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April 28, 2009 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 2, United States, restaurant Tags: Albuquerque coffee, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Gold Street Cafe, New Mexico coffee, rating coffee, The Coffee House, The Grove
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 [...]
December 13, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 4, United States Tags: Albuquerque coffee, Black Cat Decaf, Black Cat Espresso, Black Cat Project, coffee, coffee review, Diablo blend, espresso, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Jay Caragay, Michael Thomas Coffee, Nicaragua coffee, Nicaragua Flor Azul, Otono blend, rating coffee, 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 [...]
June 19, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 2, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Albuquerque coffee, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Mexico coffee, Michael Thomas Coffee, Peru coffee, rating coffee, Royal Coffee Importers, Satellite Coffee, The Big Lebowski, Winning Coffee Company
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 [...]
June 17, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 2, United States, cafe, coffee@home Tags: Albuquerque coffee, Batdorf & Bronson, Caffe Umbria, coffee, coffee review, Dancing Goats Espresso, espresso, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Harrar, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, La Marzocco, Napoli Coffee, rating 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 [...]
June 11, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 1, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Albuquerque coffee, Bad Ass Coffee Company of Hawaii, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Hawaii coffee, kona coffee, rating coffee
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 [...]
June 8, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 2, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Albuquerque coffee, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Flying Star, Moka Java, rating coffee, Satellite Coffee, Tanzania coffee, Tanzania Peaberry
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 [...]
March 20, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 2, Rating 3, United States, coffee@home, roaster Tags: Albuquerque coffee, Bolivia coffee, coffee, coffee cupping, coffee review, Costa Rica coffee, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, french press, Michael Thomas Coffee, rating coffee, Sumatra coffee
Beans: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia Yergacheffe
Roaster: Michael Thomas Coffee
Rating: 2 to 3
My flight home from Albuquerque was truly pleasant – the smell of fresh coffee wafted from my bag every time it was bumped. I imagine that my seat neighbors either hated me or wanted to rip open my bag and brew themselves a cup. By [...]
March 17, 2008 Category: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rating 3, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Albuquerque coffee, Bolivia coffee, coffee, Coffee Geek, coffee review, Costa Rica coffee, Diedrich Roaster, espresso, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, Michael Thomas Coffee, Mr. Espresso, rating coffee, Satellite Coffee
Name: Michael Thomas Coffee
Locations: 1111 Carlisle Blvd., SE, Albuquerque, NM
Roaster: Michael Thomas Coffee
Rating: 3 3+ (see update below)
As I pulled up to Michael Thomas Coffee, I couldn’t shake the twisted rendition of The Talking Heads’ “Stay Up Late,” forming inside my head. Dr. Oliver Sacks would probably ascribe my musicaphilia to this cute, cute, brown adobe, [...]
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