Speciality coffee and chocolate take centre stage at festival
Gare Maritime in Brussels is hosting the capital’s first festival for speciality coffee and chocolate on Saturday and Sunday. The Brussels Coffee Show programme includes workshops, demonstrations and tastings, as well as competitions between Belgium’s best baristas.
“Coffee, especially filter coffee, has seen a renewed interest in recent years, fuelled by a search for authenticity and naturalness,” the organisers say. The event in Brussels follows previous editions in Amsterdam, Milan and Paris.
Speciality coffee is fully traceable, from the cooperative or farm where it is grown in its country of origin to the producer. Bean-to-bar chocolate involves a similar business model, where the chocolate maker controls the entire production process, from buying the cocoa beans to creating the product sold to the customer.
“Speciality coffee is a fast-growing market and our festival is in line with the new trend of coffee houses blossoming all over Belgium,” the organisers say.
The platforms of Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis in the north of Brussels welcomed the first goods trains from 1910 onwards, which probably carried bags of coffee from all over the world. The city’s first coffee roasters set up shop nearby.
© PHOTO BRUSSELS COFFEE SHOW
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