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A Miracle in the Desert?

Name: Milagro Coffee y Espresso
Location: 1733 East University Avenue, Las Cruces, NM
Rating: 3-

After flying into El Paso, TX and heading an hour north to Las Cruces, I didn’t have the time or energy to head another 3 hours east in search of the godshot that espressomap suggests may be found at the Jahva House in [...]

Top Secret Coffee

Name: Gold Street Caffe
Location: 218 Gold Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM
Rating: 2-

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Prince posted this rumor on Twitter. Ever since, I’ve been eagerly looking about for signs of this Intelligentsia purchuse to the point of actually considering absurd hypotheses. The sight of a Southwest airlines seatback card even made me wonder. Might [...]

Getting My Kicks On Route 66

Name: The Coffee House
Location: 203 W. Coal Avenue, Gallup, NM
Rating: 2-

The drive from Albuquerque to Gallup is a long one, especially late at night, and neither the drive nor the destination held much promise for good coffee. I’m not sure about you, but facing such deprivation starts to make me a little stir crazy. Even though [...]

The Grove

Name: The Grove Cafe & Market
Location: 600 Central Avenue SE, Suite A, Albuquerque, NM
Rating: 4-

It’s incredibly humbling to find that even painstaking research can occasionally let you down. In all my recent trips to Albuquerque, I somehow overlooked The Grove. To be fair to myself, I didn’t actually overlook it. I had noticed it on several [...]

A Man Wanders into Winning…

Name: Winning Coffee Company
Location: 111 Harvard Drive SE, Albuquerque, NM
Roaster: Winning Coffee Company
Rating: 2

I learned on my recent trip to Albuquerque that the 2008 USBC is happening there right now! Of course, the “B” in this case stands for “bowling” and not “barista,” but this realization isn’t as disappointing for me as you might think. You [...]

Napoli Coffee

Name: Napoli Coffee
Location: 2839 Carlisle Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM
Roasters: Batdorf and Bronson and Caffe Umbria
Rating: 2+

Napoli Coffee enjoys a brisk and friendly local business. At least, that was my take during the couple of hours I spent there doing some work one morning. I watched a steady flow of customers chatting with the baristas, who [...]

Is it possible to be as bad as Bad Ass?

Name: Bad Ass Coffee
Location: 965 F Highway 550, Bernalillo, NM
Roaster: Bad Ass Coffee Company
Rating: 1+

I’ve been in aesthetically unpleasant cafes and visited shops that just couldn’t make a decent cup of coffee. While I’ve felt sorry for these businesses and often puzzled by their inability to fix their problem, I never harbored open disdain or [...]

Satellite Coffee

Name: Satellite Coffee
Location: 2300 Central Ave SE (at Harvard), Albuquerque, NM (and 4 other Albuquerque locations)
Roaster: Satellite Coffee
Rating: 2+

Stepping into one of Albuquerque’s five Satellite Coffee locations made me think of an historical re-enactment of what it must have been like for a 70′s Seattle-ite to step into one of the handful of original Starbucks, a [...]