Fabrizio Gerbino
Opening, Saturday, April 10, 2010
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Espresso a Mano
3623 Butler St., Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Fabrizio Gerbino presents a series of paintings- oils and acrylics on canvas.
Most of the works date from 2009 and 2010.
Gerbino incorporates in his work themes and subjects from urban spaces, industrial buildings, and abandoned industrial objects.
The paintings will exhibit through May [...]

We are lucky to be located in one of the coolest communities in Pittsburgh.  Lawrenceville is filled with many terrific independent shops, boutiques, restuarants, and bars.  Some of these include:
Tamari- terrific Asian/Latin fusion restuarant!, Dozen Bakeshop- Awesome bakery with great Sunday brunch, Asian Influences- Great place to buy lovely Asian art and furnishings, Borelli Edwards [...]

We have a rotating coffee selection here at Espresso a Mano.  Each day we drip brew one type of coffee, french press another to serve in individual cups, and have two espresso options.  We also have a wide selection of coffees available to brew for you in personal french press servings.  Some of our current selections:
Holiday [...]

We now have two new and special coffees available as of today:
1. Aida’s Grand Reserve from Santa Ana, El Salvador
    – This Certified Organic Coffee from Aida Batile’s farms in Santa Ana El Salvador offers intense peaberry sweetness, stone fruit, and spice.  It is the best of the best from this renowned coffee grower.  It’s [...]

I think a good topic for our first post would be the most basic and impornat thing we do: espresso.  What is it?  What’s so great about it?  What makes a good espresso or a bad espresso?
To start with, espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage (usually 1 to 2 oz.) that is characterized by having [...]