Posted by TheShot on 09 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Quality Issues
A couple weeks back we visited this café with Tim of espressophile fame. Approaching its North Beach location, you wouldn’t think it would be much different from the others nearby — but you’d be wrong. The espresso here is a real standout in the neighborhood, coinciding with the ownership change in late 2008 to Alex [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
Must be a light news day for the SF Chronicle to pull out an evergreen story like this today: Exploring our love of the bean from the grounds up. But while the Chronical [sic] has published up to 70% of the material in previous articles, the article provides a worthy (albeit brief) examination of SF’s [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 26 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Local Brew
Today’s Daily Californian, an independent student newspaper for the UC Berkeley campus, published an article on Berkeley’s venerable Caffe Mediterraneum: Historic Cafe Grounds For Coffee and Conversation – The Daily Californian. Sure, the coffee isn’t so great here. But for a place that is over 50 years old and is most often credited as the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
With little fanfare, last week Four Barrel Coffee finally graduated out of the ranks of the Malaysian street food experience and opened up its formal café space. So this week we paid a visit to check out the new digs — and update our espresso review. (See: our previous Four Barrel Coffee Trip Report.)
Last year [...]
Posted by TheShot on 31 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Fair Trade
Today’s London Times published something of a book review of a new four-volume series, Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture (Markman Ellis, editor): Smell the coffee – Times Online. It’s a long-winded article. But compared to the British tolerance for long-winded, academic tomes (it clocks in at a whopping 1,840 pages), the article is a walk in the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Café Society, Fair Trade, Starbucks
Today Voice of America News broadcast an executive summary of sorts on specialty coffee consumption in America: VOA News – Good to the Last Drop: Coffee Culture Is Alive and Well in the US. Like many things VOA, it’s spoken in slow and clearly annunciated English. Think the clinical drone of NPR presented at the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 27 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues, Roasting, Robusta
That famous portal for coffee connoisseurs, DailyIndia.com (?!?), keeps the hits on coming. This time it’s the latest installment on the history of coffee: History of Coffee: Part IV – Commercialisation of Coffee.
The so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of coffee lasted from the mid-19th Century to the late 20th Century. In that time, roasted coffee went from [...]
Posted by TheShot on 12 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society
A brief history of coffee from Canada’s Brock University press: Bean there, done that: a coffee timeline. From its Ethiopian origins in 1000 A.D. to today.
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