Posted by TheShot on 16 Mar 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
Taking up the space that was formerly Daniel Creamery and its cheese production, the Summit has tall ceilings in a wide open space converted for café and art space use. The main seating area is littered with rectangular tables and chairs with plenty of wall outlets and laptop zombies — making you feel like you [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 11 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine
The name is “Ma’velous”. We’re not sure if this is a New Yorker thing — like when Monday Night Football legend, Al Michaels, tries to pronounce the ‘h’ in the word “huge.” But the owner, Phillip Ma, is a self-fashioned coffee geek with apparently enough money for high-end coffeemaking toys but no real prior training [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 27 May 2010 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting, Starbucks
We wrap up our brief series on Seattle’s espresso and coffee culture with a few observations. First, it had been way, way too long since our last visit. Twelve years in fact. Which is all the more ridiculous given the kind of coffee tourists we’ve become. It was 15 years ago that I attended graduate [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 19 May 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Roasting
Now that we’ve been told Seattle espresso is passé — with self-proclaimed Third Wave aficionados holding their nose at the (former) Queen City’s “Oh So Last Wave” reputation — we recently visited a variety of Seattle espresso bars. This is the first post of a coming series on Seattle cafés. We hope this series will [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Quality Issues
One of coffee’s big stories of the past year has been the seemingly sudden discovery and public awareness of Fair Trade coffee. Twenty years after the founding of Equal Exchange, Fair Trade coffee awareness reached critical mass this year in the U.S., the U.K., and many other nations around the world. This awareness began with [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew
Every once in a while it becomes necessary to celebrate an arbitrary milestone. And we have one today: for the first time, CoffeeRatings.com reached 500 active espresso ratings for San Francisco. What’s so arbitrary about it? For one, the 500 milestone was actually passed many months ago. While CoffeeRatings.com‘s focus has been San Francisco proper, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Restaurant Coffee
The Staten Island Advance (Staten Island has news?!) published an article today that heralds the arrival of tea as America’s new hot beverage of choice over coffee: Tea time. For all the Oolong Frappucino and Chai Latte lovers out there, hey — more power to you. These are good times with more options. But before [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 04 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Roasting
I’ve built up a pretty good tolerance for caffeine over the years. This after the (shocking?) truth that I once gave up coffee, and virtually all forms of caffeine, for a couple of years after a personal “purification” experiment following sinus surgery in 2000. It only took a return trip to Rome for me to [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 May 2006 | Tagged as: Roasting
Today’s Spokane Journal of Business featured a lengthy article on Terry Patano, co-owner of the Coeur d’Alene, ID café and the esteemed word-of-mouth roaster, DOMA Coffee Roasting Company: Consumed by coffee – Spokane Journal of Business. Not only is Terry a detail-oriented roaster who is heavy into preparation, but he’s an everyday reader of TheShot [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Local Brew
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle gives some pre-USBC competition pep rally props to local baristas Ryan Brown and Gabe Boscana of Ritual Roasters: SAN FRANCISCO / Pouring in the rain, they are the hot shop / Regional finalists in barista contest head to national championships for $1,000 prize The pair are heading out to Charlotte, NC [...]
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