Perth Coffee Blog


Perth Coffee Blog, a digest of sorts, covers on goings, some thought and info from across Perth's burgeoning coffee landscape and further abroad.

Ristretto is both a coffee roaster and specialist retailer focused on quality and "goodness" from seed to cup. We're open early from 6:30am M-F at three inner-city Perth locations:

---> Ristretto Coffee Roasters walk up espresso, coffee and fresh roasted bean retail@ 160 Central Arcade, 160 St Georges Terrace, Perth

---> Howard Street Coffee by Ristretto@ 22 Howard Street (rear of 89 St Georges Terrace), Perth

---> OPENING FEB 2012! Ristretto Coffee Roasters NORTHBRIDGE ROASTWORKS and walk-up coffee + espresso window @ rear 53 Aberdeen St, near William

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Ristrettos Vs Espressos

We are arranging a bit of a get together at Howard Street Coffee this Friday (16th December) at 1:30pm to discuss and demonstrate the differences between espresso and ristretto extractions from the Synesso machine. We’ll be talking specifically about the approaches and how a barista may consider these when working with a given coffee.

Allow 30mins max for your attendance and all the geeky wonderment and coffee obsessiveness that you can enjoy!

Why? Because we think that Perth (in particular) is still suffering from a legacy approach, which was quite appealing at the time, that stipulated that somehow ristretto extractions were “the way”, with some even saying “the only way”. 

So come and understand or confirm what each entails, taste some shots, explore and define the resulting experiences from using the same single origin coffee (El Salvador San Jose or Guatamala Atlilian Providencia, anyone?)

You’ll be able to decide for your self what’s better ristretto or espresso. 

Ristrettos Vs Espressos: 1:30pm this Friday (16th December) @ Howard Street Coffee (rear 89 St Georges Tce), Perth WA 6000