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Has it really been a couple weeks since our last third wave rant? A few years after we thought this topic was dead and buried, lately newbie third wave coffee articles have been cropping up in local newspapers like teenage vampire profiteers. London, Oakland, and now Vancouver: Indie cafés perfectly poised to quench coffee aficionados’ [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, cafe_cleanliness, coffee_chains, coffee_marketing, consistency, mom-and-pop-coffee, peets_coffee, quality_standards, ritual_roasters, sammy_piccolo, sf_cafes, Starbucks, third_wave, vancouver_cafes

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Today’s post is really a series of news citations where coffee-making rivals duke it out in various venues. First we have New York City-based BlackBook praising a rather healthy list of cafés to check out in Vancouver, BC: Vancouver: Top 10 Cups of Coffee – BlackBook. Sure, they seem to say more about waffles and [...]

Tags: nyc_cafes, rome_cafes, Starbucks, vancouver_cafes

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Seattle’s Coffee Fest trade show ended yesterday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article announcing the winners of its “Millrock Free Pour Latte Art competition” (isn’t that a mouthful?): Artistic cup of joe brings home $5,000 prize. Top honors and $5,000 of prize money went to Layla Emily Osberg of Vancouver, BC’s Blenz Coffee — where [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_championships, coffee_fest, espresso_vivace, latte_art, macchiato, milk_frothing, vancouver_cafes

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From yesterday’s Vancouver Sun, the praise is rolling in for Vancouver’s 49th Parallel Roasters, a new coffee destination established by Vince and Mike Piccolo (the former of Caffè Artigiano fame): Vancouver’s new cafe wins best coffee in region. Just don’t ask what Krups is doing as self-appointed tastemakers of good espresso via the annual Krups [...]

Tags: 49th_parallel, caffe_artigiano, milwaukee_cafes, sammy_piccolo, vancouver_cafes, vancouver_coffee

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Today’s Globe and Mail (Canada) reported on the arrival of the $15-a-cup (CAN$) Hacienda la Esmeralda Especial at Vancouver’s Caffè Artigiano: globeandmail.com: Pay up and smell the coffee. [alternative link: The Tyee — Coffee Hits $15 at the Pump.] Kopi luwak pretenders, take notice. The Panamanian coffee won the 2007 Roasters Guild Cupping competition at [...]

Tags: caffe_artigiano, coffee_prices, panama_coffee, roasterie, scaa, vancouver_cafes

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Knowing the difference between a good and bad espresso can be a curse to many a former barista. Or so says a former barista in today’s Georgia Straight, a popular Vancouver free weekly: Straight.com Vancouver | Best Eating | Locals have much to learn about espresso. The author writes that, “The espresso, as it is [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_championships, caffe_artigiano, canada_coffee, sending_back_espresso, vancouver_cafes, vancouver_coffee

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Some people I know refuse to “speak Starbucks”. Sure, they have coffee beverages that come in a venti size — even if that literally means “twenty” in Italian (and not as in “twenty trips to the bathroom”). And if you order a latte in Italy, you would get a glass of milk — its literal [...]

Tags: cappuccino, coffee_lingo, macchiato, Starbucks, vancouver_cafes

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