Over a years we’ve been to a lot of exhibitions, conferences, expos, showcases, and trade shows, though zero utterly compares to a London Coffee Festival. This maze-like 3 turn uncover creates itself during home during a Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch and invites a whole city of London to suffer coffee—but that’s not all! The fest brings chefs, makers, artists, musicians, and most some-more into a mix, ensuring something for everybody and creation it probable to see something code new a 4 true days we’re there.
Here are 10 things one competence not routinely design to see during a coffee fest, in full force and on blast here during a 2017 London Coffee Festival.
Fresh Flowers
High-end cafes mostly group adult with tip florists to furnish one-of-a-kind arrangements to element a coffee celebration experiénce. Truly, to be a good shop, one needs good flowers. So because aren’t some-more florists showcasing their talents during these coffee exhibitions? Bloomon, a heroic Amsterdam-born flower arrangers have their talent in full arrangement here during a London Coffee Festival, and it’s down-right civilized.
Flower Blossom Tea
We’re large on tea during Sprudge. You competence not consider it, what with a mostly coffee focused features, though between shots of espresso we’ve been famous to drop a toes in a tea world. We’ve featured some truly impulse pioneers in a tea universe like Peter Luong of Song Tea and a excellent folks during Spirit Tea out of Chicago. And afterwards there’s Flora Tea here in London, who specialize some-more in a oohs-and-ahhs of tea instead of a singular oolongs and excellent assam. Simon Hao, who cranks out twenty to thirty of these shows a year, was on palm arrangement off Flora Tea’s blossoming beau-teas.
DJ Booths
There were booths aplenty during a Coffee Festival, providing opposite moods around a festival. Some George Michael good vibes pairs easily with an espresso martini (the song was improved than a drink, tbth). Some down-tempo untz-untz went down well-spoken with my Wush Wush. And some late-nineties Brit-Pop from nothing other than DJ Sprudge sounded good from a speakers during a La Marzocco counter late Saturday.
Sunglasses
Freddie Elborne, owner of Monc sunglasses, showed of his initial collection this year. The London-based engineer had 5 shapes on display, and underline his sunglasses during stockists in LA (Maher), Vienna, and London.
Virtual Reality
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Liqui Group and Crate 47 offering passers-by a singular event to try on a span of practical existence goggles to take a three-dimension demeanour inside their cafeteria interiors. What improved approach to suffer a festival than probably withdrawal it, entering a cafeteria from a destiny in Al Khayvat, Saudi Arabia? If we can consider of a improved way, we’d like to here it.
A/V Sensory Experiences (the V stands for Vaping)
Tate Lyle offering guest a possibility to taste on hunks of fudge while sniffing savoury vapors as a peaceful high-frequency new age played around sound-isolating headphones. The multi-sensory pairing suggested an extended benevolence in a fudge, though we let others suffer it. We’re honeyed adequate already!
An Enormous Tower of Chocolate
Don’t make me run, I’m full of chocolate! Hotel Chocolat combined an artistic 208 kilogram chocolate structure in a center of their chocolate tasting candy suite.
A Three Course Meal
London Coffee Festival continued a fine-eats coffee pairing with a three-course dish with a folks from Blend in London during a helm. Last year’s Scandivania Embassy knowledge was a tough act to follow, though Blend delivered some truly poetic coffee infused cooking for fest guests.
A Plethora of Nut Butters
News Editor Zac Cadwalader was on a butter flog all weekend, sampling spreads from seeds, legumes, nuts, and coffee. We counted 5 butterists during a show. Butter is big. Butter is spreading.
An English Secret Garden Party
La Marzocco requisitioned out a whole outside area, once left unoccupied in years past, and dedicated it to a 90th birthday with a cookout kick. A sacred out Linea espresso appurtenance baked adult meats and treats, with a foosball list and fully-stocked wine bar nearby. “We wanted to have somewhere for people to get some food, some drinks, and suffer a sunshine,” pronounced La Marzocco UK Ireland Marketing Sales coordinator Dan Harvey. Mission accomplished!
Zachary Carlsen is a co-founder and editor during Sprudge Media Network. Read some-more Zachary Carlsen on Sprudge.