London Latte Art Smackdown - #smackdown15 - Round Three
It is the last week. Heat four of the London Latte Art Smackdown before we head off to Square Mile for the final with the top 16 baristas competing for prizes, money, trophies and glory. This will be fantastic, with an amazing cross section of competitors form across the top London cafes competing for the last four places to get in amongst it.
Last week in heat three, we had Tim ‘Styles’ Williams, one of the true legends of the London Coffee scene alongside last years winner David Urbinati form Artisan Coffee as guest judges, with our usual lead Judge and photographer Glenn Watson assessing the quality of the pours.
We even had Giovanni Fucilli from Victoria Arduino in the crowd checking on the pours and also how the Black Eagle was performing under all the pressure of making shots and steaming milk. Considering it is the World Barista Competition Espresso machine, it performed very well.
Laura from Curators
Piotr from the Peanut Vendor
Sam – Freelance Barista
Heidi – Prufrock
This week we have baristas from the following:
Look Mum No Hands
Curators
Kaffeine
Origin
Soho House
Timberyard
Blighty Cafe
Prufrock
Baxter Storey
Gails and
Climpsons
Judges include Glenn Watson, Phil ‘Bass player’ Wain and Claire Brice manager from Kaffeine.
Heats start at 7:30 pm, entry is from 7 pm, beers are £2 each and you are welcome to come along and support your staff or check what is happening.
For more photos, check out the link below to Glenn’s flickr account.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/getnoticed/sets/72157656043480153
In other news and linked to this, is that International Coffee Day has been announced as being on October 1st and is organised by our good friends at the International Coffee Organisation. They have a great video which promotes it, as well as a website/blog with all coffee events happening on the day.
http://internationalcoffeeday.org/
Peter Dore-Smith
Director
Kaffeine Ltd
66 Great Titchfield st.
15 Eastcastle st.
