Archive for the ‘coffee’ Category
Friday, December 7th, 2007
I visited the new downtown Clayton location on the first and second days of operation last week, and although I'm diligently typing up my experiences of that, I realize now I forgot to slip out that I did find, after scouring Google, the Cup of Excellence Coffee they purchased was ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Did you know St. Louis food bloggers have love for you. Well we do, and today we're all posting our lists of 10 local food gifts.
Here you can find the other participants lists. There's sure to be some overlap, and it will be fun to see where it ...
Posted in Illinois, beer, coffee, farmers' markets, groceries, restaurants | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Mac commented: "I've never seen someone so happy about a coffee maker."
Here's an excerpt from a recent article in The Economist that helps to clarify why I'm so excited about the previously mentioned Clover.
In the past decade, changes in the way the finest coffee is produced and ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I emailed Kaldi's after my post yesterday asking about their Clover coffee machine, and what I found out, is that after a year of occasionally asking them when it would show up in a store, at long last, it's in the new Clayton location which opened today.
And because almost ...
Posted in coffee, farming | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Kind of old news but Kaldi's Coffee is expanding the empire
Here:
Kaldi’s Coffeehouse – Columbia
29 S. Ninth Street
Columbia, MO 65201
Phone: (573) 874-2566
And Here:
Kaldi’s Coffeehouse – Clayton (downtown)
187 Crondelet Plaza
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone: (314) 726-2900
I saw the one being built in Columbia and it was like the other branded chain-like ones.
The reason for ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Why in 2007 an establishment that bothers to have a non-smoking section situates it in such a manner that you have to walk through the smoking section to get to it I will never understand. And that's exactly what happened before taking this picture after making it safely to ...
Posted in coffee, reviews | 7 Comments »
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
If you're unfamiliar, let me tell you a quick story -- at least as I understand it:
A man meets a woman in San Francisco. They both go to baking school. They fall in love and move to Seattle to follow their joint-love of coffee. Then, tired of being in ...
Posted in Illinois, coffee, restaurants, reviews | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
As previously mentioned, Whole Foods carries some coffee from the Chicago based roaster of award winning coffees, Intelligentsia.
While they always stock the Black Cat Espresso and a blend I forget the name of, the other choices rotate based upon seasonality. While that might sound strange considering how we see ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
They said "Kayak's is great!"
I said "worst yet.'
This shop is the most chainlike non-chain I've ever been in St. Louis. Is it not also sort of weird to have a Klondike themed establishment here? Regardless, they almost manage to make up for this fact by playing music that ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
As I'm going to Wild Oats tonight to listen to author Anna Lappe speak on the topic "What Are We Feeding The Kids? (And Ourselves?)" I figured I'd stop into Northwest Coffee and give them another shot.
So I've ordered and here I sit awaiting my cappuccino. I've been ...
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