Europiccola Lusso (LPLELQ01EU)

I love my LPE and after figuring it out it makes the best espresso I’ve ever had. If OP is looking to branch out a lever is a LOT of fun!

I have Lilet Mara and La Pavoni 1978, Europiccola. The lever is fantastic. Love them both but the lever makes better coffee.

I have Lilet Mara and La Pavoni 1978, Europiccola. The lever is fantastic. Love them both but the lever makes better coffee.

I have a la Pavoni from 1971 and it works really incredibly well. I’d be pissed if I had to replace something like that every 10 years even.

La pavoni europicola (used)

Not all of those things are true for all lever machines, only for the ones with no boiler... I got our first-born a La Pavoni Europiccola when they moved out and they are very happy with it. A certain amount of practice on my Elektra was of course a pre-cursor to that.

Interesting categories. I'd probably go with * Manual levers (Flair, Robot, etc.) * Semi-automatic levers (La Pavoni Europiccola, Olympia Cremina, etc.) (some call this "classic lever") * Spring levers (Profitec 800, Olympia Cremina SL, etc.) * Pseudo-levers (Decent, Wendougee) (i.e. non-levers but digital controls to simulate lever profiles) * Programmable Levers (or whatever the Meticulous is)

I came here to say this! I agonized over getting into home espresso and espresso milk drinks for 10 years, and ended up with a la pavoni europiccola from ebay (dated 1991 but clearly never used / was just counter art). I can dial in shots easily with a 1zpresso k max, total set up is less than 1k. More money for good coffee beans