Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Yesterday Public Radio International’s (PRI) The World aired a broadcast on the Italian espresso: Espresso | PRI’s The World. While every news outlet in America was regurgitating Starbucks‘ publicity over their token three-hour store closure for employee training, reporter David Leveille took a different approach by interviewing the art of the espresso from a distinctly [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_training, gambero_rosso, italy_coffee, sant_eustachio, Starbucks

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Yesterday a friend of a friend (now living in Italy) posted in her blog on the variety of standard coffee offerings you can find at a typical Italian caffè: How to Order an Italian Coffee in Italy — Ms. Adventures in Italy. Also included in the post are a variety of photos, instructions on how [...]

Tags: fair_trade, italian, italy_cafes, italy_coffee, sant_eustachio, to-go-coffee

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I’ve built up a pretty good tolerance for caffeine over the years. This after the (shocking?) truth that I once gave up coffee, and virtually all forms of caffeine, for a couple of years after a personal “purification” experiment following sinus surgery in 2000. It only took a return trip to Rome for me to [...]

Tags: cafe_organica, caffeine, coffee_health, sant_eustachio

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First CoffeeSM is a blog that generally focuses on issues related to CRM, or Customer Relationship Management — and generally not on anything having to do with coffee (go figure). Except today, where David Sims commented on how Starbucks‘ worldwide geographic sprawl has set new standards of customer service for coffeehouses everywhere: On Starbucks, CRM, [...]

Tags: cafe_cleanliness, cleanliness, customer_service, gorbachev_of_coffee, quality_standards, sant_eustachio, Starbucks, tartine_bakery

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The Sunday New York Times Travel section featured an article on Rome and the flavors of Rome in particular: The Bounty of Rome - New York Times. Its author, Mimi Sheraton, opens the article with the thoughts that first come to her mind when someone says “Rome”: Sant’Eustachio il caffè (but of course!). It’s worth [...]

Tags: italy_coffee, lavazza, roberto_ricci, rome_coffee, sant_eustachio, tazza_doro

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Or: A Good Espresso Is Hard to Find
After voluntarily drinking so many overextracted, weak, bitter, and unacceptably poor cups of espresso around the U.S., let alone the world, a few people who know me and my coffee have questioned my sanity. Meanwhile, I have often questioned why anyone should need a site like CoffeeRatings.com in [...]

Tags: cafe_customers, caffe_artigiano, peets_coffee, quality_standards, sant_eustachio, Starbucks, victrola

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