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On the heel’s of Chicago’s informal crowning as America’s caffeine capital, today’s Chicago Tribune published an article that provided a light, unscientific, comparative review of 32 different take-out coffee offerings in the Chicago area: Know your Joe — chicagotribune.com. Instead of the single espresso, the yardstick used at CoffeeRatings.com, the Tribune based their evaluations on [...]

Tags: best_coffee, cafe_reviews, chicago, chicago_cafes, chicago_coffee, drip_coffee, illy, intelligentsia, metropolis_coffee

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This week, Citysearch.com announced that the votes have been tallied once again for their annual “Best Coffee” poll: Best of Citysearch San Francisco 2007 - Best San Francisco Coffee. And is there anything more effective than the annual readers poll for highlighting all the anomalies and flaws of open user review systems? I know I [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_lo_cubano, caffe_greco, caffe_roma, caffe_trieste, citysearch, gibraltar, peets_coffee, tartine_bakery

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I’m a little slow this time around, but not long ago Citysearch.com announced their 2006 readers’ poll winners for the best coffee in San Francisco: Best of Citysearch San Francisco - Best San Francisco Coffee. This is something of an annual tradition, as we reviewed Citysearch’s 2005 coffee winners. (When you think of it, naming [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_lo_cubano, caffe_roma, caffe_trieste, citysearch, coffee_bean_and_tea_leaf, mr-espresso, peets_coffee, ritual_roasters, tartine_bakery, yelp

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The November issue of Chicago magazine reviewed the best straight up cups of coffee available in the Loop: Black Gold | Articles | Archives | Chicago magazine. Not surprisingly, Intelligentsia came out on top.

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A friend and CoffeeRatings.com reader, Jeremy Nisen, occasionally writes for SFist — which many rightfully recognize as San Francisco’s best local blog. (Jeremy interviewed me for it earlier this year.) Yesterday he pointed me to his most recent article on the site: SFist: Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use?.
In it, Jeremy [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, celebrity_chefs, coffee_cupping, coffee_roasters, espresso_tasting, graffeo, grinders, jeremy_nisen, los_angeles, los_angeles_coffee, restaurant_coffee, sfist

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How do you know it’s time to move if you want a decent espresso? Why, when your local paper (here the Arizona Daily Star) overwhelmingly tells you Starbucks is the best thing going in town: Best place for Coffee | www.azstarnet.com ®.
Why is it that so many presumed “respectable” media sources often aspire to such [...]

Tags: arizona_coffee, best_coffee, cafe_reviews, Starbucks, tucson_coffee

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Cafe magazine announced their eigth annual awards for the best cafés in New Zealand: News: The 2006 Best Café Awards [varsity.co.nz].
Topping this year’s awards is Workman’s Café in rural Matamata. But given that the runner up. The Sticky Beak Café in Otatara, doesn’t even have an espresso machine, take these ratings with a grain of [...]

Tags: awards, best_coffee, new_zealand_cafes

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Canada’s The Globe & Mail reported today that a Panamanian coffee, a little-known Coffea Arabica cultivar called Geisha, received a world record auction price at $50.25 a pound (and this is for unroasted green beans, folks): globeandmail.com : Panamanian specialty coffee smashes world price record. A lot of this year’s Geisha rated at 94.6 pts [...]

Tags: auction_coffee, best_coffee, coffee_beans, coffee_pricing, panama_coffee

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This is a rather non-descript French bakery/café. But don’t let that fool you. It has won numerous “best bakery” awards in the area and is immensely popular. (And yes, even Martha Stewart paid a visit here just a week ago.) It is also notorious for its Soviet-style bread lines, which run long out the door [...]

Tags: best_coffee, citysearch, coffee_brewing, espresso_review, french_coffee, la_marzocco, mission, mr-espresso, nuova_point, tartine_bakery

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In addition to An Obsessive’s Guide to Coffee, Food & Wine Magazine’s March 2006 issue also put forth a taste test to list their Top 12 boutique roasters: Taste Test | Food & Wine.
It’s a tight list, but all are great roasters.

Tags: best_coffee, coffee_roasters

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