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It's been written that the Khan Market is the "costliest retail location in the country" (and 24th globally), but it honestly looks like a Sunnyvale strip mall in disrepair. But as with a lot of India, its big rupee rents are invested in nicer interiors and the area's inexpensive labor supply rather than exterior paint jobs. This café, like many other storefronts, affords a private security detail to keep out the riff raff. Barista Crème, unlike the "vanilla" Barista Coffee shops, represent Barista Coffee's luxury brand: single origin and estate coffees in a "premium lounge" format. This location in specific is also known as the "Khan Market Crème". They use two-group La Cimbali M22 Plus machines on two different floors (floors 1 & 2 of the building, or 2 & 3 in U.S. terms). A very thin layer of medium/light brown crema served in preheated Barista Coffee fine porcelain logo cups. It has an astringent smoky tobacco and deep herbal notes (as the French would call it: "tight"). So fancy, even 1 liter bottles of water are complimentary. But a mere Rs. 65 ($1.65).
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