A regular customer of ours (thanks Daniel!) that works in the Strip was visiting his family in Italy and “while in Rome” he picked up a kilogram of Tazza D’Oro’s Bar Blend- “La Regina dei Caffe”.
It is the best and famous coffee mixture of La Casa del Caffè Tazza d’Oro. In the last fifty years the blend has been secret and has been handed on three generations. It is unique because is composed by nine quality of the best arabica coffee. It has an intense aroma, creamy and complete taste of coffee.
So for the next few days, we’ll have it as another option for straight espresso or in the European-style drinks.
Hope to stop in before Sun if possible to see what y’all do with this with different dosing and whatnot. While the tazze we had of TdO in Rome was decent, it wasn’t the best we’d had the (neither did the Sant’ Eustachio, which is the other caffe most often mentioned as “best”). As many other coffeegeeks told us before we went, hard to get a bad espresso in Italy, but also hard to get a truly great one.
Rich and John- what was the verdict? Certainly our preparation is much more in the ristretto style and I’m willing to bet they don’t use as much coffee in Rome as we do on the Synesso. This probably makes it hard to compare the two, but I was pretty happy with the results.