Baristabarbar has been at the forefront of barista training in London for almost two decades.It’s been the main place where baristas have trained in London and also those who’ve flown in from around the world to experience this incredible institution.It’s become one of the most important coffee schools in the world and has been ranked consistently as being one of the top five globally.
It regularly has half of its participants coming from other countries, to central east London, where they participate in one of the best series of barista training workshops in the world. It continues to be incredibly important to the hospitality and coffee industry and is continuously expanding its barista training and barista courses.
Baristabarbar’s combination of advanced knowledge of coffee making, from everything from coffee roasting to extracting the perfect shot, makes sure places on the course are sort after by those joining the coffee industry.
Baristabarbar is expanding its barista training to include coffee profiling and coffee cupping.
Its coffee courses are regularly booked weeks in advance such is the demand to attend its legendary barista training programmes. To accomadate this it is expanding into the adjoined building in East London.
With espressos and coffee in general there is a sophistication in London now.The coffee scene has been completely transformed in London in the past 15 years.It’s really become quite interesting. And you’ve got roasteries now, independent roasteries that are able to provide incredibly high quality coffee and also to impart their knowledge of coffee making.It’s changed a lot with the explosion in independent roasteries and cafes throughout the city. There is now a quality and consistency in the cup.The London coffee scene has become world class. Baristabarbar was at the forefront of barista training in London. And it was able to bring to the table a completely new form of coffee school, as it was well placed to do so, because it was also a roastery as well. It was a mass produced coffee culture without any nuance or sophistication.And people were moving away from tea to coffee.And with coffee, you need a lot of skill to make those coffees really work.
Fifteen years ago the coffee chains dominated the coffee scene in the UK.
Chains like Starbucks and Cafe Nero were the first introduction to coffee that people in the UK got.
The coffee scene in east London led the way for independent coffee and Baristabarbar led the way from very early on. It was providing the barista training so that the independent coffee industry could thrive. East London was at the centre of culinary excellence and was open to new ideas. The fact that Baristabarbar was also roasting small batches meant that it had the best knowledge of profile and cupping and was happy to impart this knowledge. Even the take away coffee scene became very sophisticated around East London. It was new wave coffee at its best and Baristabarbar was a feature of the Barista Championships and the London Coffee Festival. The knowledge about coffee was increasing in the general population and Baristabarbar would run barista training on weekends for enthusiasts wanting to learn the best brewing methods.
Today, Baristabarbar is at the forefront of the coffee industry in the UK. Its still based in the converted warehouse in East London. It has excellent trainers that have been recruited from the best of the best baristas around London. It has managed to survive the pandemic and has been placed in the top 5 coffee schools in the world.
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