My experience: I've tried nespresso and it's just not in the same league as really excellent coffee. This is true for some surprising reasons. Coffee from most

My experience: I've tried nespresso and it's just not in the same league as really excellent coffee. This is true for some surprising reasons. Coffee from most specialist espresso cafes is really not that good. But some are. I got the barista at one to teach me how she made coffee (Note: although already experienced, she wasn't very good for the first year at that cafe, but became extraordinary within 3 years). The two things I learned were that (1). the grind is affected by the changing humidity and temperature of the day, so must be adjusted (this is more important for an espresso cafe, where the machine is near the entrance - in a fancy hotel, it would be climate controlled); (2). the texture of the milk froth (for a latte) is very important to the experience - when correct, you can see the milk falling like snow through the coffee. There is no boundary between coffee and milk, but a very gradual gradient (which disappears within a few minutes). Although it looks nice, the big difference is in the incredible silky taste. tl;dr grind and frothing automation