For the occasion of Host Milano, Plus4Champions, the official machine for the WLAC and WCIGS championships, is in excellent company: the Queen of Astoria’s main bar has been made unmistakable by the special frames created for the World finals in Gothenburg, and it has been attracting a flock of champions.
Many finalists from the 2015 World Latte Art Championship came to visit the Astoria stand, where another champion, Thailand’s Arnon Thitiprasert, will be revealing the secrets of latte art until Monday: visitors included Markus Badura, the German latte art champion, and China’s Xuechao Wang, who was third at the 2015 WLAC. On this, the first day of Host, they caught up to Arnon to say hi and even met Captain Astoria.