Espresso drinks
Lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos and everything else built on a shot.
Americano
A double shot with hot water added. The simplest drink on any espresso menu and the one most often made badly,…
Cafe au Lait
Equal parts strong brewed coffee and hot milk, poured together into a wide cup or a bowl you can dip a…
Caffè Breve
A latte built on half and half rather than milk. Twice the fat, noticeably sweeter, and a foam that behaves…
Caffè Latte
The milkiest of the standard espresso drinks, and the one with the most room for latte art. A double shot under…
Café Mocha
Espresso, chocolate and steamed milk. Made with real chocolate melted into the hot shot it is a different drink…
Cappuccino
Equal thirds of espresso, steamed milk and foam in a cup no bigger than 180 ml. Scale that up and it stops…
Capsule Caffe Latte
A latte from a capsule machine that tastes of coffee rather than of warm milk. The trick is two short shots…
Cortado
Equal parts espresso and steamed milk, with barely any foam. Enough milk to cut the shot and not a drop more,…
Doppio
Two shots worth of coffee pulled through one basket as a single drink. Almost everything sold as an espresso…
Espresso
Nine bar of water through finely ground coffee in under thirty seconds. Everything else on this site with…
Espresso con Panna
A shot with a spoonful of softly whipped cream on top. Two ingredients, and the only thing to get right is how…
Espresso Macchiato
An espresso with a spoon of foam dropped on it. Macchiato means stained, and that is the entire brief: enough…
Espresso Romano
A shot served with a strip of lemon peel. It is worth trying and worth knowing that despite the name, there is…
Flat White
A strong short shot under silky milk with a thin layer of foam, served at about 160 ml. Not a small latte,…
Gibraltar
A cortado that got named after the glass it is served in. The story is better than the distinction, but the…
Italian Mocha Espresso Mix
A jar of dark, bitter-sweet powder that turns a mug of hot milk into a strong mocha in under a minute. It is…
Latte Macchiato
The reverse of everything else on the menu: milk goes in first and the shot is poured through it. Done properly…
Long Black
Hot water in the cup, then the espresso poured on top of it. Same two ingredients as an americano, assembled…
Lungo
More water through the same coffee, rather than more water added to it. That distinction is the whole…
Melbourne Magic
A double ristretto with silky steamed milk in a small cup, about two thirds the size of a flat white. It is…
Mexican Mocha
A mocha made with stone-ground Mexican chocolate, so it tastes of cinnamon and has a faint, pleasant…
Piccolo Latte
A single shot under a small glass of steamed milk. More milk than a cortado, far less than a latte, and…
Red Eye, Black Eye and Dead Eye
Drip coffee with espresso added. One shot is a red eye, two a black eye, three a dead eye, and the naming gets…
Ristretto
The same coffee, stopped early. Thicker, sweeter, less of it, and contrary to what you will read almost…
White Chocolate Mocha
White chocolate carries no cocoa solids, only cocoa butter and sugar, which makes this much sweeter than a…