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STOP #4: CHICAGO, IL
Category: coffee shops & reviews
midwest college & coffee tour (part 2)
midwest college & coffee tour (part 1)
My wife and I took our son on a college tour during his spring break last week. In a sign of increased personal maturity and growth, before we left I acknowledged to them that my coffee obsessions may have at times imposed upon them when we travel (cough cough). So I made an offer, which was accepted: in each city I would pick only one coffee shop to visit and make a thorough inspection as fodder for a blog post, and I would make sure it was not out of the way.
Continue readingnot just a name change
Interesting news via Sprudge, as Toby’s Estate Brooklyn, a well-regarded craft roaster and cafe operator, rebrands itself at Partners Coffee Roasters.
Continue readingguest mini-review: Amargosa Café
Ed: This review is written by my friend Rachel Hayden, whom you may remember from our recent gambol at Car Wash Coffee. Hope you enjoy a different voice.
On our way from Las Vegas to Death Valley on a recent weekend, my husband and I accidentally discovered the Amargosa Café at a crossroads that looks a little like a ghost town. Originally built as an outpost for the Pacific Coast Borax Company, the Amargosa now hosts a small, funky hotel, an opera house, and the café. We actually thought the buildings were abandoned, but we got nosy and decided to poke around. Happily, our curiosity was rewarded with a delicious breakfast and coffee worthy of a mention on this prestigious blog. And, luckily, it happened to be a Friday because the Amargosa is only opened Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Continue readingmini-review: Gregorys & CBD
I’d been meaning to check out Gregorys, a well-reputed New York City chain that has recently established itself in the DC area. I’ve also seen several references to CBD as an additive to coffee drinks, and noticed it at many coffee places in Vermont (which also sold CBD edibles), and wanted to give it a try. Gregorys just happens to offer CBD as an option for its drinks, so I was able to kill two birds with one stone this week.
Continue readingthe jealousy, it is killing me
There’s a barista at Little Red Fox who absolutely kills it with the milk art every time I stop in. #coffeemakinggoals
mini-review: Otto’s Market, Germantown, NY
It gives me great joy to write this post, about finding great coffee in my hometown.
Continue readingwhen is a chain not a chain?
When I was in Milwaukee last summer I visited an outlet of Colectivo Coffee, a local coffee business with 13 cafes in the Milwaukee area, three in Madison, WI, and four (soon to be five) in Chicagoland.
I liked the ambience, the coffee was very good (if not exceptional). Felt like a small, independent cafe, definitely nothing like a shop that’s part of a multi-outlet behemoth.
Continue readinga case study in coffeenomics
I was a bit saddened today, as for the first time I had to mark one of the coffee shops in my guide as closed.
Spiral Press Cafe in Manchester, VT is no more. In fact, it seems to have closed mere days after I visited it this past August. The owner wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper giving his view on why the business went under.
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