Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged canada, Coffee, granville island, habit, habit coffee, hines, hines public market coffee, john sanders, latte, shane devereaux, Vancouver, vancouver BC, victoria, victoria bc on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Habit, originally uploaded by andai.
Even before I went to Victoria this last time, I kept hearing good things about Habit Coffee. One of the readers commented on a previous Victoria BC blog post I had written and he included a list of coffeehouses that I should have visited. For some reason, Habit Coffee kind of [...]
Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged 49th parallel, britich columbia, burnaby, burnaby bc, caffè artigiano, canada, Coffee, government street, gwilym davis, habit coffee, kaladi brothers, latte, murchies, murchies tea & coffee, oregon, portland, private reserve, private reserve espresso blend, sammy piccolo, scuie, seattle, Stumptown, trabant coffee, Trabant Coffee & Chai, Vancouver, victoria, victoria bc, Washington State on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image Title: 143/365 – Coffee break
Originally uploaded by, and used with permissions from kennymatic.
I discovered Caffé Artigiano a few years ago on one of my first trips to Vancouver BC. At that time I really didn’t know much about the coffee they served other than the fact that I thought the coffee was good. [...]
Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged belle epoque, canada, elektra, espresso blend, espresso vivace, government street, la marzocco, latte art, mirage coffee, victoria, victoria bc, vivace on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mirage Signage, originally uploaded by andai.
I first walked by Mirage Coffee attracted by their bizarre sign which is of some woman who looks like the stereotypical Virgin Mary images you tend to see. Being that I live on Capital Hill, the home of everything wonderful and bizarre, I have seen my fair share of signage [...]
Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged afternoon tea, assam tea, british columbia, canada, ceylon tea, chai, china tea, empress, empress hotel, fairmont empress hotel, fine china, keneyan tea, kenya tea, metropolitan tea company, south india tea, tea, the empress blend, victoria, victoria bc on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Empress Tea Cup, originally uploaded by andai.
One of the things that I really wanted to do the first time I visited Victoria BC was to do the old afternoon tea… something you really don’t see in Seattle, the land of all things coffee. At that time, we had considered going to the Fairmont Empress Hotel [...]
Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged caffè umbria, canada, capital hill, Fuel Coffee, gusto crema’, konpira, macchiato, macchiato caffé, pine st, seattle, top pot doughnuts, udon, victoria, victoria bc, victrola coffee on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Umbia at Macchiato, originally uploaded by andai.
Macchiato Caffé or simply Macchiato, is located on the corner of Broughton St and Broad St (entrance) was the first official stop on my second coffee excursion in Victoria BC. I actually passed by Macchiato several times during my first trip to Victoria. I did not however go [...]
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