Gardelli Specialty Coffees / Caffeteca

Caffeteca is the flagship café of Rubens Gardelli, who holds the World Coffee Roasting Championship title along with four Italy Coffee Roasting Championship wins — a competition record that shows directly in how the café serves its coffee. Cup service at Caffeteca includes a small container of the ground coffee alongside the brewed cup, letting a customer smell both the dry grounds and the wet aroma as part of the tasting rather than judging on taste alone.

It's a competition-cupping habit brought into a retail setting, walking customers through the same sensory steps a championship judge would use. The presentation detail extends to the surface it's served on: Portuguese pink marble, a specific material choice rather than a generic café counter.

Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, isn't an obvious specialty-coffee capital, which makes Caffeteca's role as the public-facing café of a reigning world roasting champion notable on its own — the roastery's competition credentials aren't abstract here, they're built into the service ritual every cup goes through.