Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Good Life Coffee



Since arriving to Finland, we have been trying to findanswers to this question: What is Finnishcafé culture? So far we’ve found outdoor market café stalls, café kiosks, afarmhouse island café, and a waterside café in an old fish-drying house, butcafes with La Marzocco espresso machines and aero press' are a bit harder tocome by in this town. That’s why we were intrigued by Good Life Coffee, a very young and very hip café onKolmas Linja in Helsinki.


Lauri Pipinen, the owner of this baby café (only 3 months old) treated us first to some espressos, then cappuccinos and then a cup of the famous La Esmeralda (ooooh, lucky us!). Although Lauri can make a mean espresso, we found out that he, just like the other baristas we have met in Finland, are all aboutthe filter coffee. Lauri explained that Finns drink a lot of coffee but that the coffee they drink is usually a mix of 10 different types of beans – and that doesn’t tell you anything about the coffee itself. Lauri wants to serve a 'proper 'or 'good' cup of coffee (good green beans, good roast, good barista = good coffee) and there are plenty of people in Helsinki that would say that this is exactly what he is doing.





1 comment:

  1. When you come to Oslo, let us show you what we do with the coffee of barista world champion Tim Wendelboe! We add rinsed water, whisky, whipped cream and a little of sugar. Better known as Irish coffee! The taste turn out to be excellent. We offer you our Irish tomorrow at 7!
    Welcome to Bar & Cigar, C.J.Hambroes plass 2c, just three blocks from our main street, Karl Johans gate.

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