Originally Posted by 3dit0r
Originally Posted by Jaapaap
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Italy is still the mothership for me, though. The best coffee I’ve ever had was in the little supermarket as you cross the border from France to Italy. It’s not even as far as the first town, Ventimiglia, and is nothing fancy. They have free parking and the French use it to lower their food bills and get higher quality ingredients. About 5 years ago, we went to get some ingredients for a picnic we were having with friends, and needed a coffee before the drive up into the mountains. The coffee machine was manned by a grumpy, cigarette-wizened old bloke and his fierce, and fiercely blond, wife. There were three types of pastry on offer and bare cafe tables and chairs which looked like a school lunch hall. It was full of locals, which I took to be a good sign. And they weren’t wrong! Absolutely sublime espresso, so good I got a cappuccino to try. Again, sublime. Beat all the fancy places here where the baristas obsess about profiling their shots (and filling their Insta feed with their latest latte-art and ink).

In Italy, it’s in the blood.

Food, coffee and wine, you can (almost) never go wrong with any of those in Italy. Most places serve a very good espresso for a Euro.
And nowadays you can find good "modern" coffee shops serving coffee and also selling ground beans of all variants.

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