Sometimes you just know with a coffee place. All my internal alarms were telling me that the Juan Valdez Cafe would not live up to my standards. Since people have asked me for my opinion on this place more than once, I figured I’d give it a try.
The Juan Valdez Cafe states they use 100% [...]
Murky Coffee in Arlington, Va. closed last month. Does Murky’s name ring a bell? Even if you’re nowhere near the Washington, D.C. area, you may be familiar with Murky if you’re an avid coffee-blog reader (which you should be). Murky is the place that refused a customer’s order for a triple-espresso over ice. A blog-war [...]
Just a block or so from Fenway Park in Boston earlier this month, I was positive I’d find several places that served espresso at 11 p.m. One cafe/take-out restaurant promised “Coffee Cappuccino Espresso” in its window, and I figured this was the place. It was a different story once I’d been hooked inside, though. There [...]
At UMass Dartmouth today, I went to the campus cafe and asked for a Cafe Americano. (It was listed on the menu, for the record.)
The response from the woman working there: “Can you tell me how I make that?”
I have to be fair here. She was fairly new on the job, apparently, and the cafe [...]
