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Gwilym Davies (barista)
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Barista
A barista is a person, usually a coffee-house employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.- Application of the title :...
, currently the world champion in this discipline.
Davies was born in Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
, England, and grew up in Leeds
Leeds
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, Yorkshire
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. Davies took the World Barista Championship
World Barista Championship
thumb|250px|[[Barista]] [[Gwilym Davies |Gwilym Davies]] at the WBC.The World Barista Championship is the current premier barista competition, with the winners of each national barista championship competing for the world title...
crown in Atlanta, GA, USA in April 2009. Davies had been well known in barista in London for a few years, before winning the WBC. He was supported and trained by James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer of the Square Mile Coffee Roasters, who with Gwilym's win have trained and roasted the coffee for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 World Barista Champions. Becoming well known for his coffee carts on Whitecross Street and Columbia Road as well as having started the Prufrock coffee concession in Present on Shoreditch High Street.Gwilym now runs a cafe and training facility on Leather Lane, London.