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Daniel of Arabica

Write for your audience. In other words, if your site’s about puppies you probably shouldn’t be writing about your latest trip to the dentist. The puppy lovers that came to your blog didn’t come to your blog to hear about your tooth decay issues and they are probably not going to stick around to read about it.

Beer By BART

Never again, the scourge of the designated driver!

Intelligentsia, Venice

The second Los Angeles Intelligentsia café opens in the hamlet of Venice in May.

Cappucino at Blue Bottle in the Ferry Building

“Retrofit” espresso blend (did you know they use a different espresso blend at each of their locations?) in one of the “for here” Heath Ceramics cups. Stylish. Smooth. Tasty.

There's more than one way to roast a Wondo

Looking for “There’s more than one way to roast a Wondo”? It’s now on Daniel of Arabica, my coffee-focused blog.

Award Winners

You can’t always judge a “book” by it’s “cover” but you should always trust your roaster
Sometimes, you have to wonder about awards. I used to look forward to the Oscars. They were an event in my home and we would plan our evening around the show. It was like a sporting event. We would wait…(read [...]

Fire up the Afterburners

Is Four Barrel going to begin roasting soon?
I was in Four Barrel Coffee today and witnessed what, I believe, may be the last piece of the roasting operation puzzle for them. There was a monolithic oriented strand board box sitting smack dab in the middle of the front of the house as I walked in. Not [...]

Life's Little Luxuries

Call me an elitist or a sell-out, but I’ve come to love life’s little luxuries like chairs, tables and bathrooms [...]
– manseekingcoffee
From the mysterious “manseekingcoffee”, on his excellent blog of name same, from his review of the (fairly) recently de-funkified (no more alley location!) Four Barrel Coffee in The Mission in San Francisco.
Of note: Four [...]

Blue Bottle in New York

Well, I’ll be, Blue Bottle’s stellar beans have hit New York and have taken up residence in “A Restaurant That Respects Espresso”.

Design + Coffee = Topic Nirvana

Architecture firm Sagan Piechota’s renovated office (and “salon” space as well, apparently) on Linden Lane provides the space for Blue Bottle Coffee’s seminal “bricks and mortar” retail outlet and hopefully, soon, right out front, a nice little alley renovation that will make sipping one’s finely crafted espresso beverage just that much more enjoyable.

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