Posted by TheShot on 18 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society
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?
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 19 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 15 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Quality Issues
William Dupree, owner of a small business consultancy, published an article today on DailyIndia.com (of all places) about the marketing strategy he developed for a new 3,000 sq ft coffee shop that opened in New York City’s Greenwich Village: A Unique Marketing Spin for a Coffee Shop. Even though the article does not reveal the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 31 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Not entirely unlike my recent reviews of Chicago espresso, one of the upcoming articles in the works for TheShot concerns my largely unsuccessful quest for quality espresso in New York City earlier this year. Without giving too much away in advance, in it I lament why a city that could economically support the upper eschelon [...]
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