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I tend to like to save twitter for more pithy items and this blog for more substantive ones. While I do plan on using both to report back on my trip to SCAA 2010, I wanted to add another tool to the arsenal. You can link over to mscspecialevent.wordpress.com, where I’ll attempt to create a hybrid [...]
April 14, 2010 Category: California, Greater LA Area, Orange County, United States, event Tags: coffee, espresso, LA Area Coffee Map, Los Angeles coffee, Orange County coffee, SCAA 2010, SCAA Exposition, USBC 2010
As a reader of this blog, it’s very likely that you are now either on your way or soon will be to gawk, schmooze, blog, present, compete or otherwise partake in the extravaganza known as the 2010 Specialty Coffee Association of America’s exposition. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, this annual convention includes [...]
February 11, 2010 Category: California, Greater LA Area, Rating 4, United States, coffee@home, roaster Tags: Belle Espresso, coffee, Coffee Klatch, coffee review, espresso, Go Coffee Go, Heather Perry, Klatch Roasting, Mike Perry, rating coffee, WBC, WBC 2007
Beans: Belle Espresso
Roaster: Klatch Roasters
Rating: 4-
I ordered two different coffees from Go Coffee Go on the same day. The first to arrive, in just 2 days, was my order of Belle Espresso from Klatch Roasters. A pretty good turn around time, although not entirely surprising given that Klatch is located in Southern California while my other [...]
January 17, 2010 Category: California, Greater LA Area, Rating 3, United States, cafe Tags: Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Caffe Luxxe, coffee, coffee review, Equator Cafe, espresso, espressomap.com, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, Los Angeles coffee, rating coffee, Synesso Cyncra, Venice Coffee Bar
Name: Caffe Luxxe
Location: 925 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Roaster: Blue Bottle Coffee Company (drip) and Unknown (espresso)
Rating: 3
After heading out of Intelligentsia’s Venice Coffee Bar I couldn’t help but take a peek at the Equator Cafe inside Equator Books, which hosts an impressive coffee setup serving coffee from non-other than the Bay Area’s own, Blue Bottle [...]
January 13, 2010 Category: California, Greater LA Area, Rating 4, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Black Cat Espresso, Clover Brewer, coffee, coffee review, Colombia coffee, Colombia Finca Santuario, Ecco Caffe, espresso, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, Eva Solo Brewer, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Intelligentsia Venice, LA coffee, La Marzocco, rating coffee, siphon brewer, Synesso, Venice Coffee Bar
Name: Venice Coffee Bar
Location: 1331 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, CA
Roaster: Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea
Rating: 4
I first experienced Intelligentsia’s Venice Coffee Bar back in May 2009. That visit – the grand opening party – was monumental in that it was the first glimpse that most folks were getting of this much hyped new cafe. It was filled [...]
January 11, 2010 Category: California, Greater LA Area, Rating 3, United States, cafe Tags: coffee, coffee review, Costa Rica Cafetin, Costa Rica coffee, Equator Estate Coffees and Tea, espresso, Four Barrel Coffee, Groundwork Coffee Company, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Jaguar blend espresso, Kenya coffee, Kenya Kanyoni, La Marzocco GB/5, Los Angeles coffee, Lot 44 Coffee, rating coffee, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Spring for Coffee
Name: Spring For Coffee
Location: 548 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA
Roaster: rotating menu, including: Equator, Four Barrel, Intelligentsia and Ritual
Rating: 3+
Spring for Coffee is a 300 square foot coffee bar kiosk is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, which if you haven’t heard, is no longer the desolate wasteland it once was. People actually [...]
November 2, 2009 Category: Brooklyn, California, East Bay, Greater LA Area, Manhattan, New York, New York City, North Bay, San Francisco, South Bay, United States, blog management, the scoop Tags: 33 Revolutions Cafe, Awaken Cafe, Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, coffee, Coffee Bar, Coffee Ratings, Counter Culture Coffee, Dynamo Donuts, East Bay coffee, Ecco Caffe, Epicenter Cafe, espresso, farm:table, Flying Goat Coffee, Four Barrel Coffee, Haus Cafe, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Intelligentsia Silverlake, Intelligentsia Venice, Local 123, Los Angeles coffee, Man Seeking Coffee, Modern Coffee, Mojo Bicycle Cafe, Moksha Coffee Roasters, Mr. Espresso, New York City coffee, Pacific Bay Coffee Company, Remedy Coffee, Ritual Coffee Roasters, San Francisco coffee, Scarlett City Coffee Roasters, Sightglass Coffee, Specialty's Cafe and Bakery, Stable Coffee, Stumptown Ace Hotel New York, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Subrosa Coffee, Taylor Maid Farms, The Shot, Verve Coffee Roasters
Trick or…Coffee?
Halloween activities most typically involve costumes, collecting candy or cavorting in the Castro (or the location du jour), but I, unintentionally, managed to associate Halloween with the anniversary of this blog. That’s right. I started writing Man Seeking Coffee two years ago on October 31, 2007. So I’ll start this post by patting myself on [...]
August 17, 2009 Category: California, Chicago, Greater LA Area, Illinois, Rating 3, Rating 4, United States, coffee@home Tags: coffee, coffee review, Culture Cafe, El Salvador coffee, El Salvador Los Inmortales, espresso, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Panama coffee, Panama El Machete, rating coffee, Third Rail Coffee
Beans: Los Inmortales El Salvador and El Machete, Panama
Roaster: Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea
Rating: 3+ and 4-
At the risk of sounding like a total Intelligentsia shill – having recently touted both Culture and Third Rail – I’ll go ahead and give my plug for these two fine coffee from Intelligentsia. Of course, this review may only do you [...]
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