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The bar & 64 seats
One long brushed-steel bar, a La Marzocco, and sixty-four seats on a polished concrete floor. Sheer curtains soften the light; nothing else softens the room.
Story · Since 2027Via Tortona 31, Milano
POURED,NOT BUILT.
SLAB is three floors of board-formed concrete, a lot of brushed steel, and one cobalt stair holding it all together.
Drawing S-02 · Section A—A+00.00
01 / The building
Read it like a drawing: from the ground up.
+04.80 · First02 / 03
Slow bar & reading room
Up the cobalt spiral: a six-seat slow bar for pour overs and cuppings, and a reading room with no music and a shelf of books on concrete, cities and coffee.
+09.60 · Roof03 / 03
The court
Where the water tanks used to be: a regulation badminton court wrapped in glass against the wind, floodlit until ten. Play a set above Tortona, then walk down for a cold brew.
02 / What we hold toFour rules, poured in
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Raw over refined.
Board-formed concrete keeps the grain of the timber it was poured against. We kept it. We keep our coffee the same way: honest about where it came from.
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Slow is a feature.
Eighteen-hour cold brew, laminated croissants, pour overs weighed to the gram. If it takes time, it takes time.
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Steel, not plastic.
Trays, cups, coupes and tables in brushed stainless. It lasts, it cleans, and it makes a €2 espresso look like it means it.
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Neighbours first.
Tortona was making things long before us. Early opening for the studios and the canal walkers, a quiet first floor for the readers, a court for the restless.
03 / The beans
FROM THE FARM
Green beans from Guji in Ethiopia, Huila in Colombia and the Cerrado in Brazil, roasted every week in-house on Via Tortona so nothing on the bar is older than seven days.
03Origins · Guji, Huila & Cerrado
07Days max from roast to cup
01Rotating single origin on V60