21st Street Coffee and Tea

A reporter from the Trib PM was doing a story on latte art and contacted us for an interview. I rambled on quite a bit about coffee, direct trade, milk, independent shops in the area and a bunch of other stuff- but I do think the write up will primarily focus on latte art.

It should be in Thursday’s Trib PM, barring any late breaking Roethlisberger contract details

Soooo the Trib also sent someone down to shoot some photos for the write up and video for the online version. So in between making drinks for customers I poured four or so example drinks. Below is the montage…

I had a couple of good ones- the rosetta at the beginning was my first pour and the still of the tulip at the end turned out nicely. The triple (Mary’s idea) kind of blew up on me and there were too many customers coming in to give it another go. I guess that’s what the latte art competition is like- you get a limited window, pressure’s on, so you do it or you don’t.

I would also like to add that the gentleman that shot the video paid for a couple of the drinks that I made so he could take them back to the office. By the time he was ready to go the drinks we had put into to-go cups were gone! It appears there is a latte thief on the loose in the Strip. I comped him a few Clovered El Cuervo’s- at least the coffees would be a good drinking temperature (better than the lattes anyway) by the time he got back. I’m thinking about filing a police report with the Strip’s new beat cop Elvis. I’m not done with this… not by a long shot.