Coffee Story

A perfect breakfast!

Full cups and empty cups, different designs, and the same very good coffee.

Every morning...

The same enormous croissant...

The same wonderful cappuccino!

Coffee Story in Iasi, Romania!

Coffee story or stories over coffee?

I don't really know the story or history of coffee. I know it's easy to find out but I still prefer it to remain a little mystery to me. I am content with the taste of coffee and stories told over a cup of coffee.

I can say that I have been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember. Since childhood. Because my childhood was a long, long time ago, and it happened in a country in a lot of deprivation, a lot of what today we think is normal to have... we didn't have then! And yet, in a country of many deprivations, we had coffee. No, coffee is not grown in our country, in one end of Europe, but we import coffee. Raw coffee was roasted in grocery stores and, back then, these stores had a pleasant and unmistakable smell. My mother worked in such a shop and coffee was not missing from our home.

Whenever we had guests, the first thing we could offer was coffee and jam. On these occasions, even if I was just a kid, I would steal a sip of the coffee left on the table...

Now things have changed a lot in the more than sixty years that have passed, except for the passion for coffee that has grown and even become an addiction. Fortunately, not the worst addiction, on the contrary, a beneficial one for health. So I read and I hope it's true, not just a marketing issue.

The best coffee is no longer homemade coffee. Specialized coffee shops, which import countless kinds of coffee, are the ideal place not only for drinking coffee but also for socializing and even work, many young people with laptops do some of their work at the coffee shop!

Although it's more expensive to drink coffee in such places than at home, I can't refuse such a treat. Even a breakfast, a small croissant, and a large cappuccino. This is the breakfast I look for especially on holiday.

I have been to many cafés, both in Bucharest, where I live, and in the cities in Romania that I have visited, but also at the seaside, on holidays. I liked the most the café in Iasi, Romania, where I lived for a while, almost a year.

It's called "Coffee Story" and it's in the center of the city, next to the Palace Mall. From my point of view, it is perfect. The kindness and professionalism of the baristas as well as the pleasant and peaceful atmosphere of the cafe. I haven't been there for almost four years but I always think about when I will go there again.