USA Today's Top 10 Coffee Spots
USA Today's March 2nd "10 Great" feature "10 great places to get jazzed about great java." Coffee reviewer Kenneth Davids made the recommendations, so it's no surprise to find some winners on there.
Intelligentsia is one of the first high-end roasters I came across when I started exploring coffee seriously. I've had a few occassions to try their famous Black Cat espresso blend and enjoyed visiting one of their Chicago stores last spring. Portland's Stumptown and Seattle's Zoka are two I've tried in tastings but not visited personally, though I tried quite a bit of the latter a few weekends ago at Washington, DC's Coffee Fest trade show. (If you're in San Francisco, you can get Stumptown coffee and espresso at the wildly successful Ritual Roasters on Valencia.) Also in San Francisco, Caffe Trieste is worth visiting for the history and authentic Italian feel.
Other than a single shot of Terroir espresso and one visit to a Peet's in Chicago, I don't have experience with the rest. Anyone here who has?
[Cross-posted on Eternal Recurrence.]
Comments
Wait?! There was a trade show in DC? And I missed getting some Zoka's coffee locally! God damn it!
By the way...what's the best place locally to get some flavored coffees? How come most of the roasters in the area don't have any flavored coffees? Are they considered gaunche?
Posted by: bitchkittie | March 7, 2006 11:44 AM
Cafe Dante and Cafe Reggio are both well worth a visit if you're in NY and want to sample what the Real Thing was like back in the old days, because they haven't changed much. But there are still plenty of authentic Italian coffee houses in the Village. Some now populated mostly by college students from NYU and the New School; some still populated at least partly by genuine Mafia characters.
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March 9, 2006 6:13 AM