Posts Tagged ‘Guatemala’
July 18, 2010
One July weekend, I had the opportunity to combine two of my favorite activities — riding my bike through Manhattan and visiting new coffee shops.
My family was traveling elsewhere, and New York had not yet fallen into the drippy hot torpor that has marked recent days. I rode down the west side a bit, diverted to to the Hudson River trail, then passed through TriBeCa, Chinatown, SoHo and my old East Village stomping grounds before chugging up the East Side — a loop of sorts.
I made a pass by La Colombe Torrefaction, but I had already tried beans from there via B. Koffie, so I decided to check out Kaffe 1668, one of the shops highlighted in The Times a couple of months ago.
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June 5, 2010
It was painful to pass so close to Stumptown at the Ace Hotel without stopping, but I was glad I did, finding myself off the lobby of another boutique hotel, the Gershwin, in a different temple to caffeine — Birch Coffee. I had been wanting to visit after noticing it on The Times’s list of the best of the new coffee cafes. It was love at first visit.
The decor gave me a warm feeling right away. True, you’re not going to find a half-dozen varieties of obscure single origin coffees from as many countries, as you would a couple of blocks away, but there are chairs and stools, something Stumptown eschews. And food. And wine. And beer. And a lending library upstairs.
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Tags: Ace Hotel, Birch Coffee, Coffee Labs Roasters, Coffee!, computers, drinks, espresso, Flatiron, Gershwin Hotel, Guatemala, India, Monsooned Malabar, Museum of Sex, Nicaragua, NYC, NYT, Stumptown
October 11, 2009
I’ve enjoyed a number of Guatemalan coffees — the Finca La Folie from Ritual Roasters, Itzamna from Intelligentsia, the Nimac Kapeh and the Soma blend from Barismo — so I picked up these beans on another side trip to Stumptown’s Manhattan location at the Ace Hotel in the 20s. As always, the service was fast and pleasant, and I received a complimentary coffee because I was buying beans. (I was also playing around with Foursquare and its iPhone app, and discovered that there’s a fierce battle to become “mayor” of this location.)
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Tags: Barismo, Coffee!, drinks, espresso, Foursquare, Guatemala, Intelligentsia, iPhone Apps, Stumptown, technology, Twitter
August 10, 2009
This is the second of the three coffees I bought about a month ago on a trip to the Silver Lake outpost of Intelligentsia in Los Angeles and have been enjoying in the weeks since. (Earlier, I wrote about Itzamna from Guatemala.) I was guzzling this, both as espresso and regular coffee, and it was my impression that it worked better as a regular cup. The name translates as “the turtle,” and, alas, this “in season” offering may be sold out now. I’ll have to savor the last bit left in the bag.
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Tags: Coffee!, espresso, Guatemala, Intelligentsia, Honduras, Geoff Watts, La Tortuga
August 9, 2009
After neglecting my blogging for a while, I figured I ought to make note of three excellent coffees from Intelligentsia in Los Angeles that I have been drinking over the past month or so. On a vacation trip in early July to visit family, we made a detour over to Silver Lake, where I bought a mug and a few different bags of single-source beans. I packed them in my suitcase and returned to New York (carrying coals to New Castle in a sense, since some local shops carry Intelligentsia selections). First up is the selection from Guatemala.
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Tags: Café Grumpy, espresso, Guatemala, Intelligentsia, Los Angeles, Ninth Street Espresso
February 15, 2009
I’ve come to appreciate sellers and roasters who blog about their single-source culinary coffees, giving some background on the beans, how they found them, who grew them. So it was that I learned that “Nimac Kapeh” is (reputedly) a Mayan phrase that means “the place of coffee.”
As I have hinted before, my personal Nimac Kapeh is Café Grumpy on 20th Street in Chelsea, which is where I found myself again on Thursday after my daughter and I were thwarted on a trip to a nearby knitting store, which was closed. I picked up two bags of beans, including this one.
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Tags: Barismo, Café Grumpy, Coffee!, Guatemala, Yirgacheffe
January 17, 2009
This felt like a long week. A lot of meetings. My daughter had her first round of standardized testing at school. Two reporters I rely on the most at work took some days off. Then a plane ditched in the Hudson. We blogged, twittered, stayed up late. It was the rare big story with a happy ending. Way back on Sunday I had bought this bag of beans and, even before the crash landing, I was making myself three fast espresso shots with the Jura to jolt myself awake each morning before rushing out the door. That did not allow much time for contemplation of how these beans compared to the others I’ve sampled and written about.
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Tags: Café Grumpy, espresso, Finca Santa Isabel, Guatemala, Jura-Capresso Impressa F9 Espresso Machine, Rainforest Alliance, Verve Coffee Roasters
December 13, 2008
My quest for the perfect shot of home-made espresso took me to the world of blended concoctions, The name and the white bag with a handy matching clip caught my eye, though on reflection at home the packaging seemed like a waste. It didn’t help that I clumsily tore the bag up, causing beans to fly all over the kitchen.
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Tags: Barismo, Café Grumpy, Cardenes, Coffee!, drinks, espresso, Guatemala, Jura-Capresso Impressa F9 Espresso Machine, Kenya, Kiandu, NYC
One July weekend, I had the opportunity to combine two of my favorite activities — riding my bike through Manhattan and visiting new coffee shops.
