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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 13, 2010 Category: cafe, California, Rating 4, roaster, San Diego, United States Tags: Bird Rock Coffee Roasters, coffee, coffee review, espresso, La Jolla coffee, La Marzocco GB/5, rating coffee, San Diego coffee, Yemen Coffee, Yemen Haraz
Name: Bird Rock Coffee Roasters Location: 5627 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla CA Roaster: Bird Rock Coffee Roasters Rating: 4-
As I pointed out in my Caffe Calabria review, San Diego doesn’t seem to have a whole lot to offer in terms of world class cafes. Caffe Calabria is a good start but [...]
December 10, 2010 Category: cafe, California, Rating 2, roaster, San Diego, United States Tags: Brazil coffee, Brazil Daterra, coffee, coffee review, espresso, La Marzocco Linea, rating coffee, San Diego coffee, Village Coffee
Name: Village Coffee (No web page) Location: 10415 San Diego Mission Road, San Diego, CA Roaster: Village Coffee Rating: 2+
Village Coffee is the kind of operation you’d probably never stumble into. It sits at one end of a relatively nondescript strip mall near Qualcomm Stadium on a small road just off the [...]
December 8, 2010 Category: cafe, California, Rating 3, San Diego, United States Tags: Caffe Calabria, Calabria blend, coffee, coffee review, Elixir Espresso Bar, espresso, Italian Roast, La Marzocco FB/70, rating coffee, San Diego coffee
Name: Elixir Espresso Bar Location: 427 C Street #101, San Diego, CA Roaster: Caffe Calabria Coffee Roasting Company Rating: 3-
From Kansas City, we head to sunny San Diego, where I previously reported on coffee from Caffe Calabria. Elixir is a Calabria wholesale account, conveniently located downtown in a building lobby kiosk with [...]
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 [...]
December 4, 2010 Category: cafe, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Rating 3, United States Tags: Broadway Roasting Company, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Filling Station, Kansas City coffee, Oddly Correct Coffee Roasters, rating coffee
Name: Filling Station Coffee Garage Location: 2980 McGee Trafficway, Kansas City, MO Roasters: Broadway Roasting Company and Oddly Correct Coffee Roasters Rating: 3+
A cafe title that plays on words like The Filling Station flirts with disaster by leading customers to assume the owners are opting for a clever twist on the necessity of [...]
December 3, 2010 Category: cafe, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Rating 3, roaster, United States Tags: Broadway Cafe, Broadway Roasting Company, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Kansas City coffee, La Marzocco Linea, Mexico Chiapas, Mexico coffee, New York TImes New Coffee Bars, Nicaragua coffee, Nicaragua Limoncillo, Nicaragua Mierisch, rating coffee, The Roasterie
Name: Broadway Cafe and Broadway Roasting Company Location: 4106 Broadway and 4012 Washington Street, Kansas City, MO Roasters: Broadway Roasting Company Rating: 3+
While coffee hasn’t quite achieved the feuded-over status of say, barbecue, when it comes to Kansas City cuisine, denizens of this city do have at least two decent sized [...]
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