Boncafé's Être Bon Gallery and Academy turns one!
17 February 2010, Singapore...Être Bon Gallery and Academy, Boncafé’s coffee gallery and training facility, turned one on 11 February 2010. A year on from its launch and opening of doors to welcome coffee aficionados and barista potentials, Être Bon Gallery and Academy has gone through an exciting and eventful year of activities and events, bringing it to its very first milestone in 2010.
"Être Bon Gallery and Academy was a project that the Boncafé team was very excited to work on and bring to completion. It was and is our hope to bring the Coffee Journey story to all who love coffee, as well as to help those who want to become skilled coffee baristas, to achieve their dream, it’s all about the art of being good" said Mr Christian W. Huber, Managing Director of Boncafé International.
In the past year, Être Bon Gallery and Academy has done exactly that – training Boncafé customers’ staff and team members on coffee making, barista skills, as well as having people sign up for Barista Courses and Coffee Journey Tours. Être Bon was also the venue of many lunch gatherings and afternoon coffee sessions with people who love coffee, making it a very busy and eventful year for this baby!
A series of activities and events took place last week to commemorate and celebrate Être Bon Gallery and Academy’s very first birthday. “We signed an MOU with ITE (Institute of Technical Education) on the partnership and collaboration between ITE and Boncafé to design and make available a coffee knowledge and skills programme at ITE’s new regional hub campus later in 2010 on 9 Feb; we also invited our neighbours in Pandan Loop in for a cup of gourmet coffee on 10 Feb; and on the actual birthday, 11 February, we celebrated with our own Boncafé staff members with a lunch, as well as have invited guests and graduates of Être Bon Gallery and Academy attend a birthday party in the afternoon” explains Mr Huber.
Moving on from its birthday, Être Bon Gallery and Academy hopes to have more coffee lovers and barista potentials come through its doors in 2010, with ongoing Barista Courses, Tours and other new programmes added on to cater to coffee lovers’ needs.
One of the offerings to coffee aficionados is the Roast on Demand programme which allows one to call Boncafé and order a quantity of premium single origin coffee beans from all the best coffee-producing regions of the world to be freshly roasted and packed to go. These would include coffees like Hawaii Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain, Brazil Santos, Ethiopia Harrar etc. which once ready, can be collected after roasting and enjoyed in its freshest state – coffee aficionados will be in coffee heaven! Please see the attached price list and order form for more details.
For any enquiries on the Roast on Demand service, Barista Courses or the Coffee Journey Tour, please call: 6776 2216 between 8am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
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