Local barista Andrew Feldon from Hawthorne Cafe took second place in a Restaurant Association’s initial Barista Smackdown foe hold this week.
In a initial eventuality of a kind hold in Auckland, baristas competed head-to-head in a interactive foe where they had 90 seconds to make a incidentally comparison coffee and benefaction a decoction to a row of attention experts judging a event.
Mr Feldon battled his approach by 8 rounds to make a tip 3 yesterday. Masako Yamamoto was a winner, with Wayne Moreno entrance in third. The Barista Smackdown was organized by a Restaurant Association and was hold during Finefood New Zealand. Marisa Bidois, CEO of a Restaurant Association says a proclivity for organising events like these is to prominence attention talent.
This eventuality was sponsored by Tiger Coffee, Meadow Fresh and Incafe.