Posted by TheShot on 24 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
The travel section in today’s New York Times featured an article on Rio de Janeiro coffee bars: Coffee Bars in Rio de Janeiro - Travel - New York Times.
Brazilian botequins — sort of café/lunch counter/bistro combinations — can sometimes be pretty awful. Despite Brazil’s esteemed coffee status — this is a nation where the word [...]
Posted by TheShot on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Starbucks
Today the Associated Press reported that Starbucks entered the Brazilian market with two cafés in São Paulo: Starbucks enters competitive Brazilian coffee market with 2 Sao Paulo stores - Business - International Herald Tribune.
Starbucks demonstrated success at establishing over 100 cafés in Mexico, which is generally not known as a coffee-drinking (let alone espresso-drinking) nation. [...]
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 06 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
Here’s an item in today’s news: Nestle reportedly to open luxury coffee shop in Brazil - MarketWatch. In some parts of the world, Nestlé’s Nespresso system, at least on the surface, appears to be making money hand-over-fist for them. Part of Nestlé’s strategy has been to open up Nespresso stores in places such as Geneva, [...]
[view full post]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 | [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 26 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Foreign Brew
This is as good as a General Douglas MacArthur impersionation as you’ll ever get from me. After three weeks of touring most of central and northern Portugal, I’ve finally returned to the Bay Area.
The good news? I have many stories and photos to convey on the status and quality of espresso in Portugal as a [...]
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