Posted by Mr Coolerer on 06 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Reviews
So your a resident of the Northern Suburbs of Sydney (just like me). You know every good cafe from the CBD to Palm Beach. So when you find out that the Gourmet Deli has re opened under new management you should be pretty excited, right? Everything is in his display cabinet is made in house. [...]
Posted by Mr Coolerer on 08 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Reviews
The foreshore at Warners Bay is a great place for a meal or a coffee. The views are great and there is enough variety in the food to keep everyone happy, but I’m not going to talk about that today. Instead I’m going to compare the coffee at two of the cafes on the high [...]
Posted by Mr Coolerer on 06 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Information, Reviews
by Don Holly There is a definitive clue as to the level of skill and knowledge of the barista preparing an espresso beveragehow he or she tamps the coffee. Tamping is the compacting of the ground coffee in the portafilter prior to brewing. How a barista tamps will be a major determinant to the quality [...]
Posted by Mr Coolerer on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Information, Reviews
John Raleigh Brown Says: When Magimix first introduced their food processors about 30 years ago, they came in strong, providing home owners in Burgundy, France, a feel of professional kitchen but in a smaller scale. It is no happenstance as well that such introduction was in the area where gastronomy was noted to be glooming [...]
Posted by Mr Coolerer on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Reviews
In the world of home espresso machines, few features are more prominently recognizable than the saucer-shaped E61 grouphead. Its expansive chrome surface certainly offers plenty of eye candy, but the popularity of espresso machines based on this design owes as much to its well-deserved reputation for “forgiving” minor errors in barista technique as to good [...]
Posted by Mr Coolerer on 18 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Reviews
Wild Food Cafe is a bright, new, organic food store, specializing in all things healthy. Their cafe towards the rear of the store is always busy, especially of a morning as local office workers, shop keepers and tradespeople queue for their first caffeine hit of the day. Their ever popular all-day breakfast menu is popular, [...]