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Mioposto Caffè e Pizzeria and Caffè Vita Espresso?

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, tagged caffè d'arte, caffè e pizzeria, caffè umbria, caffé del sol, mioposto, mioposto caffè & pizzeria, mioposto caffè e pizzeria, mount baker, mt baker, pizzeria, seattle, starbucks, Torrefazione, torrefazione italia, usa, Washington State on July 15, 2009 | Comments Off

Mioposto Latte, originally uploaded by andai. I happened upon Mioposto Caffè e Pizzeria totally by chance while I was up and about and passing through the neighborhood of Mount Baker. It all started while I was driving along the Lake Washington Blvd just to the south of I-5. After a bit of driving I decided [...]

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The TASTE Café at SAAM

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged Torrefazione, starbucks, volunteer park, sam taste Café, taste Café, sam, seattle art museum, seattle asian art museum, saam, torrefazione italia, torrefazione italia coffee, perugia, perugia blend, seattle's best, bruce lee on November 25, 2008 | Comments Off

The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) up on Capital Hill by Volunteer Park runs a little ‘cafe’ that includes a little espresso cart that reminds me of the days when I first got into the latte habit. It reminds me of the time some years back when my friend was a barista working also at [...]

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Cafe Umbria in Pioneer Square

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged caffè migliore, caffè umbria, doppio espresso, latte, scuie, starbucks, Torrefazione on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The last time I had coffee at this particular location was late in 2004. At that time, this location was the main coffee store for Torrefazione Italia. Since then things have changed, Starbucks through some acquisitions ended up owning Torrefazione and eventually shut down the stores*… I don’t know what possessed them to do so [...]

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Sciue, Clearly Vancouver’s Best Coffee

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged good & fast, pane romano, Rome Italian Italy, Sciue, shoe-eh, starbucks, Torrefazione on August 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Sciue Coffee, originally uploaded by andai. Sciue is probably my hands down favorite ‘coffeehouse’ in Vancouver BC. Sciue, pronounced Shoe-eh is actually Italian (or Roman) slang for Good & Fast… This excellent Italian bakery Caffè was started by two Italians from Rome, Davide Bonamici and Alessandro Fonseca. Davide was one of the former directors of [...]

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The Children of Torrefazione

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged caffè migliore, caffè senso unico, caffè umbria, migliore, Sciue, Senso Unico, Torrefazione, Umbria on July 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Torrefazione Coffee, originally uploaded by andai. One of the best business decisions Starbucks made a couple of years back was to buy Torrefazione, Seattle’s gourmet coffee chain. Right after this, the company then turned around and made one of the worst business moves… shutting down the Torrefazione stores. I was not excited when I heard [...]

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