadcast on the Italian espresso: Espresso | PRI’s The World. While every news outlet in America was regurgitating Starbucks‘ publicity over their token three-hour store closure for employee training, reporter David Leveille took a different approach by interviewing the art of the espresso from a distinctly [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_training, gambero_rosso, italy_coffee, sant_eustachio, Starbucks

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This Italian bookstore and import store has been a long-time favorite of ours — but not for espresso. That is until just recently (Fall 2007). It first opened its doors in 1880, making it the oldest store in North Beach. It has changed owners a few times since then, and its newest owners just added [...]

Tags: danesi, espresso_review, gambero_rosso, italian_bookstore, north_beach

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I’ve been planning another road trip to Torino this October — my first since 2004. The wine and food are always excellent, the tourists are hard to come by (you can have an Italian city of almost a million people to yourself), Juventus is back in Serie A (and yesterday started the season off smashingly), [...]

Tags: Barista, books, espresso_review, gambero_rosso, italy_cafes, italy_coffee, slow_food, torino_cafes, torino_coffee

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