Garoto
Also café garoto, pingo (Porto)
A Portuguese espresso cup of mostly hot milk with a little coffee, the mild small milk drink.
Espresso and milkServed hotFrom Portugal
- Volume
- 70ml2.4 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 1shot
- Caffeine
- 64mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:2.5
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Espresso20 ml29%
- Milk50 ml71%
- Volume
- 70ml
- Caffeine
- 64mg
- Espresso
- 1shot
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
An espresso cup filled mostly with milk and a little coffee.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 70 ml garoto
Derived per shot: USDA FoodData Central FDC 171891 (espresso, restaurant-prepared) lists 212 mg per 100 g; a standard 30 g shot is about 63.6 mg, times 1 shot(s). Real values vary with dose, roast and species (robusta roughly doubles it).
USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
2| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| pingado | Portugal | Espresso with just a drop of milk. |
| cortado | Spain | Spanish, more coffee. |
History
Popular accountPortuguese café vocabulary; no primary source documents its origin.
Portugal: 'little boy'.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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