Posted by TheShot on 14 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
We’re rather shameless about our love for the espresso and cafés in Torino, Italy. So we could not pass on today’s travel article in The Guardian (UK): Lose the froth: Turin’s best cafes | Travel | The Guardian. So why do we love the espresso and cafés in Torino so much? To start with: grand [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 23 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, CoffeeRatings.com, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Occasionally this Web site can be the source of a real life story, and the story of Caffè Mokabar is a good one. For a little background, after a couple weeks of espresso research in Piemonte, Italy last October, we were most duly impressed with Caffè Mokabar among all the coffee roasters we encountered. So [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 20 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Concluding our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series (finally! aren’t you glad?), we’ve saved the best for last. We last visited Torino’s Caffè Mulassano in May 2004. And while we sampled many more Piemonte area cafés in our October 2007 visit, both times Caffè Mulassano came out on top for our favorite espresso in Torino. [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 17 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
The next-to-last café in our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series was chosen entirely at random. Torino’s Borgo Nuovo district keeps a lower profile than most, but it has quite a bit going on for the locals on almost every corner. Walking through this neighborhood on a Monday afternoon, when many of the storefronts are [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
As we wind up our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series (just three more to go!), we pay a visit to Caffè Vittorio Veneto. This café sits at the mouth of Torino’s grand Piazza Vittorio Veneto (known to the Torinese as simply “piazza Vittorio”) — designed in 1825 by architect Giuseppe Frizz, some 360 meters [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Just when you thought it was safe to keep reading this blog… Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series once again returns to Torino to start winding up the final cafés of the tour. And where better to visit next than Caffè Platti?Temas para celular Sony Ericsson 240×320 toques imagens . While a little off [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 25 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Foreign Brew
Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series continues with a return to Torino’s Piazza San Carlo. Caffè San Carlo may not be among Gambero Rosso‘s top 18 cafés in all of Italy, but they rated it with a very respectable 3 tazzine and 2 chicchi in its 2008 guide. With so much competition on this [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
We again return to Torino, Italy for our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series — this time for a review of Baratti & Milano, one of the top 18 cafés in all Italy as reviewed by the 2008 Bar d’Italia del Gambero Rosso (rated 3 tazzine and 3 chicchi). Founded by Ferdinando Baratti and Edoardo [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 01 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew
Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series next takes us to quite a historical café — and the closest thing to a tourist trap in Torino this side of the Holy Shroud. Caffè Al Bicerin was founded in 1763 as an apothecary shop and later remodeled as a café. But over the centuries it has [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 16 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew
Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series turns back to Torino for an espresso at Eataly — which has taken over the former Carpano vermouth factory across the street of Torino’s massive Lingotto complex. Torino is also the birthplace of vermouth and consequently the apéritif. (I am also quite a longtime fan of Carpano Antica.) [...]
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