If you’re looking to make your own café-worthy drinks at home, one of the best espresso machines can help. These are our top picks for 2025, based on rigorous testing.

Keurig sent me a K-Café Smart machine to test out ahead of the launch. I’ve made several café drinks with it, among them a pumpkin spice latte, chai latte, cappuccino and London fog.

The Ninja Luxe Café espresso machine offers professional-level drinks with minimal effort, making it easy for anyone to master.

Ninja's machine uses a smart weight-based dosing system which weighs your coffee as it grinds. In theory, this means your coffee puck should always be at the right level.

The 77 fl.oz water tank is removable — albeit in quite a trick way from the back of the machine — but one of my favorite things about the Breville Oracle Jet is that you can refill the water ...

Using Lavazza-compatible coffee pods, this machine can create two different types of coffee: espresso and espresso lungo, which takes slightly longer to brew but results in a stronger coffee. You ...

If you settle on a more expensive manual or semi-automatic machine that costs, say, $1200, it works out at just $150 a year over an eight-year lifespan. Add to that the cost of coffee beans for one ...

The machine consisted of a large boiler, heated to 1.5 bars of pressure, that pushed water through a large bed of coffee grounds on demand, with a second boiler producing steam that would flash ...