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It’s been a rather sad week for coffee news. An embarrassment, really — with headlines dominated by the ridiculous. There’s Racheal Ray’s TV commercial promoting both Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee and her Death-to-Israel Hamas credentials (though who hasn’t wanted to go jihad on her?). There are vocal members of Christian groups that we now need [...]

Tags: acf_cups, blue_bottle, coffee_backslide, dunkin_donuts, espresso_review, flying_goat, frog_hollow_farm, james_freeman, la_marzocco, napa_cafes, ritual_roasters, Starbucks, torrefazione_italia

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After recently posting on the Flying Goat mothership, the time seemed right to dust off another Flying Goat review I should have published long ago.
This large outlet of “The Goat” (as it is affectionately known by locals), a Healdsburg-based chain café and roastery, is located across from the Santa Rosa train station. Bright and airy [...]

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This started as a small, Sonoma-based chain café and roastery. It has since grown, deservedly, due to its popularity. There are two locations in Healdsburg (the other being the roasting plant, for Phil Anacker’s finest, plus take-out-only coffee at 419 Center St.), one in Santa Rosa, and one soon planned for downtown Napa. The locals [...]

Tags: espresso_review, flying_goat, la_marzocco, to-go-coffee

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The Petaluma Hot List
As I mentioned in a previous post, the 2006 Western Regional Barista Competition was held in Petaluma over this past weekend. Twenty-two baristas from across California and Hawai’i participated in the annual competition — many for their first time. In addition to bringing out some of the best espresso preparation the region [...]

Tags: andy_newbom, barefoot_roasters, barista_championships, cafe_organica, flying_goat, hawaii_coffee, heather_perry, klatch_roasting, la_marzocco, maui_moka, mirage, murky_coffee, pacific_bay_coffee, peaberry, petaluma, ritual_roasters, scaa, stumptown, wrbc

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A barista championship in Petaluma?
Yesterday (Saturday, March 4) I attended my first SCAA barista competition. Held at the Sheraton Sonoma County in Petaluma, the Western Regionals are a competitive prelude to next month’s U.S. Barista Championship. (Petaluma: it’s not just world arm wrestling championships anymore.)
The annual Western Regionals covers competitive baristas across California and Hawai’i, [...]

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It took a moment for me to dig up an online version, but here it is. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the March 2006 issue of Food & Wine Magazine has a special report on coffee: An Obsessive’s Guide to Coffee | Food & Wine.
The editors apparently “spent 410 man-hours tasting 157 coffees and [...]

Tags: awards, barefoot_roasters, best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_organica, cafe_reviews, espresso_machines, flying_goat, grinders, metropolis_coffee, ritual_roasters, stumptown

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A Book About… Local Coffee?!
A couple years ago, after caffeinating myself to dangerously jittery levels in my quest to sample and review every espresso served in the city of San Francisco, I had the idea of publishing my findings in a book. Crazy idea? Probably. I had written and published a book before, so I [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_organica, cafe_reviews, caffe_roma, caffe_trieste, emporio_rulli, flying_goat, quality_standards, ritual_roasters, sf_cafes, zagat

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