Espresso News and Reviews – TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Opening in Sept. 2009, this beachfront café in downtown Kalk Bay bustles with lovers of coffee and baked goods. They’ve adopted a theme based on New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood, which is expressed in NYC imagery on the walls. The tables are pretty classy, actually, and there are often musicians in front along the sidewalk [...]

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Just to prove my point about how the French get away with coffee atrocities while profiting from an undeserved reputation for being such café sophisticates, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse in the new Sarkozy era: Artsick > Other > New Grounds in Coffee: The French Onion Roast. In an unholy [...]

Tags: bitterness, coffee_marketing, espresso_drinks, french_coffee, french_onion_roast

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Today’s Toronto Star featured an article on the growth of Toronto area independent coffee shops (many of which call themselves “espresso bars”, per the article): TheStar.com – living – Toronto’s love affair with espresso bars heats up. Toronto now has a mixture of established independent espresso bars and a growing array of newer ones. (A [...]

Tags: barista_championships, canada_coffee, customer_service, espresso_drinks, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines, toronto, toronto_cafes, toronto_coffee, verismo

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The business world is fraught with a number of ironies. One of the bigger ironies is that all good businesses must do ridiculous things that detract from the very core things that made them good in the first place. Big, public businesses do this in an effort to sustain the growth figures demanded by Wall [...]

Tags: 4_dollar_coffee_myth, barista_championships, espresso_drinks, flavored_coffees, product_development

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