Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Today we came across a New York Times-syndicated article that alluded to the shortcomings of most home espresso machines: Life: Get off to a healthy start in the morning | juice, cup, milk, divide, servings - OCRegister.com. What attracted us to it was some “unconventional” wisdom about home espresso machines — something we rarely find [...]

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Yesterday’s New York magazine online reviewed the new East Village coffee bar named Abraço: Abraço — New York Magazine Restaurant Review. Just opened Oct. 17th of this year, one of its partners is also famously the former Blue Bottle Coffee Co. barista, Jamie McCormick.
The review also oddly noted, “The thought of ranking coffee bars never [...]

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Today’s New York Times Magazine published an article on the declining design aesthetic of the espresso machine: The Pod People - New York Times. As the author puts it, “Cape Canaveralesque control centers that have replaced those great machines.” And she blames the meteoric popularity of Starbucks, which inspired a great wave of ensuing greed [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_pods, espresso_machines, folgers, ghetto_pods, home_espresso, illy, maxwell_house, nespresso, nyc_cafes, nyc_coffee, revelation_espresso, superautomatic_espresso_machines

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Today’s The Sydney Morning Herald ponders how Australia’s Italian immigrants could bring a culture of appreciation for some of the best espresso in the world, and yet New York City — no stranger to Italian immigrants — is such a puzzling espresso wasteland: Brew ha ha in city that falls short on espresso - Opinion [...]

Tags: australia_coffee, coffee_sizes, nyc_cafes, nyc_coffee, restaurant_espresso, sending_back_espresso

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Until only recently, naming New York City’s best espresso bars was a bit like naming Pauly Shore’s best movie acting roles. For those few espresso bars that now stand out among Gotham’s dysfunctional coffee scene, Gridskipper turned their boundless enamor with the Google Maps API towards a top 8 list: New York Espresso Bars - [...]

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Today New York Public Radio aired a story on the customers of independent coffeehouses and how some of them have become de facto “residents”: WNYC - News - Independent Coffee Shops: Problem Customers and Small Change. When is a café customer patronizing a business, and when are they just deadwood looking for a cheap hostel?

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New York City — that backwater of quality espresso that has long proven, if I may paraphrase Frank Sinatra, “If you can make decent espresso there, you can make it anywhere” — has reportedly been hit by a “wave” (here we go again) of better coffee. Or so says today’s New York Times: Espresso’s New [...]

Tags: coffee_marketing, event_marketing, illy, new_york_city, nyc_cafes, nyc_coffee

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As referenced here in a previous article, Israel knows a little about espresso — and some of that is making its way overseas. One of the stories in New York City this week is the arrival of Aroma Espresso Bar: Israeli coffee chain coming to NY - Travel from Israel, Ynetnews.
A chain of over 70 [...]

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Today’s Boston Globe featured a few good articles on the few espresso purveyors in Greater Boston and New York City who are out to set the standard properly: A shot at perfection - The Boston Globe.
The U.S. East Coast has been in the Espresso Dark Ages for far too long. As quoted in the article, [...]

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Today’s New York Daily News claims “New York is, and always has been, a coffee town.” In the few times I’ve scouted much of Manhattan and Brooklyn in search of good coffee over the past few years, my conclusion is that “New York is, and always has been, a bad coffee town.” Award-winners from New [...]

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