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This AP story ran across the wire yesterday: KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington - Local & Regional - Coffee vendors teaching wholesale customers to brew’em right. It is about espresso training for the competitive professional market. Roasters such as Zoka Coffee Roaster & Tea Co. and Caffe D’Arte of Seattle have been successfully offering weekend training [...]

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Thanks to a regular reader for recently tipping me off to this place.
This unusual café is unique for serving single estate coffees from Venezuela. They obtain their beans from their Arabica Coffee Company in Caracas (not to be confused with the American outfit) and run cafés here and in Beverly Hills. They have a restaurant-sized [...]

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With my kitchen currently getting the bulldozer (i.e., reconstruction) treatment, home espresso operations have come to a screeching halt. What better time to forage for espresso? Last week I reported that Caffé del Doge opens in Palo Alto, and this morning I decided to pay a visit.
This chain of Venetian cafés opened in 2003 (thanks [...]

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I’ve always said that Eton Tsuno of Café Organica is an espresso visionary. Now his, along with Santa Clara’s Barefoot Coffee Roasters, aren’t the only Bay Area cafés to be famous for offering a choice of coffee bean blends for your espresso.
As reported in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (Cetrella owner to bring chowder house to [...]

Tags: barefoot_roasters, Barista, cafe_organica, caffe_del_doge, coffee_choices, eton_tsuno, italy_coffee, palo_alto_coffee, venice

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