Live Finals for Top Latte Artist Coming Soon

ECM presents Cheque for $1500 to Sua Hong

Congratulations Sua for finishing 1st and winning $1,500 in the online qualifier for the Top Latte Artist in Vancouver! WOW

The Top 16 qualifiers will compete for another $2,500 at the Live Finals,  September 21st, 630pm at The NEW Kafka’s Coffee Shop by Emily Carr University

Each competitor will be filmed live by Starbeat. You can watch and vote here or see it live at Kafka’s!

Different from the online qualifier, there will be 4 expert judges. These expert judges and your votes will determine who will be champion. You can follow along and vote here.  

Top 16 Qualifiers

  1. Sua Hong from Nemesis Coffee  who wins $1,500 !
  2. Arisa Fukuhara from Hey Happy Coffee wins a $800 Voucher from Canadian Barista & Coffee Academy for their “Opening a Coffee Business” course.
  3. Lauren de Silva from Propaganda Coffee  wins a beautifully hand-crafted Reg Barber Coffee Tamper !
  4. Misaki Yoshihara from Cafe Mira
  5. Cole Trepanier from Nemesis Coffee
  6. Luka Kawabata
  7. Yasmien Khan from Nemesis Coffee
  8. Stephaine Ng from Fresh Cup Roastery
  9. Kazuma Go from Great Dane Coffee.
    1. Replacement for Kazuma is Clement Ip from Propaganda Coffee  
  10. Gavin Tong from Rocanini
  11. Kunie Ibana from Platform 7 
  12. Kyoung Jun Min
  13. Yoyo Li from Rocanini
  14. Daniel Chang from his own home 
  15. Hitomi Fukuda from Propaganda Coffee
  16. Remi Ho from Origo Club

Tickets and more info coming soon.

For more info follow Starbeat on instagram  / facebook

Top 16 BC Latte Artists

Here are the Results for the Live Finals

September 21st, 2018

The top 16 are:

  1. Kunie Ibana from Platform 7
  2. Sua Hong from Nemesis Coffee  who wins $1,500 !
  3. Kyoung Jun Min @junjulyau8

to view all video entries click here https://starbeat.tv/latte-art/

Congratulations to the top 3 and a huge thanks to everyone who competed:

Here are the Results for the Online Qualifier

August 31st, 2018

The top 16 from the online qualifier contest are:

  1. Sua Hong from Nemesis Coffee  who wins $1,500 !
  2. Arisa Fukuhara from Hey Happy Coffee wins a $800 Voucher from Canadian Barista & Coffee Academy for their “Opening a Coffee Business” course.
  3. Lauren de Silva from Propaganda Coffee  wins a beautifully hand-crafted Reg Barber Coffee Tamper !
  4. Misaki Yoshihara from Cafe Mira
  5. Cole Trepanier from Nemesis Coffee
  6. Luka Kawabata
  7. Yasmien Khan from Nemesis Coffee
  8. Stephaine Ng from Fresh Cup Roastery
  9. Kazuma Go from Great Dane Coffee
  10. Gavin Tong from Rocanini
  11. Kunie Ibana from Platform 7
  12. Kyoung Jun Min
  13. Yoyo Li from Rocanini
  14. Daniel Chang from his own home 🙂
  15. Hitomi Fukuda from Propaganda Coffee
  16. Remi Ho from Origo Club

Hey, it’s not over yet!

All 16 latte artists will compete at the live finals for a grand prize of $2500 and the prestigious title of Top Latte Artist in Vancouver for 2018.

If you haven’t yet, then head over to Starbeat.tv to watch the Top 30 Video Submissions here.

Stay tuned for the ‘Live’ Finals to be held on September 21st. Follow us on social media or subscribe to our newsletter to be kept informed.

The Top Latte Artist Contest was powered by a great group of people at Starbeat – Thank you!

And thank you to all of the sponsors: ECM Espresso Coffee Machines, Breville Canada, Canadian Barista Institute, Agro Roasters & Us