There’s nothing like making a delicious cup of coffee from the comfort of your own home. You get to wake up on a lazy Saturday morning and enjoy a cappuccino; roll out of bed bright and early on Monday and take a hot Americano to work; or settle into the couch after dinner on a weeknight with a decaf latte. The De’Longhi Rivelia automatic espresso machine is the perfect small appliance to help you enjoy all of your coffee moments with zero muss, fuss, or hassle.
The Rivelia does a great job of bringing you a high-end café experience at home. Keep reading to find out what makes this machine such a pleasure to use, plus all of the (many!) full-caf and decaf customizable drinks you can make with it.
What’s in the box of the De’Longhi Rivelia automatic espresso machine?
In the box of the De’Longhi Rivelia, you’ll find the machine itself, a water filter and water hardness testing kit, a dishwasher-safe milk carafe, and two interchangeable bean hoppers with washable lids. One lid is white and the other is a very dark grey to denote which beans are decaf and which are full-caf.
Inside the Rivelia, you’ll find a removable drip tray. The three-part drip tray has a grate and an interior catch bin for used coffee grounds and espresso pucks. On top, surrounding the machine’s steam vent, you’ll find a dosing spoon for pre-ground coffee, a removable funnel for adding grounds, and a detachable hot water spout. On the side is a removable water tank.
The front of the Rivelia features an accessories connector with lid and a movable set of coffee spouts—you can raise and lower them on a smooth track to suit your cup or mug height.
The model shown here is the Rivelia in White, which is exclusive to Best Buy in Canada. It’s also available in Black, and will be available in Grey later this year.
De’Longhi Rivelia features and functions
The De’Longhi Rivelia Automatic Espresso Machine is fully automatic. It grinds, doses, and brews your coffee from scratch, heating and frothing both plant-based and animal-based milk to suit any diet or palate. It features soft corners, a 3.5″ colour touchscreen display, and a thermoblock boiler that ensures fast, precise water heating. Bean Adapt technology helps customize your machine to extract the best flavour from your coffee beans. It features 13 burr grind sizes and water temperature optimization.
The Rivelia is pre-programmed to make 18 preset coffee recipes. Its menu is split into coffee-forward and milk-forward recipes, including drinks like espresso, lattes, cappuccinos, and cortados. Each recipe comes with step-by-step guidance and customization. You can save your customizations to four different user profiles and names, fine-tuning details like temperature, bean type, and intensity so you can make your drinks exactly how you like them. De’Longhi’s intelligent CoffeeRoutine feature will even adjust its menu suggestions based on the daily routines of each of its user profiles. With CoffeeRoutine, it’s easy to select and make the drinks you love when you want them.
Coffee drinks you can make in the De’Longhi Rivelia
The Rivelia is a machine that’s made for versatility and customization. With it, you can make these 18 drinks:
- Coffee
- Coffee (long)
- Iced coffee
- Americano
- Iced Americano
- Cappuccino
- Cappuccino mix
- Espresso
- Espresso macchiato
- Espresso lungo
- 2x Espresso (separate, simultaneous drip)
- Iced espresso
- Cortado
- Latte
- Latte macchiato
- Flat white
- Hot milk (use included LatteCreme milk carafe)
- Hot water (use included hot water spout)
With the Rivelia’s interchangeable bean hoppers, it’s easy to switch between full-caf and decaf versions of any of these 18 drinks. Just change out the hopper, run the machine’s burr grinder cleaning cycle, and you’re ready to go!
Common customizations for Rivelia drinks include:
- Add a shot
- Modify intensity
- Modify size
- Long extraction
- Customize for ice amount
What accessories come with the Rivelia?
The Rivelia comes with a LatteCrema hot milk carafe and two bean hoppers. Its milk carafe is somewhat unique—it’s a part of the machine, not a cup-like accessory. The LatteCrema both stores and froths your milk, unlike a standard open-top carafe with a steaming wand. It clicks right into the front of the Rivelia and you can store your milk in it in the fridge.
It’s also quite unique that the Rivelia comes with two interchangeable bean hoppers by default. It’s the perfect way to switch between full-caf and decaf beans, making this espresso machine an appliance that easily transitions from morning to night (or from user to user). The switch is seamless, with a built-in burr-emptying function and two different coloured lids for your bean hoppers.
The Rivelia also comes with a hot water spout that circumvents the coffee maker entirely. With a separate spout, you can get hot water at an instant’s notice without any trace of coffee flavour or oils. It’s stored in the machine itself, so you never risk losing it despite its small size. In the same compartment, this espresso machine also has a scoop and funnel for pre-ground coffee. Not only can you switch your bean type, but youc an use this machine no matter what kind of beans or grounds you’re working with.
Switch between hot and cold foam
If you want to enrich your coffee-making experience, De’Longhi also makes a LatteCrema Cool Upgrade Set—perfect for cool drinks in those summer months. The LatteCrema Cool is exactly what it sounds like: an attachment that froths your milk for cold drink recipes. It’s exactly the tool you’ll want for making gorgeous, iced flat whites and well-balanced iced lattes. It comes with four double-walled glass cups, which are optimized for use with cold drinks.
The hot LatteCrema attachment (included with the Rivelia) is excellent, producing a gorgeous, dense microfoam that chills nicely over ice. It functions very well on its own, but the Cool option is a great customization for coffee enthusiasts who love cold foam. It’ll help you create iced drinks that aren’t watered down, elevating each drink to perfection no matter the season.
Like the Rivelia’s two bean hoppers, the LatteCrema Hot and Cool are also easy to tell apart thanks to different-coloured lids. The LatteCrema Hot has a dark grey/black lid, while the Cool has a white lid. Both attach to the Rivelia in the same way, clicking into its attachment port and storing as-is in the fridge between coffee sessions.
No muss or fuss
Another rather unique feature of the De’Longhi Rivelia is that most of its processes happen inside the machine itself. It’s a simple, no-fuss system that elevates your home café experience. There’s no need for you to buy a separate coffee bean grinder or milk frother; those are already part of the machine.
As an automatic espresso machine, the Rivelia is designed so that you won’t need to disperse, tamp, or extract from a separate portafilter, despite making espresso. All of that happens inside of the machine itself. The Rivelia also runs cleaning cycles for its burr grinder, hot water taps, and milk frother so that you don’t have to. Your deep-cleaning is kept to a minimum, so you can make fresh, delicious coffee without any hassle.
Bring the café experience home with Rivelia
The De’Longhi Rivelia automatic espresso machine is a sleek, beautiful appliance that’s designed to deliver a seamless user experience. It works with multiple types of coffee, whether your favourite blend is whole bean or pre-ground—and it makes it easy to switch from one to another. It’s the perfect machine for making and customizing all of your favourite espresso drinks, from oat milk lattes to Americanos.
From the Rivelia’s multiple bean hoppers to its attachment port (which slides shut when not in use), every piece of this machine is purpose-built to perfection.
Ready to discover all of the delicious coffee drinks that you can make from home? Shop the De’Longhi Rivelia automatic espresso machine online at Best Buy today.
