Nice start to the day: coffee with fizz

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the recipe for coffee with fizz.

A fresh, cooling summer coffee: tasty, trendy, and easy to make yourself with help from the experts.
A summer so hot that the sparrows fall from the roof doesn't mean you have to go a day without caffeine. And so the question arises: how do we get our fix without total overheating from a pot of hot coffee?

Forget the whipped cream frappuccino
Fortunately, there are all these clever baristas who have long figured out how to combine cooling with a good coffee buzz, and it doesn't necessarily lie in a super sweet whipped cream frappuccino.

Espresso tonic
Enter: the espresso tonic, or the coffee tonic (because the ladies and gentlemen of the coffee police do make a distinction). Sanne Westphal, Head of Bar at Bocca Coffee, says that the two ingredients (along with lots of ice cubes) complement each other with their fruity, fresh tones, especially if the coffee used is a naturally sweet Ethiopian. “Because filter coffee is softer than espresso, it creates a good balance with the bitterness of tonic. We now serve it with a sprig of rosemary, which matches the spiciness that tonic also has.‘

Tasty, refreshing, and you’ll impress with it because hey, with this drink you are completely in the know. You drink what Scandinavian and American coffee hipsters drink when it’s actually too hot to drag yourself to a coffee bar.

Recipe for the home barista
Sure, you can order your coffee tonic perfectly executed (at Bocca Coffee for example), but a little home barista like you can also make it at home. And because sharing is caring , here (at the bottom of their page) is the coffee tonic recipe from Bocca.