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Gaggia’s Barista competition was held at the Restaurant show recently. It was the second year the competition was organized by our Caffe Academie. It was well represented by baristas from a wide variety of restaurants - Nandos, Apostrophe, Penny Hill Park, Est Café and Pizzaria in Taunton. The competition was judged by two heavy weights in the industry – James Hoffman and Paul Meikle-Janney, two world class coffee experts.
It was keenly fought over three days and was won by Fabio Farreira from Nando’s. Sylvia Walter and Monika Krzeszewska of Apostrophe came second and third respectively. We wanted to encourage the grass roots to improve coffees served in restaurants and we certainly did it again this year. This year we also had Anette Moldvaer, the World champion coffee taster as a special guest to give a first hand demonstration of coffee tasting. Anette shall be running the first of our coffee tasting courses in the Academie on the 24th of November in London. The Gaggia Barista Competition was well received by the baristas, employers and coffee roasters and we certainly hope to do it again next year. I should thank all those who helped in making this year's competiton possible. A special thanks to Richard Norman, Barista trainer. The competition was one of many activities we did this year at the restaurant show. The Gaggia cabaret on stage included a coffee themed magic show, Argentinian tango and some Brazilian music for those who chilled out at our coffee bar. |
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