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EVOCA, 80 Years of Innovating & Counting
History of Gaggia
If we go back to the very beginning of the Gaggia
Milano story, in 1938 Achille Gaggia filed a patent
that revolutionised coffee making and first gave
the world coffee with its crema that nowadays
aficionados know and love the world over. Fast
forward to the 2020s and traditions of the past
die hard – the Gaggia Milano professional coffee
machines of today are born out of a continued
passion for coffee and the desire to innovate.
Take Carat’s Café Bar, for example – an
The Range extremely popular beachfront café in the
Today Gaggia Milano has been completely West Sussex town of Southwick, with
revitalised and adapted for the out of home regular customers including tourists, dog
coffee market that has been burgeoning in walkers and cyclists. As a venue
recent years. Gaggia Milano have continued their respected for its taste and style, it was
long tradition of working closely with cutting edge vital that any new machine added to
designers to ensure that the machines are some Carat’s aesthetic, on top of delivering
of the most stylish on the market; but paying drinks of a quality that would outshine
close attention to the needs of baristas ensures those of the competition.
that Gaggia machines represent both style and
substance. Coffee Shop Style Anywhere
Nowadays, coffee consumers demand a
Complete Control for the Professional coffee-shop style drink, regardless of the
Barista setting. However, not every out of home
The professional range of machines has been location has a barista on hand. These –
conceived to address the needs and challenges seemingly conflicting – demands can now
of many different venues. Take for instance, La be addressed, thanks to La Radiosa,
Reale, a truly spectacular machine that would Gaggia’s first super automatic coffee
look at home in any chic independent coffee machine. Unlike other automatic coffee
shop. Cutting edge technology means that machines, the quality of the milk
temperature stability, taste profiles and coffee preparation on La Radiosa puts the
extraction are all second to none. The optional beverage on a par with many hand
Dynamic Flow Control puts every variable in the crafted drinks.
hands of the barista, so that they can adjust the
profile to suit their palate, putting their own
personal stamp on the drink they serve.
