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(Quasi) Live Updates from SCAA 2010

ManSeekingCoffee — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:00:48 +0000

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 [...]

The Man Seeking Coffee LA Coffee Map

ManSeekingCoffee — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:00:31 +0000

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 [...]

coffee@home: Belle Espresso

ManSeekingCoffee — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:00:35 +0000

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 [...]

Caffe Luxxe

ManSeekingCoffee — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:00:59 +0000

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 [...]

Venice: A Coffee Bar? Not a Coffee Bar?

ManSeekingCoffee — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:21:51 +0000

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 [...]

Spring For This Coffee

ManSeekingCoffee — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:00:13 +0000

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 [...]

Man Seeking Coffee 2.0

ManSeekingCoffee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:35:30 +0000

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 [...]

coffee@home: Intelligentsia Los Inmortales and El Machete

ManSeekingCoffee — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:00:27 +0000

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, [...]

Journey to the Center of Beverly Hills

ManSeekingCoffee — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:04:51 +0000

Name: Urth Caffe Location: 267 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA Rating: 2+

The tacky, smoothy poster standing on the sidewalk in front of Urth Caffe’s Beverly Hills store was the first sign that the coffee here might take a back seat. The second was the well lit display case filled with frilly pastries [...]

A Million Things to Say About LAMILL

ManSeekingCoffee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:29:32 +0000

Name: LAMILL Location: 1636 Silverlake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA Rating: 3+

LAMILL is not your ordinary cafe. It’s a full service restaurant that happens to focus intensely on and roast its own coffee. I’d loosely classify it as a cousin of Blue Bottle’s Cafe or perhaps the new Intelligentsia Venice when you consider range [...]