Londinium Blog

We have tweaked the Teres blend from 90/10 to 92/8 to allow a little more of the Costa character to shine through.

Everyone talks about running their Olympia Cremina at or around 0.8 bar, and if you’re struggling to reconcile that with other machines running around 1.1 bar or thereabouts, there is an explanation although its a bit ugly. Unfortunately the ‘onboard’…

A lot of people like to use the term ‘bitter’ when describing a burnt taste in their espresso. For me this unnecessarily complicates the issue. For me ‘burnt’ is such a distinct and easily identifiable taste, even to someone completely…

A customer of ours called us asking to bring a Mazzer Mini electronic grinder over to try out on her Kitchen Aid espresso machine. Until then she had always bought pre-ground coffee, but had heard that buying a grinder and…

Well worth getting woken up on Saturday morning to receive this copper pipe and connector fittings. We hope to fit this to our Cremina sometime this week. In our view it is an essential upgrade as it means you can…

Yep, we’ve got single glazing. What’s a little early morning condensation anyway? We purchased our Cremina back in 2004. Since then the only upgrade we have added is the flat top plate which doubles as a cup warmer, albeit not…

Call us old fashioned, but there is a richness of unspoken information contained in a telephone conversation that is not present in email and text messaging. Telephone calls, even international ones, are as cheap as chips these days so pick…

It is not hyperbole to say that we agonise over every item of equipment that we offer for sale on this website. We are dedicated espresso roasters, but we think we have something to offer in presenting what we consider…

Without an espresso cup you can’t experience espresso. However, not all espresso cups are going to bring you the espresso experience you desire. Espresso cups come in a wide variety of designs and having tried a few of them we…