Tag Archive 'texas_coffee'

Trip Report: Patika Coffee (Austin, TX)

Posted by TheShot on 15 Mar 2012 | Filed under: Beans, Foreign Brew, Machine

My brother lived in Austin years ago, and the town has changed a lot since then. That is, besides the construction of a fence and pillars at the North Congress Ave. end of the Great Walk in front of the Texas state capitol — to prevent people like my brother from accidentally driving vehicles down [...]

Trip Report: Caffé Medici (Austin, TX / downtown)

Posted by TheShot on 12 Mar 2012 | Filed under: Add Milk, Beans, Foreign Brew

Last week we were down in Austin, TX for the first time in over a decade. We managed to do just a little coffee exploration downtown. However, we were primarily there attending the SXSWedu conference. No, that’s not SXSW — once a cool independent music conference 20-25 years ago that’s now a bloated, corporate-sponsored wankfest [...]

Mad Flavor in Austin: good espresso in a fallen world

Posted by TheShot on 28 Oct 2006 | Filed under: 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 | [...]