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escape Coffee KS KS Pilgrim C Can’t buy love, but a cup of coffee is a close second. Bazaar’s global gourmands like Matt Preston and Rohan Marley spill Coffee silos at the Starbucks the beans on where to travel for the love of coffee. Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room, Seattle By Esha Mahajan IMAGE: COURTESY STARBU COURTESY IMAGE: BazaarEscapE An archival image of Sant’Eustachio il Fresh coffee served Caffé. Founded in 1938, it is one of at Seven Seeds Café Rome’s oldest and most popular cafés. ROME, ITALY Ponte degli Angeli, Rome The Secret Garden at the Hotel de Russie BY VIVEK SINGH, RESTAURATEUR MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA “An Italian’s passion for coffee, the art of making it, and the BY MATT PRESTON, FOOD CRITIC culture of drinking it, ensures that every cup you’ll drink in Italy LBEY; LBEY; I is made to perfection—rich, creamy, and perfectly balanced,” “There is a genuine enthusiasm and knowledge across the H P N N whole city to find great coffee,” says Preston. “The place is I says Vivek Singh, Michelin-starred executive chef and CEO ART full of coffee geeks, and specialty roasters and baristas that M of the London-based restaurants The Cinnamon Club, will spend hours fine tuning their grind and their tamp!” Cinnamon Kitchen, and Cinnamon Soho. AFÉ (2); AFÉ Favourite cafés: Proud Mary, Seven Seeds Café, and Fergus. C Favourite cafés: Settembrini Caffè, Caffè Camerino, and The Coffee ritual: Usually a strong, skinny latte to take away, and a ristretto while I Stravinskij Bar at the Hotel de Russie. am waiting. I love the whole ritual of standing by the counter waiting for that Drink of choice: A black Americano (double shot), no milk NGH. hot little cup of velvety richness. Will it be nutty or sour, fruity or smooth? I and certainly no sugar—I love the rich texture and have one VEK S VEK Pet coffee peeve: I hate the way restaurateurs appear to have taken the devil’s I every morning. This is what fuels my day! OURTESY SEVEN SEEDS SEEDS SEVEN OURTESY shilling and moved to dodgy pod coffee, which is fine for a hotel room or home C Cooking with coffee: Coffee adds great depth and flavour to kitchen but an aberration at somewhere that is supposed to be serious about dishes, especially desserts. One of the most popular desserts at their food. Cinnamon Kitchen is the Valrhona Chocolate Fondant and O FORTE HOTELS; V HOTELS; FORTE O The perfect shot: A shot is when you discover if the person making it really CC Coffee Parfait. SE FROM TOP LEFT) TOP FROM SE Seven Seeds Café cares. A really great short black for me is a masterpiece to rival the finest wines. I KW C LO OFFEE (2). OFFEE C STENSEN; RO STENSEN; C I MAGES: ( MAGES: MARLEY MARLEY I The sprawling DE; PETER B. KR B. PETER DE; I PARIS, FRANCE Marley Coffee Farm A BH A BY MONICA BHIDE, FOOD WRITER IC When Monica Bhide, a food writer based in ; MON ; BLUE MOUNTAINS, JAMAICA I Washington D.C., visited Paris for the first time many BY ROHAN MARLEY, FOUNDER, MARLEY COFFEE years ago, she learned how to truly savour a cup of AFE LOM AFE Legendary musician Bob Marley always wanted C cappuccino. “My host told me that Parisians think of a to return to his farming roots. Now Rohan Marley AFFÉ; C cup of coffee as a way to slow down and enjoy one’s day, L L lives his father’s dream with the 52-acre Marley I O O I not to speed up and rush through the day,” says Bhide. H Coffee Farm atop Jamaica’s Blue Mountains, which C During a walking tour of the city they stopped at a café, he founded. “There’s nothing better than enjoying where Bhide had “the most blissful cup of cappuccino.” a cup grown sustainably right there on the earth Favourite cafés: Café de la Paix, Café Lomi, and Café below you, while taking in the gorgeous views of the des 2 Moulins (featured in the 2001 movie, Amélie). mountain,” he says. Ideal coffee: Aroma is important to me. Also I don’t like Favourite cafés: Café Bleu, and One Love Café at the coffee that is brewed for so long that it tastes burnt. A Moulins Bob Marley Museum, both in capital city, Kingston. EUSTA SANT’ HOTELS; FORTE O Café des 2 CC good cup of coffee is like a good glass of wine—it Café Lomi Ideal coffee: It has to have a complex aroma and should have understated elegance. long finish on the palette. I like Drink of choice: I am totally partial to a medium roast, and drink my RO OURTESY C cappuccinos. How many cups a day depends on coffee with a little agave. how much writing I have to get done! Usually I stop Earliest coffee memory: We at about three cups. had coffee plants on our land, Earliest coffee memory: I remember as a child and my grandmother would LEFT) TOP FROM SE I growing up in Delhi, I was not allowed to drink KW pick the coffee cherries, hull C coffee or tea. My earliest memory is drinking dark, LO them and dry roast them in the C over-brewed, petrol-like coffee during my final exams sun for her daily cup. It instilled in my engineering days! ➤ MAGES: ( MAGES: in me a connection to farming. I 302 303 BazaarEscapE Tomoca Coffee Bar at Tomoca Cafe in Starbucks Reserve Roastery Radisson Blu, Addis Ababa Addis Ababa and Tasting Room, Seattle E; E; I SEATTLE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA H ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA C T I BY DEEPA HALL, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS INDIA, TATA-STARBUCKS BY HIYAW GEBREYOHANNES, FOUNDER, TASTE OF ETHIOPIA AN R AN I It’s no secret why Hall would choose Seattle as her favourite coffee city. Gebreyohannes can only enjoy coffee in Ethiopia. “The aroma of the Caffè Fiore “Starbucks started its story in Seattle and it has been my home for a roasted coffee convinces me to join friends or family for a few cups while BR OTEL; H number of years,” she says. Starbucks also opened a 15,000 sq ft roastery LU LU we chat about life,” he says. A pot of coffee or a stop at a café before work AYLUR. RAM I B and tasting room—the first of its kind—in Seattle last December. Seattle just doesn’t come into play when he is in New York, where his prepared SSON SSON I also has independent coffee shops and smaller chains like Victrola, Caffè food service, Taste of Ethiopia, is based. AD R Fiore, and Milstead and Co. Favourite cafés: Tomoca Coffee Bar at Radisson Blu, Keba, and Kaldi’s. MBATORE (2), SR MBATORE I The perfect coffee: Every perfect cup of coffee is brewed keeping in mind Coffee ceremony O : The person who has invited you sits in front of you as if C OURTESY OURTESY J C the four fundamentals—freshness of the coffee, proportion of coffee to you are her audience. She shows you the fresh coffee beans, and then roasts water, grind of the beans, and the water that is used. Brewing the coffee to them. Once the beans are perfectly toasted, she grinds them and pours suit your taste is what makes it perfect for you! VANTA BY TA BY VANTA boiling water. She serves you a small cup, and usually, two more after. I Best cup of coffee: A beautiful cup of Sumatra at around 6:00 a.m. on Coffee types: Four types of coffee grow in Ethiopia—forest coffee, semi SE FROM TOP LEFT): TOP FROM SE I October 19, 2012, moments before our first store opened in Mumbai. forest coffee, garden coffee, and plantation coffee. KW C LO C YAW GEBREYOHANNES, V GEBREYOHANNES, YAW I MAGES: ( MAGES: H I Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Ho Chi Minh City Latitude, the all-day diner at Vivanta by Taj-Surya HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM BY JITEN SUCHEDE, FOUNDER, JUGMUG THELA Suchede never liked coffee. But a 2008 trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, changed that. “Sweat flowed out of my pores as I cycled along the Mekong Delta on a sultry day,” he says, recalling the day he fell in love. Desperate and thirsty, he walked up to a K; K; coffee peddler and the local experience made C him a man of the coffee cult. Drink of choice: The Ca Phe Su Da, Vietnamese iced coffee made with condensed milk. This was the drink that started it all. Coffee culture: Local coffee is peddled T RODPHAN / SHUTTERSTO / RODPHAN T COIMBATORE, INDIA I fervently in Ho Chi Minh City, with coffee- NBERG; DEEPA HALL. DEEPA NBERG; I BY SRIRAM AYLUR, EXECUTIVE CHEF, QUILON on-the-go shops, roadside stalls, and even R GR R KS; PRAS KS; I C M He moved to London in 1999 to open Quilon—which still retains the Michelin I people who walk around with two buckets— A coffee house in star it earned in 2008—but Aylur favours his Indian roots for coffee. “There are one for coffee, one for ice. Everybody drinks Ho Chi Minh City many coffee-growing regions in the south, but accessibility is a problem in these VLAD HEDE; coffee all the time. Vivanta by Taj-Surya, C areas,” he says. “Coimbatore takes coffee seriously, and you don’t have to look too Coimbatore STARBU OURTESY No frills coffee: The real story of coffee is not C TEN SU TEN hard to get quality coffee.” I in some fancy electronic machine, but in K; J K; Favourite cafés: Anywhere in Coimbatore! But Vivanta by Taj-Surya C its beans—where it’s grown, how it’s dried serves a good cup.