Posted by TheShot on 24 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Opinions are like… Well, let’s just say that everyone’s got one. And when it comes to America’s best coffee cities, Travel + Leisure magazine recently published theirs: America’s Best Coffee Cities – Articles | Travel + Leisure. The article opens with a rather puzzlng personal endorsement of Steps of Rome in SF’s North Beach, where [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Good coffee cultures are exported. Starbucks grew by churning out a mutant strain of Italian coffee culture by the thousands. Fifteen years ago, we saw cafés in Prague that boasted “Seattle style lattes.” And while New York City is beating its chest lately over its recent coffee prowess — emulating one of its most famous [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
Must be a light news day for the SF Chronicle to pull out an evergreen story like this today: Exploring our love of the bean from the grounds up. But while the Chronical [sic] has published up to 70% of the material in previous articles, the article provides a worthy (albeit brief) examination of SF’s [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Roasting
In a joint press release oddly issued today — about 15 months after the fact — SF’s own Graffeo coffee was featured in National Geographic‘s 2006 book, The 10 Best of Everything: ClickPress | Graffeo Coffee featured in National Geographic’s book “The 10 Best of Everything”. Also noted in the press release, Graffeo’s coffee is [...]
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