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原來Barista 是咖啡師, 真係估唔到沖咖啡的人都有一個專業名稱, 這是西方人對每份職業尊敬, 很值得我們學習....初次去到位於上環蘇杭街126-128號地下D舖的這間Coffee Shop... "Barista Jam"..它的外表不吸引, 內部裝修都很wild !第一次幫襯, 叫了杯Cappuccino, 呀.....這杯是飲過最好味的Cappauccio, 由第一口到最尾都是一樣好渴, 一樣的溫暖, 唔使加糖加奶...就是恰到好處...如果陳豪說McDonald 的Cappuccino是perfect...這杯會是"much more than perfect"朋友點了杯Latte, 我也試了一口..嘩!! 幼細如絲, 很滑...飲到最後, 泡沫還是不會走樣第二次幫襯, 點了杯Espresso, 人生第一次飲Expresso, 因為害怕那苦澀味, 一直不願試....比想像中好飲,濃灸烈的啡咖烘焙味道, 彷彿感受到咖啡豆在烘焙時的跳動, 真正進入了咖啡的世界裡渴完一口Espresso, 真的不夠喉....老闆William推介他獨門Latte, 味道就是介於latte 與
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原來Barista 是咖啡師, 真係估唔到沖咖啡的人都有一個專業名稱, 這是西方人對每份職業尊敬, 很值得我們學習....
初次去到位於上環蘇杭街126-128號地下D舖的這間Coffee Shop... "Barista Jam"..它的外表不吸引, 內部裝修都很wild !
第一次幫襯, 叫了杯Cappuccino, 呀
.....這杯是飲過最好味的Cappauccio, 由第一口到最尾都是一樣好渴, 一樣的溫暖, 唔使加糖加奶...就是恰到好處...如果陳豪說McDonald 的Cappuccino是perfect...這杯會是"much more than perfect"
朋友點了杯Latte, 我也試了一口..嘩!! 幼細如絲, 很滑...飲到最後, 泡沫還是不會走樣

第二次幫襯, 點了杯Espresso, 人生第一次飲Expresso, 因為害怕那苦澀味, 一直不願試....比想像中好飲,濃灸烈的啡咖烘焙味道, 彷彿感受到咖啡豆在烘焙時的跳動, 真正進入了咖啡的世界裡
渴完一口Espresso, 真的不夠喉....老闆William推介他獨門Latte, 味道就是介於latte 與 espersso 之間, 有Espresso濃厚咖啡味, 也兼備了Latte的幼細和順滑

就是一個多小時, 我就第一次連渴4杯咖啡
, 一邊飲咖啡. 一邊和老闆談談咖啡的故事, 好像就是在咖啡世界裡走了一圈..除了是舌頭的享受, 還有知識上充實...
..這就是"much more than perfect" !!!
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C'est très bien !! Simply a place with style !!I lived in Switzerland for a few years and have tried very good coffee in different European countries. I cannot find any matching ones after I returned to Hong Kong until I tried Barista Jam. They've got the state-of-art coffee machines which make you think they are for "display" only. Of course they are fully operational, and matched with the perfect skill of the owner, William, make fantastic specialty café. You will also find very unique co
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C'est très bien !! Simply a place with style !!

I lived in Switzerland for a few years and have tried very good coffee in different European countries. I cannot find any matching ones after I returned to Hong Kong until I tried Barista Jam. They've got the state-of-art coffee machines which make you think they are for "display" only. Of course they are fully operational, and matched with the perfect skill of the owner, William, make fantastic specialty café. You will also find very unique coffee-ware for sale on the second floor.

The food there is also worth mentioning. The owner specially prepared a few dishes for us, including sandwiches, salad and pasta. The pasta was so perfectly cooked, "not too hard, not too soft".

A place i will highly recommend to my friends!
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No kidding! You have Soft Aroma, Coco Espresso, and now Barista Jam, all in Sheung Wan!As others have mentioned, this place is very very new, most of its cutleries and plates are so brand new it still has a shine to it. My husband and I shared a Steak & Mushroom Sandwich for lunch, and thank goodness we shared, the portion was too big for one to finish. This is as close to Australian steak sandwich as possible. The staff had the sandwich cut in half; steak was not hard to bite off at all; bread
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No kidding! You have Soft Aroma, Coco Espresso, and now Barista Jam, all in Sheung Wan!

As others have mentioned, this place is very very new, most of its cutleries and plates are so brand new it still has a shine to it.

My husband and I shared a Steak & Mushroom Sandwich for lunch, and thank goodness we shared, the portion was too big for one to finish. This is as close to Australian steak sandwich as possible. The staff had the sandwich cut in half; steak was not hard to bite off at all; bread was wholemeal; it had lots of vegetables in it; and it had either sweet chutney or some sort of jam in it as well, which is perfect to have. Pretty affordable too I'd say, only for HKD$48.

Their coffee, needless to say more, is wonderful. The others have said more than enough of it. For HKD$26, it is the most expensive of all my three favorite cafes in SW (still cheaper compared to Cafe Habitu or Cafe Cova, which I don't think make the best coffee compared to these guys), but hey, a girl gotta pamper herself once in a while.

Great spot to be in, although a bit secluded and you might almost just miss it as it's exterior is sort of grey and brown and black, you might think that it's just another hardware store like next door! But, I always love a obscure cafe.

P/S: Forgot to take pics of food, sorry.
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20-3-2010上次食雲吞麵 (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2061481) 後路過呢間咖啡店裝修中, 幾有興趣, 是日去先施買完嘢過嚟試試. 本來想試 "Piccolo latte", 但見店員手上的容器細如 shooter 杯 , 唔想飲咁 strong 了, 結果要了最常叫的 caffe latte ($26) 就算.Caffe latte 用玻璃杯 serve, 面頭奶泡畫了樹葉形 latte art, 幾靚. 奶泡賣相及質感一樣綿密幼滑, 咖啡溫度溫和, 飲落好滑, 好夠奶香, 咖啡味亦香, 無酸味, 唔澀, 飲完喉嚨勁舒服, 正 呢杯濃度比 Coco Espresso (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2038612) 的同類出品低, 啱晒是日「唔想飲咁 strong」的要求, 不過下次嚟會應該會叫「啃」一點的 Piccolo latte 了. 坐了上閣樓, 雖然一檯一櫈都好
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20-3-2010

上次食雲吞麵 (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2061481) 後路過呢間咖啡店裝修中, 幾有興趣, 是日去先施買完嘢過嚟試試. 本來想試 "Piccolo latte", 但見店員手上的容器細如 shooter 杯
, 唔想飲咁 strong 了, 結果要了最常叫的 caffe latte ($26) 就算.

Caffe latte 用玻璃杯 serve, 面頭奶泡畫了樹葉形 latte art, 幾靚. 奶泡賣相及質感一樣綿密幼滑, 咖啡溫度溫和, 飲落好滑, 好夠奶香, 咖啡味亦香, 無酸味, 唔澀, 飲完喉嚨勁舒服, 正
呢杯濃度比 Coco Espresso (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2038612) 的同類出品低, 啱晒是日「唔想飲咁 strong」的要求, 不過下次嚟會應該會叫「啃」一點的 Piccolo latte 了.


坐了上閣樓, 雖然一檯一櫈都好 "canteen" feel, 但靜靜的其實幾舒服, 幾好 hea 的一間咖啡店.

埋單 $26, 整體我還是較喜歡 Coco Espresso, 不過喺香港呢度都算 "master" 級吧, 值得一試的.
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This café is now my second favorite café in Hong Kong after visiting the place for three times over the weekend and one more time today. As others here said, the barista is knowledgeable in coffee and used to operate/own a café in Sydney before deciding to move back Hong Kong. He’s quite flexible in both talking coffee and greeting customer like a good host, giving one a sense of good neighborhood coffee shop with a kick, IMHO. While this sounds very mundane, I found most good cafés in Hong K
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This café is now my second favorite café in Hong Kong after visiting the place for three times over the weekend and one more time today.

As others here said, the barista is knowledgeable in coffee and used to operate/own a café in Sydney before deciding to move back Hong Kong. He’s quite flexible in both talking coffee and greeting customer like a good host, giving one a sense of good neighborhood coffee shop with a kick, IMHO. While this sounds very mundane, I found most good cafés in Hong Kong only did one thing very well and significantly lag in the other so much so that I always thought the combination never works here in Hong Kong. So, this is actually a gem.

Why barista “jam”? Because you can try pulling the espresso shot and froth milk by yourself with its second espresso machine, Orchestral, and the Taiwan made grinder 900 series which looks similar to super jolly. The main espresso machine is La Marzocco GB5 with two re-badged Super Jolly, I believe.

Talking about the machine, Barista Jam did consider the famous Synesso two groups but dropped the idea. Part of it is that there was no distributor in HK at the time. Our huge loss, indeed. As an aside, this great machine with rock solid temperature and superb cup clarity has its own reseller in HK at hkcoffee.com. I wish some café who really knows what they are doing consider this Synesso for the sake of themselves (durable) and ourselves (great cup clarity). I’m waiting…

Back to Barista Jam. Unsurprisingly, both Barista Jam and Coco Espresso, another good café in the same neighborhood, have lots of similarity. For one, they were from Sydney, Australia so you kinda can put some finger on them due to a significant exposure to good coffee in that part of the world. Also, the taste profiles of their coffee are very similar I couldn’t help thinking of the other café when I had coffee at one of them, ie somewhat more pronounced in acidity but milder overall taste. William, the barista at Barista Jam, blends Brazil, Colombia and Ethiopian beans by himself for his “house” blend while the blend at Coco has one more source of bean from Sumatra. The acidity of Barista Jam’s house blend complement greatly with its cappuccino like what I read about how Sydney’s coffee should taste like. To this end, I prefer a more velvety texture and somewhat sweet frothed milk at Barista Jam to that of Coco though the difference was not that much.

Ristretto from Dane’s Caribbean blend, an imported coffee bean from Australia, was too subdued, reminding me of but no match to the subtlety of Chicago famous Intelligentsia’s Black Cat blend. This Caribbean blend is, in the barista’s word, a “lady” coffee and, according to him, typical for Sydney’s coffee. I didn’t like it that much and I doubt about its freshness; William indicated he will not accept coffee more than three weeks from the roast date.

Ristretto from its locally roasted blend which was also used in its capp was much better. Still, both shared the same problem, IMHO, i.e. no syrupy consistency I can easily find at Crema Coffee, hkcoffee.com (local custom roaster – not café though) and, at time, Café Corridor. Again, the coffee kinda reminds me of Coco Espresso but more forward on every front which I like. This blends was at that time 2 weeks after roasting vs. Barista Jam’s suggested sweet spot of three weeks.

Barista Jam also served filtered coffee and I had Peru FTO French press. The coffee was quite clean and, at the hint of its barista, had some fainted strawberry flavor. Nevertheless, it was so bored and dull. Not that the coffee was really bad; I also experience the same tasting note from Peruvian coffee carried by Glory Coffee, another Sydney based coffee people, a while back. Blame it on my taste then.

Another coffee I had is Piccolo latte which is more expensive than capp and actually a more condensed version of this kind of drink, ie much less milk vs. coffee. It was supposed to wow me but I didn’t feel much. In fact, I prefer my cappuccino much more. So, try it if you want less volume for your drink.

Its cake/pastry offering was very similar to Felix's Cafe Corridor I think they actually come from the same place. The pasta and its breakfast were OK, just like you had it at your friend house though I preferred foods from Café Corridor much more.

This would have concluded my note; however, it gets better.

I dropped by last Saturday morning and, kudo to Boris, another fellow coffee lover, for Square Mile's Winter Espresso blend. You can look up the tasting note and the background of James Hoffman and Square Mile on the web. Simply put, he’s one of the best coffee guys at the moment. I had two of so-called test shots of this blends. Boy, one of the best I ever had. Tons of marmalade jam flavor in the cups, indicating that William, the barista, is capable of pulling a god shot. If I remember correctly, I see some tiger speck in one of the cups, a sign of great espresso pull.

I had another shot of winter espresso today. While the taste was more rounded as the coffee aged/rested and the marmalade note was still there, I kinda missed a more forward balance of the taste I had when the bean was fresher last week. In fact, the nut/peanut aftertaste was now much more prominent and, just for me, I don’t like this taste in my cup. Mind you that Barista Jam followed James Hoffman’s guideline on resting the coffee a while and up-dose the coffee, making this special espresso pricier than its regular offering. However, it’s worth it. William plans to have this kind of ‘special’ espresso from renowned blends he picks from around the world in the future, a great idea for us coffee lover indeed.

Decoration wise, this one is sort of minimalist in its style and quite comfortable to sit though I prefer the homey feel of Coco Espresso much more.

In all, I like this café a lot, particularly the energy of the owner/operator. As the café is quite new, around 1-2 months in operation, I can only hope he can keep up the level of creativity, energy and enthusiasm easily shown to his clients and me on my visits there. I would suggest you to drop by this café sooner than later and highly recommend you try his special espresso offering.
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Somebody pull espresso badly, they are workers.Somebody pull usually good espressos, but they don't understand how to change according to conditions, they are pullers.Somebody pull good espressos, and they can change accustoming to weather, bean batches and other factors, they are Barista.Somebody may not pull a good espresso, but they knows, or has a eager knowing all the theory behind coffee making, they are coffee geek.The Boss of Barista Jam, William, is a Barista and a Coffee Geek.And I kne
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Somebody pull espresso badly, they are workers.
Somebody pull usually good espressos, but they don't understand how to change according to conditions, they are pullers.
Somebody pull good espressos, and they can change accustoming to weather, bean batches and other factors, they are Barista.
Somebody may not pull a good espresso, but they knows, or has a eager knowing all the theory behind coffee making, they are coffee geek.
The Boss of Barista Jam, William, is a Barista and a Coffee Geek.
And I knew that it is a coffee geek's place when see its name, and I can confirm it when I see the setting of this coffee shop.
In Hong Kong, any shop would be proud if they carry a LM GB5, (which is an expensive but very versatile espresso machine) but no, No-nonsense Willian installed another Etnica with E61 brewhead within customer's touch, arranging both machine in a way that Barista Jam is possible. There is even a naked (bottomless) portafilter, which is a geek tool to examine how good/bad a pull is.
William himself, althought is full of geek talks and jargon, still friendly enough to be a barista(Not really geek-geek like me lol) but dun expect him to be soulmate nigel type of friendly or coco Johnson's family like

Okay, Here comes the real review.
Espresso :
First thing first, William has not figured out his house blend yet (He was cupping with his friend during my first visit), so he is using Dane's beans as makeshift for the time being. As I stated in the review of "The Blend of Danes" (I'll refer it as Sun Po Kong or SPK Shop later)
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2060318
Despite being roasted in and imported from Australia, Dane's beans are usually very fresh and comparable, if not better, than most of other locally roasted blends.
Honestly, I feel the Carribean Espresso pulled here is less sweet and flatter than that of the SPK Shop, body is less bold but creamier. William contributed it to the difference of GB5 and Etnica's pre-infusion system.(You see? Geek talks
) Well I'm not a pro so I'm not here to judge, but I think the grinder is also a huge factor
I'd rate low 5 if I have not tasted the blend in SPK shop, but it's still a mid 4 to me


Picolo Latte :
A good mix with milk, blend well but still feel the layers, albeit lacking finish. mid 4

Special - Single Origin Espresso (Colombian Huila Valencia Excelso):
This SO Espresso is not on the menu, it's only a demo as I wanted to buy some beans home. Again, the espresso came out very creamy smooth with a orange skin finish. Interesting.

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知道在上環開了所新的咖啡店,就找了一個悶到臭的晚上來碰碰運氣,因為咖啡店(除鎖式經營的除外)通常也不會開到晚上的,來到看見店內有不少人,心想好彩,立即入了去找了個位置坐好。

原來剛才那些人全都是店主的親朋戚友,而很多店員也圍在煮食工具旁,看似是在培訓中,似乎此店還是在試業階段,但有理無理,來到當然要喝咖啡,還要是一貫的作風,一杯奶系的,再一杯Espresso就可以了。

奶系的咖啡中,今回選了Piccolo Latte,真的是第一回在咖啡店看見這個名字,店主說這是一款介乎Cappuccino及Espresso Macchiato之間的咖啡,說是由One shot of Ristretto加上Steamed Milk,既然咁少見,咁新奇,當然要試,過了一久就有得喝了,看上去樣子也很美,用上一個細細的Latte玻璃杯,面層一個葉形拉花,至於味道又如何唸?

也先用鼻子嗅一嗅,以奶系的咖啡來說,此杯咖啡的咖啡味挺強,但又沒有上回在Danes喝的那杯Cappuccino那麼強,可能是因為用上Ristretto為Base所致吧!然後一口呷下,咖啡的溫度是可以熱多丁點,而奶泡是薄薄的一層,再加上細滑的口感,這明明就是Latte的感覺,直接而簡單的說,根本就是一杯Mini Latte with stronger coffee taste,但怎說也好,咖啡入口確是滑溜,味道又夠濃,而且很有奶香,咖啡中的酸性完全被奶香所遮掩及中和,真的很是不錯,對我此等愛口味濃的人來說,這杯Latte比普通的Latte更得我歡心。

之後也來一杯Double Espresso,也是先嗅一嗅,咖啡香味跟剛才的很相像,至於Crema層的厚度屬於中等,但至少是比最低標的十份一為多,Crema夠厚,油潤度夠,香味濃,咖啡的濃度及溫度也是很夠,喝下一口,真的是百感交雜,先來的是很順滑的咖啡醇香,之後滲出可可及果仁等的味道,甚或是有點麥味,不算很是Smoky,最後才再帶出不卑不亢的酸度,果香由此而發,是還可以接受的酸度,後來和店主談起咖啡豆的來源,得知原來此店是今天是用上了Danes的Mocha Gold Blend,怪不得是這味道吧,之後也問問為何會有這個那麼明亮的酸度,按道理這個Blend也是濃而醇的,店主說可能是Double Espresso pull的shot較長所致吧,明顯的與剛才用Ristretto沖的Piccolo Latte有分別,但總體來說,也是一杯有質素有心的咖啡。

後來再和店家細談豆的來源,得知它們沒有自家炒的豆,但也會嚴選來貨,選Danes也是因為其質素,加上店家說Danes的咖啡豆是由澳洲烘焙好後,立即用液態氮降溫,再Espress過來香港的,所以全都保証新鮮;除此之外,它們也有向一位在香港的咖啡達人在觀塘的炒豆場直接入貨,究竟佢講的是否Felix呢?本人真的不知道了,但可見店家有心做好咖啡,也是我們咖啡品嚐者的一件好事。
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