Coffee & Food Pairing Lab
Discover how different food pairings transform your coffee.
What you eat with your coffee can completely change how it tastes enhancing sweetness, softening acidity or revealing entirely new flavour notes. In this hands-on tasting experience, you’ll explore how food and coffee interact on the palate through a series of guided pairings.
You’ll taste thoughtfully selected coffee samples alongside a variety of complementary and contrasting food items and learn how flavour, texture and aroma shift in response. Perfect for anyone looking to turn a coffee break into a fuller sensory experience.
What You'll Learn
How Coffee and Food Interact
Explore how sweet, salty, acidic and fatty foods change the way coffee tastes
Explore Pairings Across Roast Levels or Origins
Taste the difference when pairing across coffees with different roast levels.
Discover Complementary and Contrasting Pairings
Learn the difference between pairing for harmony versus surprise and how each reveals new flavour dimensions.
Learn Basic Pairing Principles
Pick up useful tips to help you explore and enjoy pairings at home.
Understand What You’re Tasting
Build awareness of how coffee’s acidity, body and bitterness evolve when paired with different foods.
Get Inspired to Create Your Own Rituals
Walk away with ideas to transform your home coffee routine into a more complete and intentional moment.
What's Inside
This lab brings flavour into conversation. You’ll taste curated coffees alongside different foods and explore how sweet, salty, rich or fruity flavours change the coffee and your experience of it.
Here’s what you can expect:
Walk away with ideas to transform your home coffee routine into a more complete and intentional moment.
Pairing Theory: Contrast vs Complement
Guided Pairing Tasting
Share your coffee-snack habits and hear about pairing surprises from others
Learn simple principles for pairing food and coffee
Taste coffees alongside a curated mix of sweet, savoury and rich foods
Sensory Mapping & Reflection
Build Your Personal Pairing Preferences
Takeaways & Home Pairing Ideas
Track flavour changes, share your impressions and learn what worked for you
Begin identifying what types of pairings enhance your coffee experience
Leave with a mini pairing guide and new ideas to try on your own