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Alimento in the Bay of Plenty

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged latte, tauranga, bay of plenty, new zealand, alimento, coffee supreme, wellington, Oceania on January 29, 2009 | Comments Off

Our guest blogger Tina is German but lives and works in New Zealand. She enjoys the coffee culture in New Zealand and is sending posts of her espresso sojourn There are a lot of cafes in the Bay of Plenty that I like for a number of different reasons. But if I had to pick [...]

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Of Motore Coffee, Vespas Scooters and Helmets

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged caffé del sol, caffé vita, denny triangle, downtown seattle, motore coffee, seattle, vespa on January 22, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the unfortunate things about Motore Coffee is that its location. Well, let me rephrase that. Motore Coffee has a location that is great for many who work down-town in the Denny triangle, unfortunately, that is really not that convenient for me. This is simply because I don’t normally hang out in the Denny [...]

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Btg Coffee on Capital Hill

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged seattle, capital hill, madison market, btg, bedlamite, bedlam/to.go, bedlam, beetlejuice, betelgeuse on January 18, 2009 | Comments Off

Bedlam/to.go aka Btg Coffee is a little, almost nondescript street-side coffee stand that one could easily pass without thinking much about what they may have to offer. Well here is a little known secret about the place. Btg Coffee serves some of the best espresso you’ll ever drink on Capital Hill and I say that [...]

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Alex of The Fresh Pot Places First at NWRBC

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged 2009 nwrbc, albina press, batdorf & bronson, blend coffee, coffee bean international, coffee house 5, competition, dillanos, espresso parts, espresso parts nw, lava java, little red bike café, mon ami café, northwest regional barista competition, nuova simonelli, nwrbc, olympia coffee roasOng, portland, ridgefield, satellite café, scaa, seattle, specialty coffee association of america, stumptown coffee roasters, tacoma, temple theatre, the albina press, the fresh pot, trabant coffee, victrola coffee, zoka coffee, zoka coffee roasters on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Alex Pond (pictured above making his signature drink) of The Fresh Pot won of the 2009 Northwest Regional Barista Competition (NWRBC). Kevin Fuller of The Albina Press and Robbie Britt of Zoka Coffee Roasters came in second and third respectively. These were the top three of the six finalists who battled it out to determine [...]

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Kafeoke for Karaoke and Coffee

Posted in Asia, Beverage Banter, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged Asia, chennai, india, kafeoke, karaoke, laura, lavazza on January 6, 2009 | Comments Off

Our guest blogger Laura is volunteering in India and plans to spend some time in the new year traveling in South East Asia. She is sending posts of her experiences of the Indian and Asian coffee culture. Kafeoke is a coffeehouse-restaurant-karaoke joint-voice school located on the beach in a residential area in south Chennai. [...]

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