Trip Report: Yountville Coffee Caboose (Yountville, CA)
Posted by TheShot on 17 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew
At its best, Yountville is the New World epicenter for quality food and wine. At its worst, Yountville lays its claim to food & wine prominence through a fabricated culture of European fakery (more on that in a future post). One of the exceptions in town to this latter rule is this this odd curiosity of a coffeehouse.
Opening in 2009, this unusual spot is part of the Napa Valley Railway Inn — sitting on abandoned railroad tracks, surrounded by fixed train cars, and converted into a coffee kiosk that also offers pastries from the nearby Bouchon Bakery Sweetie Pies of Napa. Here there is only outdoor counter seating along a wooden counter with stools overlooking a wheelchair ramp and Washington St.
The shop promotes their use of Ritual Coffee Roasters‘ beans and pulls natural double shots. After giving your order at the order window, the next window down features their three-group La Marzocco Linea and a number of press pots.
The resulting shot — made from Ritual’s Evil Twin blend — has an even, medium-to-light brown crema with a modest thickness and not much texture. The body isn’t very thick either, but it has a good complex flavor of herbs, mild pepper, and some cedar. Served in unique brightly colored Nuova Point cups.
It is a good cup. However, given everything else of quality going into it, it should honestly be better.
Read the review of the Yountville Coffee Caboose in Yountville, CA.
4 Comments »
on 17 Feb 2010 at 4:14 pm +00:00T 1.Vincent Kargatis said …
Sorry for the off-topic comment: If this is the Greg Sherwin I shared a house with in Berkeley on Alcatraz summer 1991 (I think it is), gimme a shout! (Sorry if I couldn’t find contact info within the blog site…)
on 17 Feb 2010 at 4:56 pm +00:00T 2.TheShot said …
Hell, yeah, Vince! How’s my favorite Prince-loving, oil-changing, Rice University alumni jazzman doing?!
Contact info: http://www.coffeeratings.com/html/reviewer.shtml
on 25 Feb 2010 at 2:33 pm +00:00T 3.Lindsey said …
Hi There!
This is Lindsey, owner of the Coffee Caboose! I think I had just arrived at the Caboose when you were taking some photos…. Thanks for coming by!
I’m just trying to correct something that was posted. The pastries at the Yountville Coffee Caboose come from Sweetie Pies of Napa.
Please email me if you have any questions.
Ciao!
Lindsey
on 25 Feb 2010 at 6:12 pm +00:00T 4.TheShot said …
Thanks for the correction, Lindsey. Corrected above.