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Giving Starbucks up cold turkey
By adamg on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 8:08pm
Theresa has enough of "corporate coffee" and so tries out locally owned shops in Newtonville.
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cranberry cafe in southie
best coffee on broadway. and yes i'm including dunkies.
Terroir-ism!
George Howell, coffee connection founder, has his own line of YUMMMMMMYYYYY coffee that he supplies to local coffee houses.
True Grounds (Broadway in Somerville at Ball Square) is one of them.
Others?
(I'm headed to Seattle in a couple of weeks and had a conversation about Starbuquitous with a coworker. We will visit the original just to say so, but I was long ago instructed to AVOID the corporate coffee in Seattle in favor of the many carts and alleyway holes-in-walls that have the real java jive!
I'm still ROFLMAO about Seattle's Best Coffee's "Post Alley Blend". Post Alley is a lightless pass-through on a steep bluff redolent of spilled beer, mildew, stale ciggies, and all the juicy fruit gum people use to make art mosaics!)
Crema Cafe in Harvard Sq.
Crema Cafe in Harvard Sq. also serves his delicious brew. (It's the new place over near Brattle St. where Au Bon Pain used to be)
Another good place
Is Red Barn, which is a small locally owned chain. I go to the one on the ground floor of Faneuil Hall. I think their coffee is the best in the area.
I had Dunkin's for the first time in a while a few weeks ago and found the "coffee" to be unpalatable (not to mention, due to the approximately 3/4 cup of sugar they dumped into a medium, a bit sticky). I had to dump it. They've really lowered the bar as to what passes for coffee.
And yet another suggestion: Boston Beanstock
at 97 Salem Street. That's the first block of Salem Street as you enter the North End, on the right-hand side. I'm not linking to their web site because it's currently a blank "under construction" page. Instead, I'll send you to their Yelp page.
No longer Beanstock
They changed their name, which is too bad, I liked Beanstock better. Now they're the Boston Common Coffee Co.
Boston Beanstock
I think there is still one on High St (across from the wierd black Fiduciary Trust building) downtown. It has awesome coffee, pretty decent pastries, and good lunch too.
None of these are really "Newton"
But my fave little place during work is Beantowne Coffee House in Kendall Square. Good sandwiches, great coffee, really nice staff.