News articles tagged with 'Synesso'
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From cup to origin — part 1
Five Senses’ own Ben Bicknell has been on an epic adventure from the cafes of Montreal, to the rigorous challenges of a week’s training at Coffee Lab International and the exhilaration of judging at the World Barista Championships in Atlanta. Here’s a peek at his adventures, couched in an inimitable Ben-style …
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Synesso Hydra is here
The guys at Synesso are a meticulous bunch. Their machines have long been touted as the best in the business — and not just by the good folk at Five Senses! The Synesso is the machine of choice at the leading espresso bars across the globe.
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Small Business and General Business tax break
Have you always dreamed that your dinosaur of an espresso machine would one day turn into a Synesso? Well, it may be the time to capitalise on the Government’s tax break incentive for capital purchases. As part of the last Federal budget, the Commonwealth Government announced a special Small Business and General Business tax break.
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All hail coffee at Brownhaus Espresso
It’s hard not to love a place that goes by the motto “all hail coffee”. Especially when they back it up with a two group Synesso and a set of bathroom scales underneath the grinder to ensure that their tamping is right on the money, every time. Brownhaus Espresso in Subiaco is that place.
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Engineering skills
Yes, the rumours are all true … Five Senses’ engineer extraordinaire, Richard Muhl, is attempting to combine a Synesso Cyncra group head and boilers with an Isomac to produce the most impressive hybrid domestic espresso machine in the world.
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Proud Mary rocks the streets of Collingwood
Roll back the clock to 2006 and Nolan Hirte was running a successful café and had won the WA Barista Championship. He had made a big impression at the national barista finals in Adelaide and any café he was involved with in Perth seemed assured of success. The logical thing would have been to open his own café and watch the money roll in.
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Green Tambourine Plays a Sweet Tune
Start with a veteran café operator, add a classic bluestone building, sprinkle in a beautiful park setting and top it all off with Five Senses Coffee. What do you get? A recipe for a venue with the potential to become an iconic coffee hub.
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Fez Offers Cultural Pizazz
Known as one of Morocco’s four “imperial cities,” Fez is said to be the cultural capital of Africa’s most north eastern coastal country. Only a few short kilometres away in Mt. Lawley, WA, Fez cafe offers its patrons a delicate balance of land far away meets soulful corner cafe.
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Some like it hot
As a professional barista, you will have well and truly mastered the basics of producing great espresso. You’re probably itching to take on a new challenge and take your coffee to even more sublime heights.
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Back in Time at Penny Farthing
Walking through the door of Penny Farthing is like stepping back in time: rustic salvaged furniture, a turntable playing all the best hits from yesteryear, and of course, the brothers in arms behind the Synesso Hydra, Trevor and Steve.
Taking the name Penny Farthing from a late great uncle who raced penny farthing bicycles in England, both Steve and Trevor, with their suspenders, side burns and a handle bar moustache, would look at home on the high perched seat of one of the big wheeled bicycles.
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Hush — it's no secret!
There’s something in the air besides sea breeze in Fremantle. Upon an unscientific observation, there seems to be an above average amount of smiles bellowing in and around Hush Espresso on Market Street. Which therein begs a more curious question: why do the folks nestled in this area appear to be so darn happy?
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A New Pillar of the Community
Five Senses is proud to call Pillar of Salt one of our latest success stories. As Melbourne foodie website Broadsheet noted, “Pillar of Salt has already found a sense of familiarity; a relaxed, friendly atmosphere that makes you want to be a regular.” Brothers Matt and Kael are already enjoying some serious buzz in the blogosphere, but don’t have much time to read what’s being written as their new business is so busy.
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Rosslyn Opens in Melbourne
The fit out of our new training centre has been anything but kept quiet. With whispers, rumors and some sneaky leaked photos floating around, it’s time to introduce the world to Rosslyn officially…
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Dropping In to Third Wave Cafe
Port Melbourne is one of those strange Melbourne suburbs which café owners seem to have over looked for many years when hunting for that perfect location to produce amazing coffee. However it now seems to be growing into one of Melbourne’s hotspots for your daily caffeine hit.
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The New Generation of Synesso
The Synesso brand will soon reveal its new generation of espresso machines to the Australian market. As the May release date draws near, it seemes appropriate to not only take a look at how Synesso has transcended space and time to become the piece of technological art it is today, but also to spend a few minutes discussing some of the hot new features built into the brand’s new generation of machines.
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City Soul at Harry Joy’s Kitchen
Deep in Melbourne’s city laneways, nestled between high rise buildings, delicious aromas rise from Harry Joy’s Soul Kitchen. For those who are searching for the real Melbourne experience of city café life, you need look no further.
While Harry Joy’s stakes a claim in our city’s vibrant café scene, it also has a new edge in both its food and design. Owner Francis Placentino is already a successful café operator, and has poured his passion into creating this stylish, vintage-influenced café space. -
Sea Circus Charm
My first contact with the Sea Circus crew was a quick email with the message “to ring Charlie about a cafe in Bali.” The mention of Bali quickly piqued my interest, and I jumped on the phone. Expecting a male voice on the end of the line, I was a little surprised when Charlie actually turned out to be Charlotte! Originally from the UK, Charlie (think a curly-haired Kate Winslet) found her way to Bali via Australia, where she developed a passion for coffee after spending some time with our friends Nolan Hirte and the Proud Mary crew. Along with her business partner Josh Herdman (Hugh Jackman crossed with Chesty Bonds), Charlie decided that the Seminyak scene had an opening for an intimate, fun venue and the long, testing gestation of Sea Circus began!
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Why You Need a Barista Course
There tend to be two types of people in this world – those who openly admit that they could benefit from the excitement and vigour of a three and a half hour barista course, and of course, those who cannot. If you’ve identified with the first group, that’s great! Don’t waste your energy on another bad coffee; call your friendly Australian Barista Academy immediately for a list of the next available classes. However, if you’re thinking to yourself right now, “I already know how to make a damn good coffee at home,” then this article, my friend, is directed at you.
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Unexpected Eats at Gypsey & Musquito
Finally, a café in the heart of the Bridge Road shopping district, that offers more than just your standard Bridge Road dishes. Owners Kirrily Stewart and Anna Ingle want to showcase an all-Australian menu using all-Australian produce at their first café venture, Gypsey & Musquito. Using Australian ingredients as much as possible in most of her cooking, Anna wants to bring the concept of using only local produce back into minds and the hearts of the Melbourne public.
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Richard Chats to Mark Barnett from Synesso
Recently at the SCAA conference in Houston, Texas, Richard Muhl caught up with Mark Barnett, founder of Synesso, to talk about the birth of Synesso and the Next Generation Machine.
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A Great Plan Comes Together at Bench Espresso
Long time friend of Five Senses, Vanessa Moore, has realised her dream of building her very own cafe from the ground up and we couldn’t be more excited. As Ness is a perfectionist by nature, Bench is the result of lots of planning, attention to detail, experience and hard work. It’s undoubtedly a destination for all coffee lovers, as well as the perfect spot for the lucky ones working just east of the city.
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New Baby Arrives at Epic Espresso
Some might think it is strange to be so excited about the arrival of a new coffee machine – it’s not as if we didn’t already have two great Synessos which have been very loyal and hard working. But when Five Senses suggested that we might want to have a play on the next generation Synesso Hydra — well, the love affair began.
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Viva Italia at Balmain!
People find themselves in the hospitality industry for a variety of reasons. Many love the flexibility that it gives, others like the social aspect. It’s also not uncommon to find that people support themselves and their other passions with a bar or cafe job. This was true of Zach, the proud new owner of Balmain — until he visited Italy.
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