Torrefazione Inzaghese

you're on piazza maggiore, the kind of square that still runs on foot traffic and habit rather than tourism, and torrefazione inzaghese sits right in the middle of it at number four. inzago is a small comune east of milan, far enough from the city that people here aren't performing coffee culture for outsiders. they're just drinking it. that's the context you walk into. the locals who come back consistently, and they do come back, aren't doing so out of loyalty to a brand or a fit-out. roasting on-site means the coffee moving through this place is fresher than most of what you'll find in the region, and that gap is real even if you can't always name it. a mid-morning espresso at the piazza is where to start.