Sliema’s COFFEE&strangers Espresso Bar has been awarded with the ‘Winning Speciality Café in Malta’ award.
Crowned by European Coffee Trip, this award recognises outstanding speciality coffee shops across Europe.
Commenting on this achievement, Founder Deandra Gauci remarked that “not in a million years” would the team have seen this award coming, leaving her speechless and surprised.
“As a Maltese citizen running COFFEE&strangers Espresso Bar, hailing from such a tiny island you would never expect this,” she commented.
Ms Gauci continued that it’s an honour to see the team’s hard work, passion, dedication, efforts, and sleepless nights to deliver high standards and consistency within its service and products come to fruition and put Malta on the map amongst other well-known speciality coffee houses in Europe.
The business owner is a coffee educator, quality coffee grader and coffee science student. In an earlier interview, Ms Gauci shared that she founded the business whilst on a trip to Amsterdam and instantly named it COFFEE&strangers.
“Because through coffee we meet a lot of strangers that today are our business partners or coffee people we network with,” she said.
About the awards
Founded in 2014, by two coffee enthusiasts, European Coffee Trip is an online platform that promotes and explores European coffee culture offering city guides, café reviews, and tutorials, among other content.
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the awards. Voters had the chance to vote for any speciality café listed on European Coffee Trip’s guide, found on its app, from 16th of September to 16th October.
Apart from COFFEE&strangers, the platform features 10 other cafés in Malta:
- Tal-Kafe, Lot Sixty One Coffee Roasters, and Coffee Circus Lisboa in Valletta
- Lot Sixty One Coffee Roasters in St Julian’s
- Finca Velez Coffee House in Sliema
- Coffee Circus in Birzebbuga
- Little Chief in Marsaskala
Main Image:COFFEE&strangers Espresso Bar / Facebook
