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I used to make mixed tapes. I’m not sure what the kids make these days. Imixes? Somehow, that’s just not as meaningful. So I turned my attention to something that seemed to have a bit more personality. I started making coffee maps. Sure, most of them are integrated into the reviews contained in this blog, [...]
December 15, 2010 Category: California, Place, San Diego, United States Tags: coffee, coffee map, coffee review, espresso, rating coffee, San Diego coffee, Zumbar's Coffee and Tea I’ll be spare with my words since I have little to add to my posts on San Diego area coffee other than that I wish I had managed to get to Zumbar’s and to try out the coffee cart outside of the Clairemont Mesa Kaiser offices – the latter simply because it sounds so fun. [...]
December 5, 2010 Category: cafe, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Place, roaster, United States Tags: Black Dog Coffeehouse, Blue Stem, Broadway Roasting Company, Calvin Trillin, coffee, coffee map, coffee review, Crossroads Coffeehouse, espresso, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Company, Kansas City coffee, Kansas City Coffee Map, Latteland, Oddly Correct Coffee Roasters, PTs Coffee Roasting Company, rating coffee, Take Five Coffee Bar, The Filling Station, The Roasterie, Tummy Trilogy, Zoka Coffee Roaster and Tea Company Click here to go to the Kansas City area coffee map.
My relationship with Kansas City cuisine, like so many people not from Kansas City, is tremendously indebted to Calvin Trillin’s Tummy Trilogy. But while that bound edition’s three component parts are tremendously funny, heart-warming and generally brilliant pieces of literature, not to mention a [...]
September 2, 2010 Category: blog management, Place, United States, Virginia, Washington D.C. Tags: Caffe Pronto, coffee, coffee map, coffee review, espresso, espresso map, rating coffee, Washington DC coffee, Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters Having visited only two cafes in the greater Washington, D.C. area, I’m hardly in a place to dispense with anything but hasty generalizations about the D.C. coffee scene. If I did have to dabble in such fallacies, however, I’d comment on the fact that coffee in D.C., like much of the rest of the country, [...]
May 2, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Place, United States Tags: Barismo, Boston coffee, Caffe Fixe, coffee, espresso, Hi-Rise at the Blacksmith House, Maine coffee, Massachusetts coffee, New England coffee, Pavement Coffeehouse, Rhode Island coffee, Simon's Coffee Shop, Taste Coffee House, Terroir Coffee Company
Good things come to those who wait. At least I hope the old adage still holds true. You see, I visited several of Boston’s cafes last summer (and quite a few elsewhere in New England as well), but never ended up writing about them. I’m not sure if it was procrastination or deep-seated indecision, [...]
April 14, 2010 Category: California, event, Greater LA Area, Orange County, Place, United States Tags: coffee, coffee map, espresso, 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 [...]
February 5, 2009 Category: Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Place, the scoop, United States Tags: 9th Street Espresso, Abraco, Barrington Coffee Roasters, Cafe El Beit, Cafe Grumpy, coffee, Counter Culture Coffee, espresso, Gimme! Coffee, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Joe the Art of Coffee, Kaffe 1668, La Marzocco GB/5, Michael Bauer, New York City coffee, New York Times coffee, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, Oren's Daily Roast, Ost Cafe, Plowshares Coffee Roasters, Porto Rico Coffee Roasters, Rohr's Coffee Roasters, Root Hill Cafe, Second Stop Cafe, Simon Sips, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Synesso, Tamp Tamp
A few years ago, I may have been excited about a trip to New York, but it wouldn’t have been for the coffee. I (along with many others) have long lamented New York’s lack of good coffee, especially for a city of its size, density and culinary reputation. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and [...]
January 9, 2009 Category: Louisiana, New Orleans, Place, restaurant, the scoop, United States Tags: Aerobie Aeropress, Bodum, Bourbon Street, Cafe Du Monde, Cochon, coffee, Coffee Roasters of New Orleans, Domiles's, Ecco Caffe decaf espresso, espresso, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Sidamo Koratie, French Quarter coffee, Kahve Royal, Mojo Coffee House, New Orleans coffee, New Orleans Coffee Works, Orleans Coffee Exchange, rating coffee, Rue de la Course, Sucre, Try Me Coffee Mills, Z'otz
My family (wife and daughter plus parents, brother and his partner) spent the Christmas holiday together in New Orleans. We indulged in touristy endeavors – a stroll along the river, the Natchez River cruise, the Audobon Zoo, the Aquarium, and wandering around the French Quarter. We ate some great food including beignets at Cafe [...]
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