Coffee Critic

Oh, the Coffee Academy has much to answer for. Now I’m an instant expert and judge. I was bumming around Albert Park yesterday with the baby, waiting while the eldest child was at cheerleading practice. Ordered a takeaway flat white at Laurent café in Albert Park Village. Woman a) didn’t flush the heads before making my coffee (a no no, it means there’s dud bits of coffee etc still in the head from the last coffee; and b) she barely tamped the coffee in. She used the preset buttons, so there would have been the right amount of water going through, but there’s no way with the coffee that loose it would have extracted correctly. Which explains why my coffee tasted weak. And this is supposedly an upmarket (well the prices are upmarket) café in an extremely upmarket part of town.