Coffee Bar Builds

Coffee-bar builds with the number set first.

Complete coffee-bar builds on a defined budget.

A hand tips a black gooseneck kettle over a ceramic pour-over cone, a thin stream of water landing on the grounds.

Buying Guide

A Gooseneck Kettle and the Kettle Already in the Kitchen

A gooseneck spout controls how fast and where water lands on coffee. Which brewers reward that, which do not care, and what the one gooseneck on this record states about itself.

A Gooseneck Kettle and the Kettle Already in the Kitchen

A coffee corner on a kitchen island in warm oak: a plain machine and a hand grinder with a crank handle, one cup and a folded cloth, a clean back wall with no socket anywhere, morning sun across the counter

Budget Build

Building a Coffee Bar: Where the Money Goes First

The order to spend a starter coffee bar budget in: the grinder first, a modest machine under it, a real share for the scale, and the kettle deferred to the next purchase.

Building a Coffee Bar: Where the Money Goes First