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. Impeccably dressed, very well-mannered and very good friends, they worked in the design industry in the local area. If you ever […]
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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, super busy, busier even than we are now and London was just recovering and in the glow of
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A couple of films shot by Kess Bohan
The Kaffeine Movies – Two short films showcasing what we are all about Read More »
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 finish up at 4 pm on a Friday afternoon (we try to
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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’. This year we were in the wonderful upstairs room at Square Mile with loads of space, easy access to
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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 would be to go to Square Mile on October 7th. Unfortunately, two of our pre-planned judges could
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It was a bit of a late start on Friday as either people were running late or they were all at the pub next door getting beers in. However, just on 7:30 we had a full house again with people ramming into our Eastcastle street store to watch 16 brave and fearless baristas competing in
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So that was massive. The people cleared out, the room was empty and we went ‘wow, so that was amazing’. The biggest crowd ever to come to a smackdown at Kaffeine rammed into our Eastcastle street store last night to cheer on their baristas as they battled for cash, prizes, an SCAE qualification course, huge
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It is back again, now for the fourth year and as per last year, there are a massive 64 places available. The London Latte Art Smackdown, sponsored by Square Mile, Coffee Hit, Victoria Arduino, The London Coffee Festival and Kaffeine, runs over five weeks starting with four rounds of heats from Friday the 9th of
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Quite a long time ago, we started a guest espresso program on weekends, whereby we would take off decaf on our second grinder and order in and dial in a guest espresso from various roasters across the UK and Europe on a weekly basis. To start with, it worked very, very well and we ran
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