Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know.
The short answers to the questions we hear most about booking La Vita Espresso for your Twin Cities or Milwaukee event.
Contact UsThe Twin Cities’ original coffee cart catering company, in business since 1995. Thirty years of full-service espresso, gelato, smoothie, nitro cold brew, and hot cocoa bar catering for weddings, corporate events, and private celebrations, now serving the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin.
Licensed and Insured
Health department licensed, fully insured, COIs on request. Your venue will never ask twice.
Commercial-Grade Equipment
La Marzocco GS/3 espresso machines. Mahlkönig E80 grinders. Built for 200+ drinks per hour, not your kitchen counter.
Full Experience
Handcrafted exotic hardwood carts, trained baristas, Ripples latte art printing, and a live split-flap display. We bring everything.
The Original
In business since 1995. Others followed. The standard hasn’t changed.
We don’t undercut. We outclass.
Do you have a food truck or coffee truck?
+No. All of our services are provided on mobile coffee catering carts that we set up anywhere indoors. If you searched for coffee truck catering, that’s us, just on a cart that comes to you instead of a truck you walk out to.
Why stand outside in a cold parking lot in January when we can set up right inside your warm, heated office? Whether you’re in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, or anywhere across the Twin Cities and Southeast Wisconsin, our portable carts bring the full experience to you.
Will you come to my event and sell coffee individually on a cash-sale basis?
+No. La Vita Espresso is licensed as a catering company, and we are not legally permitted to conduct individual cash sales.
All services are provided at a flat group rate — an open bar experience for your guests. The cost is covered by the event host. Your guests never reach for their wallets.
Will you set up in my backyard, side yard, or inside my house?
+For residential events, we set up in your garage or driveway only. No backyards, side yards, front yards, or interiors.
If your event is in a party room at a condo or apartment building with ramp access or elevators (no steps or stairs), we can cater there without any issues.
How many baristas and espresso machines does my event need?
+That is our question to answer, not yours. Give us the guest count, the venue, and the timing. Working out what the service takes is the part you hired us for, and we have been doing it since 1995.
Every event is staffed by trained baristas and built on commercial equipment made for continuous service. Not a Breville. A Breville is a home kitchen appliance, and it belongs on a kitchen counter, not at your event.
This is why other quote pages sell a second barista by the hour, or a second machine to speed up service. When the equipment cannot carry the event on its own, the shortfall becomes a line item. Sit with what that means. The service you already requested is being sold back to you as the version that still struggles to keep pace.
Are your products gluten free?
+Gluten-free:
May contain gluten (ask us):
Are your products allergy free?
+We keep our service areas clean and do what we can to prevent cross-contamination. However, guests with allergies should be aware:
Important: Our products are made on equipment that may have trace elements of nuts, egg, dairy, wheat, soy, almond, sesame, and other allergy-inducing items. If you or your guests have severe allergies, please discuss this with us before booking.
Ask us anything.
We’ve been answering these questions for thirty years. Yours won’t stump us.
Contact UsPrefer to call? 612-746-3975 (Twin Cities) or 414-949-8482 (Wisconsin)
Serving the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, and Southeast Wisconsin.