Apr 20, 2013

Welcome Back Squatter See Ya Loiter! Café Au Layabout The Writer’s Block American Idle Cafe Room for Mooch 30 Chairs, One Outlet Grubby McMugger’s Coffee Cove Tablesloth’s Cup o’ Jobless Malingerer’s Twitter & Jitter O’Dawdle’s The Afternoon Abyss The Perking Lot Space Invaders Coma Macchiato’s Battery Park Dilly-Dally’s Couch...

Oct 17, 2012

Saw one of these this morning at Fourbucks. The Cuppow is a grownup sippy-cup lid for a canning jar. An obvious idea after you’ve seen one. Add a beer-can cover (or handmade Adirondack Beverage Sweater!) and you’re all set for brand-free hipster beverage consumption! Update: If you’re buying this, then you might as well surrender and get a...

Jan 23, 2012

Connoisseur Osier Jean steps into the sterile room, pauses and clears his mind. He sniffs, slurps and swirls, allowing his senses to take in the richness...

Oct 14, 2011

"What we are seeing as a company, as we look 10, 20, 30 years down the road, is a potentially significant risk to our supply chain, the coffee bean."

Jul 10, 2011

From the Amish toystore that is Lehman’s comes this wonderfully tactile canning jar coffee grinder. Plug it onto the top of any Mason, Ball, or other canning jar, and grind away. With its gleaming glass jar and hand-built walnut cap, this mill looks beautiful on your counter, and it works just as well. A fully adjustable conical-burr grinding mechanism...

May 17, 2011

The il Tiro Espresso Gun is an espresso machine design concept inspired by a revolver pistol.

Jan 30, 2010

Jennifer Ward writes in The Atlantic: In the 18th century, when Haiti was still a French colony, the country grew a grand cru of its own: beans of the original arabica typica varietal, the first species of coffee to be cultivated, far superior to the other major commercial varietal, robusta. Consumers in France and Italy coveted the island’s distinctive...

Dec 6, 2008

The Walla Walla Roastery serves more than a good cup of coffee. An icon of the Virgin Mary hanging on the wall in the kitchen reminds the brother and sister who own the coffee shop that their role in life is to serve people. Co-owners Thomas Reese and Mary Senter invite conversations with and among staff and customers, foster interest in coffee growers and their countries, and help coffee drinkers raise funds for nonprofits. Integrating their family legacy of service and their Orthodox faith, these siblings’ influence extends beyond the doors of their business.