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Art you can sink your teeth into
By adamg - 2/10/12 - 7:34 amArtist Mary Sheehan Winn posts a photo of an oil painting she recently did on commission: A Dunkin' Donuts cup and some jelly-filled Munchkins:
This painting is a commission done from a similar painting, for a pair of sisters. I don't know who's going to end up with it but they are both DD fans. I admit I was hindered some (mentally) by having already done this same painting, but I set up my still life anyway and did it again. Hope I captured the same feeling that drew them to it.
Brewing battle for Cleveland Circle as Starbucks gets ready to open up shop
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 4:48 pmThe Boston Licensing Board today approved a license for a Starbucks at 1944 Beacon St., across the street from a Dunkin' Donuts.
Finally: Cambridge to get a Rwandan coffeehouse
By adamg - 12/4/11 - 9:43 pmThe Herald alerts us to a new place moving into Porter Exchange in Porter Square.
Trouble brewing: Keurig lawsuit says single-serve coffee makers are not open source
By adamg - 11/4/11 - 9:26 amKeurig, the Reading-based maker of single-serving coffee machines, is suing a California company that makes knock-off K-cups.
In a lawsuit filed this week in US District Court in Boston, Keurig says the Rogers Family Co.'s OneCups violate two Keurig patents (here and here) for a "brew chamber for a single serve beverage brewer."
Cambridge coffee klatsch castigates Keurig
By adamg - 10/15/11 - 8:06 pmCambridge Day reports on a conclave of Cambridge cafe owners gathering to commiserate, share gossip and, yes, complain about single-serving coffee pods.
Watch out, Starbucks? Canadian coffee chain starts Boston invasion in West Roxbury
By adamg - 8/13/11 - 8:39 amBruegger's, which sells bagels in the Village of Chestnut Hill mall on VFW Parkway, is converting the store next door into a Timothy's Cafe, fair-trade coffee, baked goods and sandwiches.
Bruegger's bought the chain from its Canadian founders and plans to expand it across the US. The West Roxbury outlet will be either the second or third Timothy's in the US.
There's currently one Starbucks in West Roxbury, but on the other side of the neighborhood, by Roche Bros. on Centre Street.
Allston restaurant owner snaps up closed cafe to keep Starbucks from moving in
By adamg - 8/10/11 - 9:36 amThe Feast interviews Jennifer Lee, owner of Myong Dong, on why she decided to replace the Allston Cafe next door to her place with her own coffeehouse after she heard Starbucks was talking to the landlord:
"I thought that would be awful for Allston, and that is nothing that we stand for."
Citizen complaint of the day: Sick of Dunkin' Donuts in Hyde Park
By adamg - 7/20/11 - 11:26 amA Truman Parkway habitue pleads with the Mayor's Hotline to get a Coffee Break Cafe where the new Stop & Shop is going in.
The Hotline responds, "your case has been resolved," which is probably a polite way of saying "no."
A bevy of hot beverages in the South End
By adamg - 5/24/11 - 6:38 pmBosGuy profiles profiles the four coffeehouses within two blocks of his home.
Ed. note: Four?!? Here in Roslindale, we have one coffeehouse for the entire neighborhood, but we like it.
Rozzie gets its South End on again; Hyde Park could get ice-cream place
By adamg - 4/26/11 - 5:14 pm
Charlie Redd, late of the South End's Coda, reports his Redd's in Rozzie at what used to be Geoffrey's on Washington Street, is now open.
So far, dinner hours only (1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday). Full bar, he reports. The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow considers his request to buy the liquor license from Beth McNichols, who owns the building and who ran Salute before leasing it to Geoffrey's and then, briefly, Adams Park, before teaming up with Redd.
Meanwhile, looks like somebody is getting ready to open an ice-cream place on Truman Parkway at Fairmount Avenue, next to Cappy's Pizza. Although it's called Bean & Cream, and has a coffee-cup in its logo, Hyde Park denizen Mike Ball informs us (see the comments), it'll be run as an ice-cream place, not a coffee house.
