Café con leche
Howdy!
Lately, walking through the cold to class and fighting cabin fever, I really miss being able to walk down the street from my little apartment in Ronda for a cup of café con leche. This "coffee with milk" is the most common form of coffee where I lived in southern Spain. It is about half hot milk and half coffee, and usually quite inexpensive.
Daver in Ronda, Málaga, Spain
In the morning, a typical breakfast of toast with olive oil and tomato puree and a cup of coffee usually cost me about 1,80€, or about $2.25 in those days. A coffee on its own was usually about 1€. At Daver, though, I usually got a pastry or chocolate with coffee, increasing the price and my waistline slightly.
Granier
The Granier café is at the corner by the town's main plaza. The coffee here was a little more expensive, but came with some amazing people watching. An angled corner window offers a great view of the intersection and the plaza.
Dver café con leche in all its glory
In the end, I frequented Daver so much that the staff knew me by name. They still probably would, if I had a way back there! On this occasion, they sprinkled a little cinnamon on top of my coffee which, while sounding odd, was very good.
If you're headed to Spain any time soon, there are other milk-to-coffee ratios. Café solo or Café de máquina will be just a shot of espresso. Café con leche is about 50% milk, and nube is about 80% milk, with a little coffee. There are some other ratios, but these are a good place to start.
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@fotosdenada
Great photos! Makes me want one, and I always get a sprinkle of cinnamon too!
Thanks! I took lots of coffee photos in Spain lol
Sounds like a latte....regardless, I love coffee with steamed milk whether it's espresso or coffee coffee. :) The toast with olive oil and tomato puree sounds delicious, and healthy for that matter. I'm going to look up how to make this - it's probably as simple as it sounds but I like to know if I am missing out on another flavor.
Sounds like you are missing Spain @fotosdenada.
Usually, for breakfast I had a mollete, basically a round piece of toast, with Spanish olive oil and tomato puree. A lot of people would sprinkle a little salt on top, and a couple times I had a little fresh cheese on top. A delicious variation was when they had salmorejo (sort of like a thick gizpacho) to put on top.
I've never been a coffee fan. I do think it can be such a pretty drink though. The last picture looks very appetizing. I love finding a nice little restaurant to frequent. For a while our go-to restaurant was a quaint German restaurant here in TN. We went so often the staff remembered us. That's always nice.
Having a place where they know you is very nice. It was sad visiting my favorite pastry shop when I had to go back to the USA. Part of what I liked about coffee in Spain is that it's social. "Coffee to go" isn't really a thing where I was. If you want coffee, you sit down in a café and drink it, chat with a friend, watch people go by, do a sudoku, whatever. :-)
Cafe con leche is good, but I do prefer the Italian version Latte Machiatto, where it is around 70% steamed warm milk combined with an expresso.
Things are a little different in Spain, but that would be more like a "nube." I liked the 50/50 mix, for the most part. Straight-up espresso is way too rough, though!
I am not a coffee drinker...at all. I don't like the flavor and I really don't like hot drinks (so no apple cider or hot chocolate either). This looks pretty tasty and thanks for the education about what each coffee includes. Looks like a great place!!
Well, you would probably like the fresh orange juice they have in the same bars. I occasionally got that with breakfast, although it was more expensive. It was kind of fun to watch the auto orange slicy-juicy machine some of the bars had.
I like coffee, do you also like coffee?
But of course! :-)