A Nice Cuppa

As a baker and a coffee lover sometimes ya just find it necessary to meld the two together. Often I find that the addition of coffee to a chocolate based recipe helps to bring out the chocolate flavor even more. Recently I picked up a copy of Short + Sweet by Gale Gand […]

CROUCHING BARISTA, HIDDEN LACTOSE (continued…)
Interior - The Cuppa - Day
“Hip Hop MVP”…and the letters twisted their way across his back, around his shoulder blades almost. Six gold stars spread themselves across two wavy swooshes that underlined the initials. He probably thought highly about the gold embossed lettering himself as he strutted. […]

I overheard the owner Elspeth say, “Don’t outsource your soul”
It’s a sassy tea room in the East Village, NYC sporting a sort of slang Colonial tea gone into the wilderness with 1940’s Jazz. There is an invisible shroud of incense which can ignite a sort of “cronos dysphoria”. Cronos meaning “time”, I […]

Every week, I find myself in the coffee aisle of my grocery store, all sense of time lost, gazing at the wall of fresh coffees. I try to find a new bean or blend every week, and have really enjoyed all my new findings. But some days, I???m just tired. I have […]

In a move which is sure to ruffle the feathers of Diedrich Coffee and Coffee People fans, parent company Diedrich Coffee has decided to ???focus resources on growing wholesale and franchise businesses??? by closing and/or selling their corporate branded stores as well as company-owned Coffee People locations. To that end, Diedrich Coffee announced yesterday […]

I am the first to admit that I value customer service very highly. If an order is not right, I’ll pipe up and get it corrected. Incorrect change? I’ll mention it and get it fixed, even for just a few cents. But there’s a line.
Just the facts:
Starbucks sent an e-mail to […]

I was so excited by my new arrival of Peruvian Swiss Water Processed Decaf beans from The Merchants of Green Coffee that I toasted these babies up almost to the point of ash. Oops. Apparently, these beans don’t tolerate much heat and while they didn’t even get to the second crack (my usual […]

In a world filled with fast food and not enough gyms it’s easy to see why America is considered the most overweight nation. And with the number of coffeehouses continuing to climb, many Americans can count on adding on a few more pounds. In an article on Yahoo!, Cheryl Koch, M.S., R.D. discusses […]

Boca Java, an online retailer of gourmet coffee and tea is currently running a campaign that offers customers the chance to show support of our troops in a unique way. Boca Java has been sending coffee abroad since October 2003 in support of the efforts of our troops. But in July 2005 the […]

Saint???s Alp Teahouse
39 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10003
En route to meet some friends for drinks on a Friday after work, a fellow bubble tea devotee and I couldn???t help but wander into Saint???s Alp Teahouse in the East Village (on 3rd Ave between 9th and 10th), NYC. Whether you???ve already been introduced to bubble […]