Posted by TheShot on 27 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
While I’ve recently found quite a bit to mock from the Los Angeles Times when it comes to coffee journalism, Wednesday they published a series of mostly worthwhile articles about the local coffee scene in their Food Section (”Beyond Latte”).
Particularly worthwhile is a quick summary of notable neighborhood coffee haunts in the Southland: calendarlive.com: THE [...]
Posted by TheShot on 21 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
A friend and CoffeeRatings.com reader, Jeremy Nisen, occasionally writes for SFist — which many rightfully recognize as San Francisco’s best local blog. (Jeremy interviewed me for it earlier this year.) Yesterday he pointed me to his most recent article on the site: SFist: Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use?.
In it, Jeremy [...]
Posted by TheShot on 28 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This outlet of the L.A.-based chain is located on a busy Fillmore St. corner, lined with popular sidewalk café tables and parasols. Inside there are a dozen more tables and a lot of finished, wood grain surfaces — giving it the look of a cheaply remodeled kitchen. There’s even this raised platform in the back [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 16 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Starbucks
Today’s Los Angeles Times reports on the corporate expansion plans of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf: Coffee Chains in Grand Battle to Take No. 2 Spot - Los Angeles Times.
Coffee Bean’s angle? Just looking at the ratio of coffeehouses to residents, Seattle is more than ten times as saturated as California. Thus this L.A.-based [...]