coffee

Adams Village now more caffeinated

adamg — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:26:58 +0000

Steve reports Southie's PS Gourmet Coffee is now officially open at the old Loonie's Liquors location.

Ed. note: Cool beans and all, but shouldn't they have called it Crazy Coffee?

Gasp: Cambridge cafe to cut WiFi at lunchtime

adamg — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:14:42 +0000

Dwelltime on Broadway reports too many people have been using its tables as a cheap coworking space, and that's "run at odds with our aspirations of developing dwelltime as a social hub." So no more WiFi between 11:30 and 3, starting on Friday.

David explains why that won't work - the slacker workers will just set up 4G hotspots and keep on hoggin.' At the same time, he says he doesn't understand why Cambridge won't let the cafe expand just because it doesn't have any off-street parking:

There's a bus stop out front and the place is 4 blocks from the red line, but somehow the city thinks that the business needs to provide parking. And the penalty for not providing parking is to be restricted to perhaps half the seating capacity it could serve. Certainly the last thing I want in my precious Cambridge neighborhood is a cafe full of people. Ugh, the thought of it.

A latte love in Chelsea

adamg — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:33:00 +0000

The Chelsea Record can't restrain its enthusiasm for the city's first Starbucks - finally, proof that Chelsea is no longer a gritty backwater where people have no appreciation for "a richer, sometimes exotically mixed cup of coffee" but instead a more refined community on the move:

A Starbucks in Chelsea is a good barometer of things that are happening here.

Better yet, it is a good barometer of things to come.

We welcome Starbucks.

What a wonderful addition to the mall.

Art you can sink your teeth into

adamg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Artist 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

adamg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:48:04 +0000

The 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

adamg — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:43:01 +0000

The 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

adamg — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:26:53 +0000

Keurig, 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

adamg — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:06:08 +0000

Cambridge 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

adamg — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:39:38 +0000

Bruegger'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

adamg — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:36:44 +0000

The 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

adamg — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:26:52 +0000

A 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

adamg — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:38:50 +0000

BosGuy 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

adamg — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:04 +0000

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.

Down and out at Diesel

adamg — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:22 +0000

These days, Marc Levy can afford to buy a sandwich or two at Diesel. But he recalls his unemployment days when he'd spent hours there slowly munching on a bag of its day-old bagels - or furtively consuming the granola he'd stored in his backpack:

Worst of all was that in addition to taking up space and sucking up electricity, I wasn't tipping. Every Thai iced tea was simultaneously delicious and shame inducing; every time I got 10 stamps on my card and a dollar off was a twist of the knife; and reusing a glass and saving another dime was the final insult.

Forest Hills coffeehouse being replaced by coffeehouse

adamg — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:32:15 +0000

Java Jo's across from the Forest Hills T stop is being transmogrified into an outlet for the Needham-based Fazenda Coffee Roasters, which promises "small batch-roasted coffee with a sandwich and pastry menu."

Via Boston Restaurant Talk.

Ed. lame note: If they called it Tazenda, they could attract fans of Azimov's Foundation series, although that might not be a large enough market on which to base a business.