To create an oasis for our guests  where they can spoil themselves for a few moments, where they can forget about the frenzy of everyday life and where they can indulge their taste buds with delicious food, sense of smell with freshly roasted coffee, relax in loungy atmosphere and discover their guilty pleasures along the way.

I adore coffee. I drink as many as seven espressos a day and it always has the same effect. It makes me feel who I am. It opens my mind and makes me forget the meaning of time,  space, and transience.  It brings me right here, right now.  It brings me back to life.  In this moment, I may even forget where I started my journey and where I plan to go.  In this moment, it no longer matters.
The only things that matter are right here and now.  The only things I possess and have ever possessed are here and now….in this room….nowhere else.   In this very moment,  I am experiencing and living the most beautiful moment of my life.  The taste and aroma of the espresso remind me of that.  My starting point no longer exists.  It has become a shadow of events, time and space, which have slowly sunk into the misty depths of the past.  The destination I’m headed to is still somewhere out there in the future, uncertain, or may not even exist. The fruit of my desire is but a projection of my imagination.
Without the espresso, my real life wouldn’t exist today. I would merely be its silent witness, watching it unfold past me.  The past and the future are fiction. Here and now are all I have.   And my espresso…. it is my “present”  Present as both my  “moment in time” and my “gift”.   It is my reminder that being aware of the present moment is a gift of life.  Espresso enriches my life many times every day.  Unless I have one, I am lost.

Igor Arih, Dignano d’Istria, October 2014