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My Qwest for Appassionato

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee Business, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, tagged seattle, appassionato, seattle sounders, sounders, espresso cart, qwest field, football, soccer, club wells fargo on March 30, 2009 | Comments Off

Appassionato Espresso Stand…, originally uploaded by andai. This past weekend I was at Qwest Field to check-out the Sounders rout the New York Red Bulls 2-0. It was a great game, although I missed the first score because I was in the middle of ordering an extremely salty, relatively tiny but expensive hotdog and complaining [...]

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FCC’s ‘Free’ Wireless Strategy

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged fcc, fremont coffee company, seattle pacific university, spu, twitter, victrola coffee, wi-fi, wifi, wireless on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I am currently hanging out at Fremont Coffee Company (FCC, not to be mistaken with that other FCC) in the Fremont area of Seattle, enjoying an great 8 oz latte before I head on out to conduct some personal business here in the Fremont area. Since I have my laptop with me, I thought I [...]

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Allegro Coffee @ Whole Foods

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged stella caffé, allegro, allegro coffee, espresso bel canto, beautiful song on March 22, 2009 | Comments Off

One thing I don’t like about Whole Foods is the fact that they do not allow people to take photographs within the store. Now I’m not talking about taking photos of the shelves and stock, that I can sort of understand, but simply no where in the store including in the ‘cafe’ area of the [...]

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Fonté Coffee at Chez Dominique

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged chez dominique, fonté, fonté coffee, fonté micro coffee roaster, harvard exit, seattle on March 21, 2009 | Comments Off

Chez Dominique, originally uploaded by andai. Chez Dominique bills itself as a European style cafe serving European Pastries. Ok, I have to say that is a bit of a stretch… and even though I don’t really want to go into the details about what foods they serve, I will go there every so often to [...]

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Caffè Appassionato by Fisherman’s Terminal

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged seattle, ballard, caffè appassionato, smith brothers farms, fishermen's terminal, magnolia, appassionato blend, beethoven’s blend, caffè espresso, seattle seahawks blend on March 17, 2009 | Comments Off

At least twice a year, I go down to the area by Seattle’s Fisherman’s Terminal to conduct some very necessary business. And every time I’m there, one of the ladies who runs the office will offer me a cup of coffee… which is your ordinary everyday drip coffee with sugar and the powered creamer. And [...]

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