Teach you how to judge whether a cafe is good or bad in ten minutes.

What do good cafes have in common?

Zheng Chenyu (Zhihu ID), a coffee expert who has visited more than 300 cafes around the world, said: good cafes are personalized, full of love of things, and craftsman spirit.

Because of personalization, it is difficult to find homogeneous things, and even coffee thickeners of the same brand may be tailored according to the tone of the store.

Here are the key points of her assessment of the quality of the cafe. Do you agree?

LaMarzocco

-- one

Coffee machines are usually not bad in shops with LaMarzocco concentrators, and some coffee machines are even specially made according to the color of the store (LaMarzocco machines are very good-looking, note that the cups here are made by local ceramic shops, and often coffee cups work with local artisan)

Mazzer

White concentrator bean grinder (grinder) is usually Mazzer.

There are two grinder mazzer bean grinders on the right.

-- two--

Coffee shops with well-equipped hand brewing facilities generally have single beans (from a certain country, such as Ethiopia, Colombia, Brazil, etc.), a set of high-quality hand brewing utensils, stainless steel kettles (Hario brand in Japan), filter paper, electronic scales for coffee.

Some ceramic hand racks with their own LOGO, such as Blue Bottle in the United States.

-- three.

A cafe with good decoration / details, big or small, must have some unique details, such as the tiles on the floor, the wall behind the barista, the flowers on the table in season (maybe the flowers on each table are different).

Seesaw Cafe

The seesaw Cafe in Shanghai Jing'an Design Center has a good sense of design.

-- restaurant--

Baristas have a very serious attitude to do a good job in each cup (very time-consuming), with the spirit of craftsmen.

-- Wu

Coffee beans many coffee beans are self-baked (so the coffee beans are the same as their own name), and the local stores are roasting fresh, rather than chain beans such as illy or Starbucks.

After looking at the above five points, what do you think? do you have any other special ways to identify the pros and cons of cafes?

Source: Changsha Coffee Association