La Marzocco finds its Sydney rhythm

At La Marzocco Sydney, my flat white arrived from something that looked, at first, like a very elegant beer tap. The espresso machine itself was nowhere to be seen, hidden below the counter as part of Modbar, La Marzocco’s under-bench coffee system. It is a neat trick: the theatre of coffee reduced to a few precise gestures, with the bulky machinery doing its work out of sight.That ethos of performance with restraint runs through the whole space. Walking around the new Botany headquarters,