Kaffeine

Inside the
Mind of a
Coffee Shop
Owner.....

30th April 2021

Kaffeine Alumni - 15 years of Legends

When I opened in August 2009, we started with two baristas, 1 chef and 1 part time service person. By March 2020 we had grown to 2 locations and 23 full and part time staff consisting of 2 managers, ...

4th August 2017

The Kaffeine Movies - Two short films showcasing what we are all about

A couple of films shot by Kess Bohan

10th November 2020

Rave Culture and Specialty Coffee - A comparison

This is a direct copy from a speech I did at the Industra Wave Coffee Conference in Brno, Czech Republic back in 2018. I have tried to make the correlation between the starting points of rave culture...

7th January 2020

Recruiting

Kaffeine is an established, independent Australian owned café with 2 locations in Fitzrovia in central London that is recruiting for a barista to work at our original Great Titchfield Street store. ...

15th June 2019

Half Cut Grapes - One of the 1%'s

After we opened the doors in August 2009 we started to recognise two gentleman who came in virtually every weekday, sometimes up to two or three times in a day. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, coffee. Impec...

22nd July 2018

Kaffeine Legend - Josephine 'Josie' Snee

In April 2013, we started looking for a person to start on service. The period of 2012 to 2013 was massive for Kaffeine, in fact it was massive for the whole London specialty industry. We were super, ...

24th November 2016

Kaffeine Legend - Sam 'Boni' Boniface - Lead Barista

It has been a month since he left, in fact it took a while to get him to leave, as he kept coming back to cover shifts or to do more classes just after his actual real final day. He was meant to finis...

10th October 2016

London Latte Art Smackdown - #smackdown16 - The Finals

I was nervous, so I assume the competitors were nervous too, but who knows? Some openly showed it, some admitted it, some just cruised in, had a few pints of lager and said ‘let’s do this&...