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| - Coffee geeks of Las Vegas, consider this your new home.
After living overseas for 10 years, my biggest gripe with Las Vegas is that there is no decent espresso and no real coffee enthusiasts. Sunrise coffee is delish and Sambalatte will do in a pinch, but after years in Brazil and Dubai I'm more accustomed to baristas and owners that seriously geek out over their coffee. You know, the ones who drone on and on about how their beans are cultivated, harvested, transported, roasted. . .their best preparations, etc. while your mouth is watering just watching them prepare your coffee. The REAL coffee geeks usually share a passion and border-line obsession with coffee, rather than factoids that the owners made them memorize before becoming a barista.
PublicUs is all that, and a bag of chips.
The barista (Cole I think is his name?) made a stellar cappuccino. And as the NUMBER TWO BARISTA IN THE NATION why wouldn't he? That's right, he apparently placed second in the nation. This should be advertised on the website, btw! The espresso machine is a work of art. He timed his shots. His latte art was impeccable. The coffee tasted divine and wasn't a BOWL of cappuccino like they give you at chain coffee places. The cappuccino was accompanied by the most delicious, fresh biscotti (also used in their affogato).
The only reason this place gets four stars is because, as other reviewers noted, the rest of the staff seemed a bit clueless. Cole greeted us upon entry and was able to answer questions about the food and the coffee in detail. The rest of the staff were very nice, yet seemed like they'd had one too many hits of medicinal marijuana. They didn't seem to have much of an opinion about the food or much knowledge about the bags of beans they sell. In fact, I hardly noticed they were there at all.
All in all, a great addition to the Vegas coffee scene.
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