The answer will depend on who you ask but if you ask me, and customers frequently do, a latte, flat white, café au lait, café con leche, etc etc are essentially the same drink in different languages and on different continents: espresso coffee with hot milk.
The difference really comes down to what they are served in and the person making the coffee. At Lantana, flat whites are served in ceramic cups and lattes in tumbler glasses. Both have two shots of coffee but we make the latte on a shorter double shot (a ristretto) which means flat whites are stronger, and, as the name suggests, are made with less foam than a latte. If you want to get a more technical answer from people who know what they are talking about look at toomuchcoffee.
Tim Dunn (ex proprietor of Pushka in Melbourne and now barista in residence at Lantana) shows the difference between Lantana's lattes
and flat whites
Getting a flat white with too much foam disappoints me so much! In London, I have to ask for a 'wet' latte which of course makes no difference- it tends to still have too much foam/taste watery/burnt/awful. The day starts so differently without a good coffee under the belt.
ReplyDeleteBTW finally stopped in on Monday afternoon- so cute and cheerful. So Melbs- will have to come back for some food.
Lantana has spoilt me, but alas it is only a weekly treat when I can get to you. I threw out my Starbucks this morning I just couldn't bear the taste of burnt coffee/ too much milk. I wish my office was closer to lovely Lantana.
ReplyDeleteIn the U.S., a café au lait is actually made with drip (filter) coffee: about half coffee and half foamed milk. The milk in a café au lait is usually textured like a cappuccino rather than a latte or a flat white. It always costs much less than an espresso drink, which makes it sort of a poor man's cappuccino.
ReplyDelete(We also don't have flat whites in the US.)
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ReplyDeleteWe love our coffee so much and have such a hard time finding a good one, that we mostly make it at home.
We're definitely going to come in the next time we're in the area.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not really sure about barista courses but you could try contacting Taylor St Baristas (http://www.taylor-st.com) and see if they offer them, or whether they know who does.
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ReplyDeleteShelagh. please come to my neighborhood in Berkeley CA and open a Lantana, I promise you will be a raving success. Organic food will win hands down, but equally importantly (to me) no one here knows what a flat white is or how to make one. Latte's!! don;t even talk to me - I think many people here latte means scorching hot milk. I am so impressed by your passion and the fruits of it. When I am next in London I will drop in for a real latte.
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