Browsing all posts in February, 2009.

Fun food and upcoming events at Big Momma’s Coffee

I just stopped by Big Momma’s Coffee on Commercial Street to pick up a sandwich. If you like pesto, try the Jacquelin. It’s wonderful — the pesto sauce and focaccia combination are great! It’s even better hot off the panini grill.
While there, I also noticed a new triangular pastry in the case. [...]

Two takes on retail packaging for coffee

What are the chances of two different coffee blogs posting about how coffee should be bagged in the same day?  It was ironic yesterday, so I had to point out the goods.
First, Gimme Coffee did a little post about their coffee bags.  There’s a great photo of the vent that passes gases out of their [...]

Wednesday coffee: Kaldi’s Coffee

This morning I stopped at Kaldi’s Coffee, got a Mayan Mocha with a cinnamon scone and a pecan coconut cookie, and saw my pastor while there

Pecan coconut cookie dipped in chocolate from Kaldi’s Coffee

http://twitpic.com/1brah – If you see a cookie that looks like this at Kaldi’s Coffee, BUY IT – pecan coconut dipped in chocolate.
Sorry it’s a little blurry.  I guess my Blackberry doesn’t have a macro setting.

More photos from my trip to Sinatra’s Coffee Gallery

Sinatra’s Coffee Gallery is a new coffee bar at the southwest corner of National and Chestnut Expressway.  It’s just opened recently, and I popped in this morning to see what it was like.  It has a very swanky feel like a martini bar, but it revolves around coffee instead.  They had Sinatra playing via XM [...]

First trip to Sinatra’s Coffee Gallery

http://twitpic.com/1b9dx – Trying out the new Sinatra’s Coffee Gallery at National & Chestnut Expwy

Afternoon run to The Coffee Ethic

I took an afternoon run to The Coffee Ethic for an afternoon snack. The Colombian coffee was good. The Aeropress advice was better.

Making coffee from melted snow

Again, the GimmeCoffee twitter feed pays off on another great moment in coffee history.
Inspired by Mark Prince at CoffeeGeek, James Hoffmann over at his JimSeven coffee blog decided to try to make coffee using snow as the water source.  There are photos of the beginning stages of the process, although he doesn’t have any brew [...]

Monday coffee: Double shot Americano from the Mudhouse

I drank an Americano from the Mudhouse today on Double Shot Monday — had them make it in their cup instead of my thermal , and it was good

Lifehacker: Brew the best possible coffee without breaking the bank

Over at LifeHacker, which is easily one of the best websites for those wanting to do life just a little bit better, they posted yesterday how to brew the best possible coffee without spending lots of extra money.  It’s a great primer on good coffee.  The basic suggestions (explained in a little more detail) are [...]