Coffee Bar Basics

The smallest setup that still makes a real cup.

Coffee bars built from as few objects as possible, and what each one has to do to earn its place.

A slim brushed steel hand grinder with a wooden crank knob, a matt black gooseneck kettle and a white ceramic pour-over cone on a glass server stand in a short row on a pale birch counter in front of a plain soft white wall, morning light from the left.

Budget Build

A Small Coffee Bar: What a Starter Budget Buys First and What It Does Not

What a small starter budget reaches on our price ranges, role by role: the brewer and the storage it fills, the burr grinder it cannot, and what a band can never settle.

A Small Coffee Bar: What a Starter Budget Buys First and What It Does Not