"latteart" news and stories

Let's face it. EVen with your $800 espresso machine sitting there gleaming on your countertop, you're never going to as good at making latte art as this guy.

However, with a little help from Stro-design, you might come close. Stro-design is a design company out of Denmark that makes cute stencils that you can use to embellish your capuccino and other foam-topped drinks. You simply place one of the stencils over the cup, dust with cocoa powder, carefully remove the stencil, and voila! You'll have one of the four intricate designs on top.

Okay, so you won't come close to the latte artist, but at least you'll be trying.

I want a coffee shop in my hometown that does this. Owner and latte artist Aaron Duckworth creates intricate designs on the top of lattes at his coffee shop, Espresso dell'Anatra in Kansas City, MO.

Now understandably, with line-ups out the door at various times of the day, it would be virtually impossible for places like Starbucks to even consider doing something like this to each individual drink. However I think this is kind of what we are all looking for when we make our way into a coffee shop and sink into the over-stuffed chairs, don't you? Not necessarily the art itself - that is just a bonus - but the time and care that is put into each cup of coffee.

According to Duckworth, the espresso temperature and foam have to be absolutely perfect or the designs won't hold, so you know that they have crafted a stellar cup of coffee for you.

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