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NOWHERE was truly the perfect combination of thoughtful design with a welcoming ambiance.Ĭafezal’s Basque-style cheesecake paired perfectly with a pourover.Ĭafezal is a coffee roaster whose Milan café offers similar aesthetic pleasures as NOWHERE, filling its equally small interior with bright blue zebra-esque wallpaper, marble countertops, and black-speckled tables. To be served a filter coffee in glassware alone was a gift NOWHERE’s thoughtful carafe-and-ceramic presentation made the coffee even more delicious as it oxidized, and the pink walls with pink marble tabling made me feel as though a modern art museum had designed the space. Apart from hosting NOMAD, the business works with their own label to supply espresso, along with the quickly growing Manhattan Roasters for other coffee options. NOWHERE’s offerings cover basically every café item you could think of within its tiny quarters, from single-origin espressos to wine, beer, tea, and a surprisingly robust food-and-pastry menu. In the midst of a NOMAD Coffee Roaster pop-up, I watched friends and baristas gather behind the register sporting brightly colored face masks emblazoned with the tagline “Made in Italy.“ It seemed as if everyone knew each other, and those who were strangers like myself felt welcomed to chat and ask questions about the neighborhood and the coffee. As its name implies, NOWHERE is all about community. So, it was especially refreshing to sit down inside NOWHERE and witness a neighborhood coffee shop come alive.

In Portland, a majority of our coffee shops are still serving brews in paper cups with takeaway-only options due to the pandemic. Many of us referred to NOWHERE as “the little pink café“ during our stay.

#CAFFE MILANO MANUAL#

While in Milan and Florence, I had the opportunity to visit a few spots that are focusing on sourcing light-roasted coffee, providing manual brewing options, and even serving American-style drip coffee to locals and wandering tourists.

However, much of today’s guidelines and practices for specialty-coffee brewing have challenged those traditions, and a new generation of Italian coffee is finding pockets of followers in the metropolitan cities. Italy is known for its long-standing traditions of coffee that are deeply rooted in espresso many Italy-based espresso manufacturers are responsible for what today’s global coffee industry has standardized for the ideal espresso machine. During my time in both Milan and Florence, I wanted to check out what each city had to offer in the world of specialty coffee by visiting some cafés recommended by our friends at FuoriHost. The Barista Magazine team has returned from the sunny sights of Florence and Milan, Italy, back to the cozy autumn nooks of Portland, Ore., refreshed and inspired by a week of incredible competitors and quality time with coffee friends. In between rounds of World Coffee Champs competitors, we had a chance to explore some of the exciting specialty-coffee cafés during HOST Milano.

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