Catalina Latte Art Throwdown

Lorenzo, from the West Lynn shop took second place at a latte art competition this weekend in Houston. Catalina hosted the event and it sounds like it was a lot of fun. Dan took first place. He is the salesman for our coffee roaster. Jason got third. It is really cool to see these types of events happening and coffee shops willing to host them. So cheers to you guys at Catalina! And congrats to Lorenzo for rockin his stuff. Aaron Blanco took this picture he owns Brown Coffee Company.

SCRBC - South Central Regional Barista Competition

It is official!! The competition will be held here in Austin - October 31 through Nov 2. The competition will be at the Radisson hotel downtown. It is going to be wild and crazy. We should have a bigger Barista turnout this year. Everyone is welcome to compete and watch. More info later. Also check out the SCRBC website



Patrick Pierce (Caffe Medici) won last years competition and will be back this year along with some coworkers. Clancy Rose will be competing again this year, he came in second. He is now roasting our coffee and rocks the roasting pretty hard (he will compete for Cuvee this year). We will keep you up to date on who will be competing from Medici.

Goodflow temporarily closed

Our juice provider had to close down last week because of the FDA. Here is a clip. They didn't pasturize their juices. They have been doing this for 30 years and all of the sudden the FDA tells them to stop. They didn't have any problems with the juice, but they where shut down in order to comply with the FDA. They are going to open a new facility and we will start carrying their juices when it opens. Good luck to Judy and the Goodflow people. We are still your customers.

SCRBC - South Central Regional Barista Competition

Man that is a mouth full! Last year our regional was held during the Texas Restaurant Association's (TRA) big show. However this year we couldn't tag along with this event. So we are looking at a stand alone SCRBC. Right now we are looking for a space in Austin to host the event. Hopefully by the end of next week we will have this locked in. That is the goal. There are a lot of people working on this to get it going.

Mike from Cuvee, did a fantastic job last year for our first ever competition. Douglas from Waterfall Gourmet Beverages, Mike and Dan from Cuvee, and Aaron for AHH coffee in Dallas are a few of the people working to make this happen. We need sponsorship, media coverage and a space for the event. So if you want to be apart of this years event please email Michael.

For all competitors. There will be more info in the coming weeks. I haven't checked the official SCRBC sight yet but I am sure that will be updated to. I think Cuvee will do some training session for anybody who is interested and I think we will do some mini-jams for any competitor who wants to come by and get some time on a machine. Just give Patrick an email.

We are excited about this years competition. We need to get the word out and the buzz started. Hopefully we will have the location by next week and we can start on the rest.

Michael

The Medici Crew

Here is a picture of the medici peeps before we opened our Medici Guadalupe location.

Skip Hunt - Photographer

Come meet Skip Hunt who is currently displaying his photographs in our shop. The Event is July 19 from 7-9 P.M. This is at our West Lynn location.

Guadalupe is open

I just wanted to share some pictures from the build out with everyone. Cameron has some video clips that I hope to post soon also. We are in our fourth week and business is picking up slowly. It should get pretty crazy when school starts.

Ultimate Barista Challenge

Ok, this is very late, but better late than never.

Lorenzo, who is in charge of our catering, competed in the UBC. He won the Frappe contest, second in best of brew, and second in the coffee cocktail. He did really awesome. The competition is very similar to Iron Chef.

I will put up more info on his drinks he prepared later.