Definition of macchiato
: espresso topped with a thin layer of foamed milk
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Here is something the self-help folks never tell you: Millionaires don't waste their mental bandwidth on how much a caramel macchiato costs.
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Here's coffee, American-style: Rush in, jostle in line, try to remember the difference between a flat white and a macchiato, settle in with a laptop and free WiFi, ear buds in your ears, and ignore everything around you.
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Hot and cold options are joined by coffees like macchiato and cappuccinos.
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Among them is a clever and generous lab-glass mug printed with the proportions of coffee, milk and water needed to prepare various drinks, like a macchiato, an Americano and a flat white.
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The coffee flavors are available in the brand’s lineup of hot or iced coffees, lattes, macchiatos, frozen coffee, and frozen chocolate.
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An espresso is $2.50, macchiato and cortado $3 each, and cappuccino $3.75.
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THE DRINKS Katz Coffee, of course: macchiato, cortado, flat white, cappuccino, latte and drip coffee as well as nitro and cold-brew coffee on tap.
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Here, the baristas can make little hearts in my macchiato and are virtuosic French hornists and percussionists.
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Origin and Etymology of macchiato
Italian, short for caffè macchiato literally, coffee with a spot (of milk)
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