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		<title>Trip Report: Carmel Belle (Carmel, CA)</title>
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Established on this spot in 1955, Paolina&#8217;s operated as Carmel&#8217;s oldest running Italian restaurant for over 50 years. It was little more than a cafeteria-style indoor food counter, though they used a decorative, three-group, manual, brass eagle Rancilio machine with &#8220;Paolina&#8217;s&#8221; detailed on the back. The espresso may not have been memorable, but their machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/carmel-belle/</link>
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		<title>Coffee liqueur: a little branding might do ya</title>
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Thanks to a helpful reader who today pointed out this find to us: Just Bottled: “Firelit” Blue Bottle Coffee Liqueur &#8211; Ünnecessary Ümlaut. If Starbucks is good enough for the booze bottle, why not Blue Bottle Coffee? Apparently that&#8217;s the question asked by the folks behind Firelit, a new coffee liqueur made from Blue Bottle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/blue-bottle-coffee-liqueur/</link>
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		<title>New York discovers decaf that doesn&#8217;t suck</title>
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On the continuing theme of New Yorkers being years behind on their coffee trends, yesterday the New York Times published an article on the improving quality of decaffeinated coffees: New Breed of Brewers of No Buzz &#8211; NYTimes.com. It is a slightly updated and expanded version of an L.A. Times piece we wrote about in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/new-york-discovers-decaf/</link>
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		<title>New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously (no, this time they really, really, really mean it)</title>
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A fine line exists between the point where you&#8217;ve truly arrived and the point where you&#8217;d like everyone else to believe that you&#8217;ve truly arrived. It&#8217;s analogous to comparing &#8220;old money&#8221; and &#8220;new money.&#8221; While old money supposedly maintains a low profile and doesn&#8217;t feel the need to prove their status, new money pulls up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/nyc-coffee-debutantes/</link>
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		<title>Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better?</title>
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Stirring a bit of the coffee world today is this piece from TIME magazine: Stumptown Coffee vs. Starbucks: Portland, Seattle Rivals &#8211; TIME. If Josh Ozersky&#8217;s headline of &#8220;Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better?&#8221; seems oddly familiar, it&#8217;s because his article conceptually (and shamelessly) recycled Ethan Epstein&#8217;s piece for the New York Press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/stumptown-vs-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>Trip Report: Special Xtra</title>
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This is one of the latest in a chain of hole-in-the-wall coffee kiosks from locals Kirk Harper and John Quintos. After Kirk and John got out of operating the defunct 330 Ritch Street nightclub after many years, they took their obsession with Lambretta motor scooters and opened Cafe Lambretta in Nob Hill a few years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/special-xtra/</link>
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		<title>The Return of the Coffee Middlemen</title>
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Just when you think the profession of the coffee &#8220;middleman&#8221; was on its way out in this era of the Internet, in come a number of entrepreneurs trying to reintroduce them. What we&#8217;re talking about are consumer retailers that intermediate the sale of roasted coffee &#8212; with examples that include Citizen Bean, GoCoffeeGo (see Man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/retail-roasted-coffee-aggregators/</link>
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		<title>Trip Report: Caffeinated Comics Company</title>
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Coffee is as universal a beverage as you can find in this country, and yet countless special interest groups seem to identify with coffee as it were their own exclusive thing. This identification may have a lot to do with a modern culture that values hype and hyperactivity &#8212; and associates that most with caffeine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/caffeinated-comics-company/</link>
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		<title>Yountville Espresso</title>
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It&#8217;s the kind of statement sure to earn protests from many a New Yorker: some consider Yountville, CA to be the culinary capital of America.
An outrageous assertion? Not necessarily. At the heart of the Napa Valley wine country, Yountville is home to what many call the nation&#8217;s greatest restaurant in The French Laundry. It also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/yountville-espresso/</link>
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		<title>Trip Report: Bardessono (Yountville, CA)</title>
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For all of Yountville&#8217;s culinary celebrity, some of the best espresso in town can be found in this bizarre complex. Opening in early 2009, Bardessono is a hotel/spa/restaurant thing that seems to ooze more sculpture and running water fountains per square foot than the rest of Yountville. And that&#8217;s saying something.
The complex is LEED Platinum [...]]]></description>
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