Slayer Custom – Portola Coffee
This video is showing the most recent customizations made to a Slayer 2 group for Portola Coffee in Costa Mesa, California.
We were contacted by Jeff, the owner of Portola, about a new cafe he was building. He had recently purchased a vintage LSM lever machine with hand hammered copper panels and wanted his Slayer to have a similar feel. After seeing images of the lever machine as well as artists renderings of Jeff’s new bar we knew what we needed to do. Borrowing the shape of the tiles on Jeff’s bar, we customized the back panel of his machine – then had them copper plated – then antiqued the copper to have a similar feel to his old lever.
We also designed a new cup rack for Jeff. We wanted to add to Slayer’s already iconic look but wanted the design to have a light and elegant appearance. We came up with the flowing lines and arched back and determined Peruvian walnut was the perfect way to integrate the new cup rack with the existing design of the machine. Stainless steel is inset into the walnut to provide the strength necessary to allow the cup rack to be lifted from the machine when its full of ceramic cups and the two stainless rails hold the cups in place.
We had a great time on this design and fabrication and we’d encourage anyone in the Costa Mesa area to stop into the new cafe called Theorem and see this beautiful creation in person.
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That custom “Slayer” is a thing of beauty. Truly.
So I’ve been following Slayer’s progress on this blog since before you started selling machines (with great interesting as a coffee-nerd). A few years back I lamented on twitter to you and another (as @caldwa) that I had yet to have an espresso from a Slayer (or Strada) that pushed the envelope of coffee quality and was better than anything I’d had from non-pressure profiling machines. Well, in the past 6 months, Portola has become my favorite cafe (sadly 90min from my house) and I’ve been extremely impressed with their espresso – so much that I’d say they are at the top of the game in terms of espresso preparation of any specialty coffee roaster/cafes today, and I’m sure that’s because they have a Slayer and know how to use it. So, this is to say, I’ve been convinced :)
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