Ventoux & Hart: A Coffee Roaster And Cafe Shack Up Together In Seattle
Two long-time professionals with their own distinct visions for coffee are helping each other realize those visions in a small, bustling coffee bar and roastery in Northeast Seattle. Carlos Salmeron’s...
View ArticleSir Charles Charts A Food & Coffee Course in Fitzroy, Melbourne
Way back in the 19th century, Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy boarded a boat from England headed for Australia to take up his assigned post as the tenth Governor of the colony of New South Wales. Word is...
View ArticleBudding Bay Area Roasters Get A Boost At Highwire Coffee
In the last ten years, the Bay Area has become a mecca for nascent coffee roasters looking to make their mark on the exploding specialty coffee scene. It can get crowded, and certainly competitive,...
View ArticleCoffee Roasting In The French Countryside At Caffè Cataldi
While a few years ago you could scoff at the quality of French coffee, that has come to change, and today, there’s a burgeoning specialty coffee movement that’s worthy of recognition. But when the...
View ArticleTokyo DIY At Musashi Kihara’s New Woodberry Cafe
It’s a rainy Sunday morning in the Yoga area of Tokyo. A few locals lazily dot the streets heading to and from the metro, and the majority of stores lining Oyama-Dori are, for the time being, closed....
View ArticleIn Sweden, Reviving A City’s Lost Coffee Culture At Bjorklund’s Kafferosteri
Growing up in a Swedish-American family, I was indoctrinated with the understanding that Swedish coffee was above and beyond anything ever served in the United States. Well before Scandinavian cuisine...
View ArticleInside Commonwealth Coffee’s New Coffee Bar & Roastworks
It’s official: Commonwealth Coffee has put the finishing touches on its shared workspace—emphasis on the shared. The Denver brand’s new retail space, cafe, production area, and roaster are all in one...
View ArticleBlanchard’s Coffee In The Little Big City Of Richmond
Richmond, one of America’s venerable towns, is having a bromance (and womance of course too) with coffee. With a handful of roasters, coffee shops, and neat cafes driving the city’s scene instead of...
View ArticleStarbucks Discontinues Beer & Wine Sales In U.S. Stores
Starbucks is back on the wagon. According to the Associate Press, the company has announced that as of today, it will discontinue its Starbucks Evenings program in over 400 company-owed stores across...
View ArticleAt Long Last: The Intelligentsia Roasting Works In San Francisco
In early 2011, there were rumors that Chicago-based Intelligentsia had big plans for San Francisco. Stories abounded that Doug Zell, the company’s founder and then-president, was on the verge of...
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