A café is a type of restaurant that serves coffee and snacks. This outlet is also known as coffeehouse, coffee shop or tea shop and can also be part of hotels and restaurants like best western in Melbourne . A café generally shares the characteristics of bar and a restaurant, but quite different from cafeteria. In many countries cafes resemble restaurants offering large meals and few even sell beverages like alcohol.
Most cafes serve different type of coffees. The most common types of coffees served at café are
Expresso: Expresso is the simplest coffee based drink that is very strong. It is made by forcing small amount of hot water through finely ground coffee beans. This type of coffee is more concentrated and thicker.
Latte: A latte is a coffee with more milk than expresso. Milk foam is added to give it additional taste.
Cappuccino: this coffee is a intermediate between expresso and latte. IT has more milk than expresso but less than latte.
Macchiato: In this variety, the steam milk is added first, to which expresso and milk foam is added. This creates a layered effect, which has more milk than cappuccino and generally served in a tall transparent glass.
Mocha: It is a combination of hot chocolate and coffee. This type of coffee is popular among chocolate lovers.
If you are a coffee lover, you can visit any café to enjoy therange of coffe drinks that are served.
