Illy Coffee and the Art of Italian Coffee Making If you buy a couple of packs of Illy capsules, they actually give you a free designed Illy pod coffee maker! Click here. A few years ago I went to Italy with a friend. We visited Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Rome and Venice. Wherever we came you could have a coffee at a small local café. The coffee always tasted better than anything else I’ve ever had before. I couldn’t understand why. Was it the water? Was it always freshly ground? Was it that the beans were roasted just the day before? Was it the giant espresso machines?