A Table for Those Who Come Alone
The community we want to build also has room for anyone looking for a little time to themselves.
A reflection on hospitality, personal space and the different ways of being part of Baristas Club.
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What we hear, watch and learn also shapes the Club.
Music, film, design and creative references that connect with how we understand space, community and everyday work.
These are not conventional reviews. They are clues to why something feels connected to Baristas Club.
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Music
Listening, movement and ways of understanding the world.
Nu Genea: Naples Under the Moon
The Mediterranean understood as a meeting place.
Disco, funk, boogie and many shores gathered into a Neapolitan sound full of light, detail and movement.
Read storyParcels: From Byron Bay to Berlin
Five musicians truly listening to one another.
Electro-pop, disco-soul and ensemble precision with a clean, bright and infectious groove.
Read storyKhruangbin’s Warm Journey
Music that changes the atmosphere without taking it over.
Instrumental funk, soul, dub and global psychedelia for listening without watching the clock.
Read storyParis with L’Impératrice
Relaxed elegance that always ends up inviting you to dance.
Elastic bass lines, bright synthesizers and French pop with rhythm, detail and playfulness.
Read storyThere's Something Very Baristas About David Byrne
Curiosity, movement and a kind of strangeness that always makes room for others.
An invitation to hear a creator who turns the everyday into a question and mixing things together into a form of community.
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Film and Series
Films and series that help us look more closely at everyday life.
Chef: Starting Again by Doing What Matters
Craft, freedom and a scale at which you recognise yourself again.
Jon Favreau’s film connects food, identity, family and the courage to rebuild a project from what matters most.
Read storyThe Holdovers: Learning to See One Another
Three people become more than the roles they occupy.
Alexander Payne brings three isolated people together and finds a small community where there had only been obligation.
Read storyThe Intern: Experience, Trust and Balance
Growth does not mean having every answer.
Nancy Meyers’s film looks at intergenerational work and the need to sustain ambition without losing the life around it.
Read storyTed Lasso: Believing in People
Leadership begins not with knowing more, but with seeing better.
Between the lines, the series is about trust, listening, vulnerability and a kind of growth that leaves nobody behind.
Read storyPerfect Days: The Beauty of Small Rituals
A film that teaches us to pay attention again to what we do every day.
Wim Wenders finds music, dignity and meaning in a life shaped by gestures repeated with intention.
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Design and Craft
Small decisions, steady work and an identity under construction.
You Can Tell When Something Is Made Well
Design, craft and the work that may not be visible but can always be felt.
A space, a drink or a T-shirt does not depend on one grand gesture, but on many small decisions learning to live together.
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How We Create a New Menu at Baristas Club
Ideas, testing, teamwork and decisions until a dish finds its place
A new menu does not begin when it is printed: it grows through observation, imagination, testing and balance between identity, team, produce and everyday life.
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People and Work
Trust, shared growth and the balances that sustain the Club.
A Table for Those Who Come Alone
The community we want to build also has room for anyone looking for a little time to themselves.
A reflection on hospitality, personal space and the different ways of being part of Baristas Club.
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Growing Together
The company we want to build and the people who give it meaning.
Baristas began with a dream, but it has only been able to grow through trust, shared work and the willingness to find human balance.
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From an Idea to a Community
The growth of Baristas Club, inside and out.
A natural journey from the first intuition to a project that now brings together a space, a team, a brand, education, social media, an app and a community.
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This archive brings together what we learn, what inspires us and the places in Bilbao that feel close to home.
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