Dark Horse Coffee Automat in Toronto, Designed by Mjölk
Our friend John Baker and his wife Juli Baker are the proprietors of Mjölk in Toronto, a single of the world’s finest interiors shop. So when they emailed us a pair of months ago to let us know about a new automatic espresso kiosk they’ve developed for Toronto-primarily based roasters and store Dark Horse Espresso, we were curious to master extra.
“It was a truly intriguing quick for us, as we’ve under no circumstances seasoned a thoroughly automatic contactless coffee system in advance of,” John states. “We started out to get a minimal nostalgic for some of our favourite old coffee shops—places like Cafe Valand in Sweden and Moka Cafe in Iceland. We adore these heat and nostalgic areas that never ever close and have a crew of acquainted regulars. So we started contemplating about how we could play with this nostalgia when also introducing the robotic engineering from RC Coffee.
“We developed a type of cafe diorama to build a playful fictional heritage for the Darkish Horse manufacturer, with its origins as a 1950-60s cafe, that holds a distinctive put in the coronary heart of Yorkville but is extensively neglected by the rest of the city. Our objective was for folks to stroll by the cafe at night time with the lights in the window glowing and prevent for a instant to appear inside of, then know that this isn’t a true coffee shop but an automatic espresso kiosk. I feel just having the coffee kiosk by alone as an ATM may possibly just vanish on a occupied road in downtown Toronto, so the diorama is genuinely important and complete of authentic products that attempt to capture the spirit and high-quality of the coffee. We enjoy the Nordic spirit for innovation, and even while this is a cheeky retro aesthetic, it lends by itself to the optimism of the technologies identified at the coffee kiosk.”
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For far more Mjölk, see:
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A Scandinavian-Inspired Kitchen with Hints of Japan