‘Melvourni’: Brewing a Modern Twist on Greek Coffee

Hot transverse bun, Freddo espresso. Tsoureki frappe. Classic Greek coffee your way. This is ‘Melvourni‘.

Husband and woman George and Thalia Dardamanis started ‘Melvourni’ 10 years ago. What started disconnected arsenic their tiny hobby has go a palmy Greek java concern that serves beyond the Melbourne community.

An ode to the nostalgia of dipping biscuits successful his mum’s bitter Elliniko, George tells maine ‘Melvourni’s’ ngo is to springiness radical bully prime Greek java with a modern twist.

“There were ne'er galore options for prime Greek-style java successful Australia,” George explains.

That each changed with ‘Melvourni’. “The archetypal happening radical accidental erstwhile they effort our java is, ‘Oh my God, however creaseless is it?’ It’s existent coffee, and you tin sensation the difference.”

“We privation to springiness  people the aforesaid benignant of prime arsenic we would expect successful a specialty roaster.”

He tells maine the endearing communicative astir however Melvourni came astir done the commencement of his firstborn son.

 ”Once you person your archetypal child, you get visitors coming implicit and and we would service them Greek coffee. That’s erstwhile my woman looked astatine maine and she said Surely we tin travel up with a amended Greek java than this. And, I’m like, ohio God, present we go.”

The sanction ‘Melvourni’ came astir erstwhile George and Thalia were driving done their hometown Melbourne and admiring its skyline.

“Thats wherever my woman mentioned the name, and it stuck. We thought it was perfect, due to the fact that we deliberation successful Melbourne we are precise blessed with the champion coffees successful the world.”

George and Thalia Dardamanis.

George names 3 non-negotiables for ‘Melvourni’s’ coffee: organic, specialty grade, and ethically sourced.

With nary pesticides and hailing from nationalist forests, George and Thalia root the Arabica beans from Brazil, person them locally roasted, and traditionally grind the beans utilizing old-style Greek chromatic grinders to get the gorgeous powdery consistency needed successful Greek coffee.

Their scope features 3 iconic coffees – Greek, freddo, and frappe – each disposable successful decaf (because everyone deserves bully coffee).

They besides connection amusive flavours: classic, blistery transverse bun, cinnamon, gingerbread, chocolate, 24K GOLD, and their standout favourite, tsoureki, which surged successful popularity aft Easter past twelvemonth and looks acceptable to bash the aforesaid again this year.

To heighten their beloved flavours, ‘Melvourni’ collaborated with their bully person personage Chef Dezi Madafferi to marque a limited variation cinnamon frappe set.

“ That went truly good for us, and we’re ever expanding connected our flavours”, George said.

‘Melvourni’ doesn’t conscionable merchantability java – they assistance you marque it, too. Their scope of java tools includes accepted brikis successful small, medium, and large, coffee machines, frappe mixers, strainers, and adjacent a beautifully crafted brass java mill for grinding beans to the cleanable fineness.

Looking ahead, George and Thalia anticipation to instrumentality ‘Melvourni’ planetary by exporting their java worldwide. George besides dreams of opening a tiny café to service freshly brewed java and link with the section community.

“We’d emotion to proceed  spreading the connection of Greek coffee. Getting a batch much radical drinking not conscionable successful Australia, but astir the world.”

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