Eastbourne · East Sussex · Since 1993
Hands-on barista courses at our Eastbourne showroom, or at your bar on your own machine — for cafe teams, new openings and home baristas. Every session is run by Dom, our Head of Coffee, inside a business that installs and services commercial coffee machines across Sussex. You learn on kit that is set up properly, from someone who knows why it matters.
Start from what you can already do. It is the same whether you run a cafe or a machine in your kitchen.
Every session is private, for up to four people. Foundation and Latte Art are priced for one person, then +£20 +VAT for each extra person; the other courses are one price for up to four. Either way you are on the machine, not watching someone else use it.
New to coffee, or self-taught and want the gaps filled in
Essential coffee knowledge, the perfect espresso, grinding and dosing, steaming milk and building the core menu.
3 HOURS · MAX 4 · SHOWROOM
£160 +VAT · £192 inc
Covers one person · then +£20 +VAT per extra person, up to 4
Anyone whose hearts keep coming out as blobs
A latte art course that starts where it actually goes wrong: milk texture. Then the three core pours — heart, tulip, rosetta — until they are repeatable.
3 HOURS · MAX 4 · SHOWROOM
£160 +VAT · £192 inc
Covers one person · then +£20 +VAT per extra person, up to 4
Working baristas, and home baristas past the basics
Extraction theory, dialling in across different beans, recipe and ratio, palate work and the standards that separate good from consistent.
3 HOURS · MAX 4 · SHOWROOM
£275 +VAT · £330 inc
One price for up to 4 people
Most complete
Opening up, or training a new hire from scratch
Foundation and Advanced in one longer session — the full picture from bean to finished menu, in a single visit.
3.5 HOURS · MAX 4 · SHOWROOM
£325 +VAT · £390 inc
One price for up to 4 people
Onsite barista training on your own machine, your own grinder, your own beans — which is the setup your team has to get right every morning.
New cafes, and teams that need bringing up to standard
The Foundation material delivered at your bar, plus honest advice on your grind settings, your workflow and the kit you are running.
3 HOURS · MAX 4 · YOUR SITE
£275 +VAT · £330 inc
One price for up to 4 people, plus any travel
Teams who can pour, but not consistently
Latte art at your own steam wand. Wand pressure and jug shape change everything, so learning it on your own machine is the point.
2.5 HOURS · MAX 4 · YOUR SITE
£225 +VAT · £270 inc
One price for up to 4 people, plus any travel
Travel is included within 30 miles of our Eastbourne showroom, which covers Bexhill, Hastings, Lewes, Brighton, Haywards Heath and Tunbridge Wells. From 30 to 60 miles it is £45 +VAT — Horsham, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Canterbury, Folkestone and south London. From 60 to 90 miles it is £95 +VAT. Distance is measured in a straight line from BN23 6QA: enter your postcode when you book and it is quoted exactly before you pay. Beyond 90 miles, get in touch and we will arrange it.
Technical skill and palate together. Every course is hands-on — you spend the session making coffee, not watching someone else make it.
ESPRESSO
MILK & MENU
LOOKING AFTER IT
Included: course notes to take away, and a discount on anything you buy from our barista kit and coffee bean ranges after the session. On Foundation, Advanced, Beginner to Barista and onsite barista training you also choose a bag of coffee to take home.
SINCE 1993
We install, service and repair commercial coffee machines across the South East. The training comes from thirty years of seeing what actually goes wrong behind the bar.
MAX 4
You spend the session on the machine. A barista school that fills a room with twenty people looks better in photographs and teaches far less.
TAUGHT BY DOM
Every course is run by Dom, our Head of Coffee, who has worked behind the counter as well as on the engineering side. Sessions get tailored on the day to what you can already do.
NO SALES PITCH
If your grinder is the problem, we will say so. There is no obligation to buy anything from us, and the training stands on its own.
Every session is private, for up to four people. Foundation and Latte Art are priced for one person, then +£20 +VAT (£24 inc VAT) for each extra person, so four people on Foundation is £220 +VAT. Advanced, Beginner to Barista and both onsite courses are one price for up to four. The booking page shows the total as you choose how many are coming.
No. Barista Skills — Foundation and Beginner to Barista assume you have never used an espresso machine. If you already work behind a bar, or have been making espresso at home for a while, Advanced or Latte Art will suit you better.
Yes. The showroom courses are the same session whoever books them, and plenty of what goes wrong on a home machine is the same thing that goes wrong on a commercial one: grind, dose, milk texture. Prices are shown plus VAT and including VAT, and the booking page totals both before you pay.
Open the course, pick a weekday from the calendar, say how many of you are coming and pay online. We run training Monday to Friday. For onsite courses you also enter your postcode, and any travel charge is quoted before you pay.
Yes. An ADS e-gift card (£25 to £500) can be spent on any course, and whoever you give it to picks their own date when they book. Every session takes up to four people, so one gift can be a session for two, or for a group of friends.
At our showroom in Eastbourne, East Sussex — Unit 28 Hawthorn Road, BN23 6QA. It is a straightforward drive from Bexhill, Hastings, Lewes and Brighton. If travelling does not suit, our onsite courses come to you instead.
At the showroom you train on the same commercial espresso machines and grinders we sell and service, so the skills transfer straight to a working bar. On an onsite course you train on your own machine instead, which is the setup that actually matters.
Our courses are practical training rather than an accredited qualification. What you leave with is the ability to run a bar properly, which is what employers and customers actually notice.
Yes. Alongside training we install and commission commercial machines, dial the grinder in and set the water filtration up correctly. Call 0800 442299 and ask about a set-up visit.
Tell us what you or your team can already do and we will point you at the right one — or tell you that you do not need us yet.
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