Nice quality espresso The wand is alright too though strange that it needs to be so horizontal when manually used, would prefer it more upright.

Ok, so it looks super cute on the bench top, with such a small footprint, good enough reason to buy it. However, buy this if you're looking for the easiest way to make Cafe quality coffee out of the box, seriously. Start with fresh beans, set the brew temp to suit the roast, for me it is the second setting, and hit the espresso button for a perfect extraction, every time. The 51mm portafilter basket I think gives better extraction than my previous machines 58mm. The 51 offers a deeper basket, which produces a much richer extraction. I've changed the 2 cup espresso, so the extraction is down from 60mls to 40mls, so no longer enough for 2 cups, but a true double shot, but try the single basket first, it won't disappoint. Easy to adjust, or simply use out of the box. The milk frother works well enough with 3 foam and 3 heat settings, or easy to use in manual mode. The automatic might not give you Cafe perfect milk, but it constantly gives very good milk. I do my milk first, then the espresso, I think it gives a better coffee than the other way around. This is one great machine (so very cute), don't hesitate to buy, you won't be disappointed. DeLonghi are very, very good to deal with directly.

We haven’t used it yet. We have an existing manual machine which this will replace and it looks great and has good features for us.