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The travel section in today’s New York Times featured an article on Rio de Janeiro coffee bars: Coffee Bars in Rio de Janeiro - Travel - New York Times.
Brazilian botequins — sort of café/lunch counter/bistro combinations — can sometimes be pretty awful. Despite Brazil’s esteemed coffee status — this is a nation where the word [...]

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Here’s an item in today’s news: Nestle reportedly to open luxury coffee shop in Brazil - MarketWatch. In some parts of the world, Nestlé’s Nespresso system, at least on the surface, appears to be making money hand-over-fist for them. Part of Nestlé’s strategy has been to open up Nespresso stores in places such as Geneva, [...]

Tags: brazil_cafes, chiado, coffee_pods, home_espresso, lisbon, lisbon_coffee, moka_pot, nespresso, portugal_coffee, superautomatic_espresso_machines

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