I recently entered Crible Café near the Jardin des Plantes to purchase a bag of roasted coffee beans and to drink an espresso.
Samah was at the counter preparing beverages. She produced an espresso made from Natural Red Bourbon beans from the El Sunzita farm in El Salvador.
I sat at the bench next to the window and sipped the coffee, trying to determine what flavors I could detect. Samah said that one of the notes was apple. I thought that I could detect that.
The label on the hopper of the coffee grinder indicates that Gala apple, fresh hazelnut, and red grape notes are predominant. Later, while doing some research on the Internet, I learned that prune is also noted as a flavor.
The café is tiny, but its small size did not discourage customers from stopping by for coffee. Cappuccino seemed to be the preferred beverage.
I purchased a 250g bag of Natural Red Bourbon roasted beans, took it home, and prepared an espresso with my 9Barista stove-top espresso machine. The quality of the espresso that I produced was much like the espresso that I tasted at Crible. I later determined that the most predominant note was prune.
Samah told me that the beans are roasted at a coffee roasting facility located near place de la Bastille.
Crible
75, rue Buffon
75005 Paris
