Tag Archive 'restaurant_coffee'
Posted by TheShot on 24 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
Regular readers here are familiar with our squawking about Slow Food in this blog for almost three years now. You might even recall our pilgrimage to the Slow Food mothership in Bra, Italy last October. But in case you haven’t seen the orange and black posters everywhere, next weekend Slow Food comes to America for [...]
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Tags: andrew_barnett, coffee_bar, ecco_caffe, restaurant_coffee, ritual_roasters, slow_food
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Posted by TheShot on 26 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Restaurant Coffee
Foodie rag gone online, Saveur.com, recently published a series of coffee-themed articles in conjunction with the SCAA. One of the articles lamented American restaurants’ continued one-dimensional treatment of coffee: Nothing ‘Regular’ About It – Saveur.com. “‘Regular’ coffee?! The appetizer alone rated five adjectives,” writes reporter Jim Munson. We’ve expressed this very same lament here a [...]
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Tags: australia_coffee, clover_brewer, coffee_choices, maxwell_house, restaurant_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 04 May 2008 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Starbucks
Last week, the Contra Costa Times published an article announcing the Bay Area arrival of McDonald’s specialty coffee drinks: McDonald’s new coffee drinks ignite breakfast wars – ContraCostaTimes.com. Of course, none of this info is really new, so we’re a bit perplexed over how someone can “ignite” something with a two-year-long fuse. But the article [...]
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Tags: consumer_marketing, fast_food_coffee, mcdonalds, restaurant_coffee, Starbucks, the_espresso_quest
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Posted by TheShot on 26 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
Before we start reviewing the espresso in India, it’s about time we wrap things up on our recent coffee excursion to Hawaii’s Big Island. Hawaii is the only coffee-growing state of the Union (as they say: sorry, Puerto Rico is a territory), which makes it a uniquely American place to both sample the local espresso [...]
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Tags: big_island, big_island_coffee, cafe_reviews, clover_brewer, french_press, hawaii_cafes, hawaii_coffee, kona_coffee, restaurant_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 16 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
Having a wife who runs her own private supper club (for which I am the front-of-the-house/”beverage guy”), I’ve been known to occasionally read the goings-on in the food world. This week, my wife introduced me to a post from a renowned food writer, Michael Ruhlman, who recently wrote about the virtues of percolator coffee: ruhlman.com: [...]
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Tags: drip_coffee, filter_coffee, food_savant-coffee_idiot, michael_ruhlman, mr_coffee, percolator, restaurant_coffee, thomas_keller
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Posted by TheShot on 20 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
Promising news for anyone who takes the gamble of ordering prepared coffee in restaurants: the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has recently announced a partnership with Durham, NC’s Counter Culture Coffee to develop a coffee curriculum: newsobserver.com | Coffee partnership forms. (Press release from last week.) Unlike the closer-to-home CCA (California Culinary Academy) — which [...]
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Tags: coffee_cupping, counter_culture_coffee, restaurant_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Restaurant Coffee
Earlier this week, the SF Chronicle ran a piece on the escalating coffee wars among area restaurants: What’s New: Restaurants brewing up gourmet blends. With the likes of the SJ Mercury News running front-page stories this week on the coffee war between McDonald’s and Starbucks, hopefully places that sell $18 hamburgers might try to outdo [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, french_laundry, kopi_luwak, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Restaurant Coffee
The post title is the question of the day. If I may paraphrase an old quote from a previous post — where we asked, “How does the fool who knows nothing about wine impress his guests?” — the answer is: by buying the most expensive coffee they can find — along with a good story [...]
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Tags: equator_estate, french_laundry, kopi_luwak, panama_esmeralda, restaurant_coffee, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
An article in yesterday’s Dublin Independent perhaps thought it was exalting the Nespresso espresso. However, it did more to underscore how clueless high-end restaurants are when it comes to espresso quality: The cult of Nespresso – Food & Drink, Lifestyle – Independent.ie. Pre-ground coffee that has aged for weeks in plastic pods since the second [...]
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Tags: black_gold, fair_trade, nespresso, nestlé, restaurant_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 22 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
La Colombe Torrefaction, a Philadelphia-based roaster that’s been something of an East Coast analog to Blue Bottle Coffee Company, has regularly received national recognition for the quality of their roasted coffee. But on the West Coast, La Colombe may as well be based out of Belgium; they’re largely unknown around these parts. In an attempt [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_pods, coffee_roasters, ecco_caffe, equator_estate, la_colombe, restaurant_coffee
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