Another aspect I will be offering through my blog giving out coffee reviews from different places and possibly their related coffee trademarks they serve. I will be quite blunt and straight to the point. However it will not be a review about the place per se but about the coffee experience, thus I might also comment about the same place more than once with regards to their coffee.
This morning I visited Fontanella Tea Gardens at Mdina. For those who are not familiar with the name, don't get the impression that they specialise in teas only. My first comment here is that their choice of coffees is not quite vast, yet acceptable.
Though they use Lavazza (not really the best choice despite the hype around the name), I would say that whoever prepared my espresso lungo knew well what s/he was doing.
Not bad for a presentation
Firstly, I must say that at Fontanella they did not use proper espresso cups but the cappuccino cups (small ones). However, having ordered a lungo, the presentation was not bad at all. Though the waitress had to pass from outside and up through a flight of stairs to my table, the coffee was of an excellent temperature and presentation was not badly damaged. The taste was OK for a Lavazza. I enjoyed it.
I would like to pass a further comment here as at Fontanella I was positively impressed. It is one of the very few coffee serving places in Malta that serve water with an espresso. Good job Fontanella! Kudos to that!!
Stay tuned! In the mean time, keep spreading the love for the BEAN!