Thursday 12 January 2012

Our Slayer Espresso

Our Slayer Espresso machine

If you follow our Facebook or Twitter, you might have heard us banging on about our Slayer Espresso machine. No, it’s not coffee aimed at metalheads, but rather one of the rarest and most customisable coffee machines in the world.

The Slayer has a lot of features that make it, in our opinion, among the finest coffee machines around. For one, it’s a beautiful piece of design, with low lines, smooth dark wood paddles and a polished stainless steel body. Take a closer look next time you’re at Goldilocks and you’ll see that it’s one impressive-looking apparatus.

The real thing that makes the Slayer so powerful, however, is its ability to allow absolute control of pressure and temperature. It gives our baristas the capacity to change the brew pressure at various points in the coffee-making process – commonly referred to as ‘pressure profiling’. This means our baristas can finetune every coffee shot to highlight the particular flavour characteristics present in the roast. It’s a real treat for any barista to play with pressure in this way as it allows total control over the machine, whether they want to amp the machine up to 8 or 9 bars of pressure for an espresso blend, or tease out the delicate flavours of a single origin roast with a low 3 to 4 bars of pressure.

Slayer machines are made by a small company in Seattle and we're proud to have one in our venue. To learn more about how this amazing machine works, come and speak with our friendly staff, who love a good chat about all things coffee!

Monday 9 January 2012

The fit out at Goldilocks Cafe

Our colourful wall mural by Rival Revolution 


Our new Slayer Espresso machine




Paul Mathis has been an avid collector of vintage and antique furniture and homewares for many years. He also has a strong environmental concern and it is these two personal loves that have been realised in his design of the interior for Goldilocks Cafe (adjoining to Firechief Pizzeria).

A curated "rummage" through his warehouse treasure trove of wares now adorns the interior and exterior walls, ceilings and other fixtures at Goldilocks.

With these two venues part of a family of six Paul is opening in the late part of 2011/early 2012, each one has inherited family traits - courtesy of recycled materials salvaged during the builds now common to each.  We will leave it to you to work out what these are.  You may also want to visit Henry and the Fox, and the soon to be launched blogs for Akachochin and The Sharing House - both at South Wharf Promenade, Melbourne's new culinary hub.


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