Posted on June 9, 2011 by Mike
“Stumptown Coffee Bar located at Battery Place Market in Battery Park City is looking for a barista with the ability to leap buildings in a single bound, eliminate National Debt and keep guests more than satisfied. Well, “keep guests more than satisfied” is more than necessary for this position, but if you can do the [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2011 by Mike
This delivery truck is from Texas circa I don’t know when, and features Direct Trade coffee (sort of) from Duncan Coffee. Duncan was started in 1918 and still exists! They “only buy the top 3% of Arabica beans from around the world to ensure quality” so obviously that’s been the key to their longevity. The MUD [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2011 by Mike
Coming to NYC for the NERBC? Here’s my map of places in Manhattan that you may want to visit. Some places have multiple locations but have only been listed once, and there are many more places in Brooklyn if you’re feeling adventurous. The map is hosted over on NFT so click through for brief descriptors, address details, [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2011 by Mike
Check out this pilot for a new web series called Updating Paige, which promises to be a show about coffee culture. So far it seems to be about a girl named Paige who has Facebook Faceplace drama and works in a cafe, but I did spy a Buono Kettle in the background at the 5:14 [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2011 by Mike
Save the Date: There’s a party being thrown by the sponsors listed above during the NERBC this April, and Dallis Bros is putting an espresso machine and a trip to Brazil on the line during the Latte Art Throwdown. Whoa! Date: April 9th Time: 8pm-Midnight Location: 526 508 W26th St, 5th Floor (the address on [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2011 by Mike
Bear Pond Espresso is having a charity event in Tokyo on March 26th to collect “love and prayers” for those affected by the earthquake. For those that don’t know, Bear Pond’s Katsu Tanaka spent many years living and working in NYC, and the last few taking private barista lessons at Gimme and Counter Culture (and [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2011 by Mike
“Frustrated with grinds in her coffee, ingenious German housewife Melitta Bentz used her son’s school blotting paper to create the first-ever coffee filter in 1908.” Hence the “Melitta” filter and cone. The above is number seven of the nine innovations, but there actually appears to be ten listed in total. [via 9 Innovations That Changed [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2011 by Mike
“Whenever Steve Novak is in San Francisco, he always makes time to get an espresso at the Steps of Rome Caffé in North Beach. “I’m a coffee snob,” says the owner of Honolulu-based management consultancy company PPR Management Services. “And their espresso is the gold standard.”‘ Everyone is an expert, but rarely do the experts agree. [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2011 by Mike
“Mr. Schultz concedes that he can no longer run Starbucks through the Cult of Howard. And he readily acknowledges that he badly misread the economy and underestimated the extent to which his customers would pull back during the recession.” This is a very interesting profile of Schultz and Starbucks. [Starbucks’s Chief Tries to Recapture Its [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2011 by Mike
I definitely disagree with a few of Summer’s minor points here (espresso must be made up of a blend?), but overall this is a very nice piece in Scientific American on brewing pour-overs. [Guest Blog: Science in the neighborhood: How to make really good coffee]
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Posted on February 24, 2011 by Mike
Nice profile of Coava Coffee over in The Kitchn. [Reinventing Coffee: A Visit With Coava & Their Kone Filter | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn]
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Posted on February 21, 2011 by Mike
Nice image of Cafe Grumpy painted with the Brushes app on an iPad. See the rest of the set on Flickr.
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Posted on February 19, 2011 by Mike
This is where I’ll be next week. Surrounded by amazing people on both sides of the counter. See you there? Coffee Common TED
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Posted on February 19, 2011 by Mike
“Everything about The Coffee Foundry – from the small-batch backyard roasting to the methodical coffee preparation – probably seems inefficient to the average on-the-go city dweller. Yet these perceived limitations are exactly what allow co-founders Wilson Park and Norman Mui to hold total control over the experience they offer. Although they’ve been working to perfect [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2011 by Mike
And Gwilym’s idea continues to spread. [photos via BrewMethods]
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Posted on January 21, 2011 by Mike
“Coffee has amazingly intricate flavors and is really just hitting its stride in taste exploration,” Phillips explains. “With a really nice coffee, it takes four months to a year for the coffee to end up in your cup but it only takes the last six minutes of preparation to screw it up.” [via The Art [...]
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