Entries tagged with 'coffee shops'
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"This is Zummo's Café—Pennsylvania's, and perhaps America's, best coffee shop." If you're the sort of person that doesn’t know why they should visit Scranton, Pennsylvania—except to see if the Dunder Mifflin office really exists—I'm here to help. Imagine you're lost in a sort of run down neighborhood. You spot a café, and pull over. It’s across the street from a church, down the street from a storefront courtroom, Catholic school, and rectory and in an old wood-frame house. A police car is parked outside and construction workers are having a smoke out front. What do you expect? Plastic-wrapped danishes? Week-old doughnuts? At least you'll get directions. When you walk in though, you notice the Clover machine. Yeah, they make coffee...
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At the Pike Place Market store I can sit around and jive talk about coffee for hours, but many others don't necessarily want to know more about it—instead, they're drawn to the experience of drinking it, socializing with friends, talking about the previous night, peeling off layers of a cranberry walnut muffin, until we reach that coffee buzz which makes surviving the upcoming day all that much more plausible. No wonder so many successful coffee shops around the country create living rooms for their customers with dark wooden floors, light colored walls, communal tables, and the endless aroma of freshly ground beans. We're drawn to comfort in the aroma of brewing, the barista's choice of music, and the milk-infused...
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It's pretty easy to sneak into a coffee shop, yank some internet, do what you need to do and skedaddle. No muffin? No $4 latte? Why when you can pretend to be invisible! Since that's not cool for the cafe, Holland's largest chain of coffee shops called CoffeeCompany is using WiFi names to insert menu hints like: "HaveYouTriedTheCarrotCake?" and "Mmm...YummyMuffinsOnly1,99." [via SwissMiss]...
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Photograph from t1mmyb on Flickr At the bakery/cafe/lounge Buzz in Alexandria, Virginia, babies (and baby-ish age range) can get a kick-start on their fancy $4 coffee addiction. According to a press release: Kids can now enjoy their very own coffee bar beverage with Buzz’s new Babycino. The child-friendly concoction is caffeine-free, and made with cold regular or chocolate milk served in a 12-ounce cup, and topped with frothed foam and a drizzle of homemade chocolate sauce for $1. So basically it's just milk with stuff on top. "Babycino" was new to me, but actually has entries on both Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary. Do babies really care? Don't they just want bottles and juice boxes?...
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Photograph from Aokettun on Flickr Ever since I spent a summer in South America, I’ve had a special place in my heart for mate—yes, it rhymes with “latte”—the spicy, earthy tea that Argentines guzzle like we North Americans do coffee. Walking down the streets of Buenos Aires, it’s not uncommon to see busy professionals with a silver mate gourd in one hand and a thermos of hot water in the other. The yerba mate plant has high levels of “mateine," a stimulant that, despite its name, is chemically identical to caffeine. Yet many people, for reasons not quite understood, find mateine easier to take. It’s a great boost of energy without the jitters, shakes, and stomachaches that a strong...
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"Tipping Point," from SimpleBits Not that voting with your greenbacks will affect anything in the situation above. Well, it'll up the tip ante for the folks at Jaho Coffee in Salem, Massachusetts, where the "Should Obama veep Hillary?" question is left up to George Washington and the other presidents who appear on U.S. coinage. Jaho Coffee is web designer Dan Cederholm's local haunt, and he explains that the tip-prompting question changes daily. This was today's....
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Coffee shops offer one of the last vestiges of community in this day and age of isolation, iPods, and Internet. To my single friends, I say, "Don't go to a bar, go to a coffee shop. Read a book and drink some coffee and you'll meet someone."
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