Care for an Espresso Shot Pulled on a $14,000, Locally Made Machine?
You’ll be wanting to check out the new cafe in the Bravern.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 22, 2010 at 01:53PM
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July 30 is opening day for Vovito Caffè and Gelato, a 2,444 square-foot, Italian-style espresso shop in Bellevue’s Bravern shopping center.
A press release announcing its arrival says Vovito will have “two of the region’s three Slayer espresso machines.” But that’s not quite right—Zoka in Kirkland has a Slayer, and tiny Equal Exchange in the Ballard Market has one too. Still, two Slayers! That’s one Slayer for every 1,222 square feet!
Slayer is a Georgetown-based maker of some of the world’s very best espresso machines. The base price for one of these bad boys is 14 grand and there are only about 20 coffeshops on the planet that use them. Their principal virtue is that they allow the baristas to maintain all kids of control. They can tweak the pressure throughout the brewing process and experiment with how that alters flavor and mouthfeel.
Vovito will offer 24 flavors of gelato made on site, plus panini and the like. It will be open at 6:30am on weekdays so that Bravern employees can get perked first thing. They will no doubt welcome Vovito’s arrival.
Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Coffee Buzz, Coffee, Slayer Espresso Machines
We got the press release on the coffee shop this morning.
I mailed back asking ‘Hey, whose beans are they using?’ because, hey, this is Seattle and I had trouble imagining a pr firm not including that information.
The reply I got was ’You’d probably have to ask them.’
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So, do you have any idea whose beans they’re using?
glad to know their PR firm is doing their job… FAIL
Hi John
I called Vovito yesterday. Connoisseur Coffee in California created a custom blend that they’re using in all of their drinks. I couldn’t get them to tell me anything more specific than that.