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Kaffeine Alumni - 13 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, ...

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

A couple of films shot by Kess Bohan

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...

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. ...

Christmas Operating Hours

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#Smackdown19 - Heat One

Friday the 13th. A full moon. 16 baristas in the first heat of #smackdown19 trying to get into the top four after two knock-out rounds to best into the finals. When I arrived at 7 pm, the pub next doo...

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...

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, ...

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...

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&...

London Latte Art Smackdown - #smackdown16 - Round Four

It was the biggest crowd of the whole four weeks. There was seriously no more room at the inn as about 50 people crammed into Eastcastle street to watch the final heats and see who the final four woul...
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