Posted by TheShot on 13 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Back in July we reported on Illy’s strategy for opening licensed Illy Espressamente cafés across Europe. During my travels in Portugal last month, I had the pleasure of encountering my first one in the unlikeliest of places.
In the perimeter wall of the recently remodelled Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno bullfighting arena, this fully owned [...]
Posted by TheShot on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
In my last post on espresso in Portugal, I reviewed a handful of notable cafés in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon. For this installment, I review notable cafés in other parts of Portugal. Namely, futher north … where I generally found the espresso to be even better than that in Lisbon.
Name
Address
City
Espresso [info]
Cafe [info]
Overall [info]
Café Nicola
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Restaurant Coffee
In a previous post, I noted some generalizations about the espresso in Portugal. For this post, I’ve selected a few notable cafés to review in Portugal’s political and cultural capital, Lisbon.
Name
Address
Neighborhood
Espresso [info]
Cafe [info]
Overall [info]
A Brasileira
Rua Garrett, 120
Chiado
6.60
7.00
6.800
Café Nicola
Rua 1° Dezembro, [...]
Posted by TheShot on 03 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Starbucks
Despite Portugal’s prominent historical role in the development of the coffee trade (for example, they introduced coffee production to Brazil), and the degree with which coffee is “interwoven throughout Portugal’s social, literary and economic history”, I’ve found surprisingly little written about the espresso in this small-but-influential coffee nation. Last month I took advantage of some [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Quality Issues, Starbucks
Yesterday Tom Philpott posted about his discovery of a great place for espresso in Austin, TX called Cafe Medici (it opened last month). However, the bulk of his post was on why “it’s getting harder and harder to find great coffee in the U.S.”: Mad Flavor in Austin: good espresso in a fallen world | [...]
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