Comments on: Cafe Review – Bar Italia

By: wonderchunder

wonderchunder — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:06:48 +0000

Shame,always fancied trying this place especially since digging out my old Pulp albums recently. I’ll give it a go and see if they’ve upped their game since the review.

By: blanco

blanco — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:19:20 +0000

jim:

i guess i meant that it seems like something you’d see in a movie: rocky balboa walks into a gym in his later years to see an old friend. some young punk in the ring drops his mouthpiece and shouts, “hey old fart, pick that up for me and wash it off, will ya?” it drips of irony.

of course we’re all just people. my point was that you were treated rudely. you mentioned you got the vibe that they felt you were ‘in the way’ when the reality is that you could show them a way or two if only they had gotten off their high horse and been a touch more friendly.

anyways, hope you’re having a grand day.

By: espressoSquirrel

espressoSquirrel — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:14:22 +0000

i don’t usually bother with bar italia unless everywhere else is closed, you cant get coffee at 1am anywhere else.

but i have a friend that goes there because they are so grumpy, she thinks its funny that that they insult all the customers..

By: jim

jim — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:26:53 +0000

blanco – I am not quite sure what you mean by that.
Surely you want a barista to make you feel welcome, whoever you are. I don’t want to approach cafes with an attitude of “oo, I am such an amazing barista, you had better impress me”. After all – I am just one of the unwashed masses and should never be treated any different.

By: blanco

blanco — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:49:04 +0000

jim, don’t you love the delicious irony of it all? you can pull shots blind that are better than theirs, and yet you get the treatment as though you’re simply one of the bourgeoisie, the hoi polloi, the unwashed masses. i get a real kick out of that.

By: Paragon

Paragon — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:18:18 +0000

…same experience pretty much….not welcomed… felt like being robbed really, because the macchiato wasn’t great at all…. :( ….are they living on their history?

..haven’t been back there for over half a year… don’t feel like going too :(

..in Vergano I was only once….but I haven’t been back really….I can see the beautiful machine via ‘window-shopping’ too……