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Where to Get Coffee in Nicosia, Cyprus

October 28, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

Most visitors to Cyprus come for the Mediterranean island’s sunny weather and immaculate beaches. Nicosia, the country’s landlocked capital, rarely even gets so much as a stopover. With the international airport in Larnaca, most tourists have no incentive to make the trek to Cyprus’s largest city. But those who travel inland will find a bustling coffee scene well worth skipping a beach day. These were four of our favorite place to have coffee in Nicosia. …

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Cyprus, Greek coffee, Nicosia, Square Mile Coffee, Taf Coffee, Turkish coffee

Puzzle Café: Lyon’s Missing Piece

August 19, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

“Soy hot chocolate?”

I’ve only been to Puzzle Café a handful of times, but owner Thomas Audebert has already learned my order well enough to joke with me.

Not missing a beat, I reply “Of course.”

And sure enough, a delicious double espresso turns up at my table, just like it had the several days previous….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: France, Lyon

Montag Coffee Roasters Opens in Bomonti, Istanbul

July 18, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

“Good coffees is worth the stairs.” That’s the motto that’s helped make Montag Coffee Roasters a fixture of the coffee scene in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district. The original location occupies some prime real estate overlooking the fish market, and despite being a floor removed from street level, is almost always crowded. As such a pillar of the city’s Asian side, perhaps it was inevitable that Montag would expand to the more densely populated European side. But rather than opening up in specialty coffee hot spots, like Nişantaşı or Cihangir, Montag chose the up-and-coming Bomonti neighborhood….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Istanbul, Montag Coffee Roasters, Turkey

Jonas Reindl Coffee Roasters: Reinventing the Viennese Coffee House

July 8, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

Vienna has a long history with coffee. Legend has it the first coffee house in Vienna was opened with coffee the Ottoman army left behind at the Battle of Vienna. Whether or not that’s true, the city is still famous for its grandiose coffee houses, many of which remain relatively unchanged since the 19th century….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Austria, Jonas Reindl Coffee Roasters, Vienna

Where to Get Coffee in Innsbruck, Austria

June 19, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

coffee in Innsbruck If it weren’t for the hoards of tourists, Innsbruck might be the perfect Alpine city. But places that are popular are popular for a reason. And Innsbruck’s stunning natural beauty, quaint architecture, and top-tier winter sports make it a travel destination like few others, even if you probably will find that tour group of American college students to be unreasonably loud.

But Innsbruck is more than just the home of the 1976 Winter Olympics. It’s also a pretty good place to get a cup of coffee. Honestly, any cup of coffee tastes pretty good when you’re staring at the Alps, but two places we had coffee in Innsbruck were a step above….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Austria, Innsbruck, White Label Coffee

MAME Brews Destination-Worthy Coffee in Zurich

May 30, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

MAMEWalking down Josefstrasse, it’s easy to see why Zurich repeatedly tops lists of the world’s most livable cities. The brightly colored apartment blocs– an eclectic array of modern and neoclassical architectural styles– are flanked by wide sidewalks with plenty of trees and park benches. Impeccably-dressed cyclists constitute the majority of traffic, and the occasional motorist doesn’t hesitate to yield the right of way to pedestrians.

But what’s a neighborhood without a coffee shop? And Josefstrasse just happens to have one of the best in the world: MAME….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: MAME, Switzerland, The Coffee Collective, WBC, WBrC, Zurich

Story Coffee Opens New Roastery In Istanbul

May 21, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

Istanbul is truly enormous. It’s so big, it’s hard to measure, though some counts list it as the fourth largest city in the world. As the city sprawled out over the the twentieth century, it engulfed several ancient communities, including the modern district of Kadıköy, known as Chalcedon in ancient times. Today, Kadıköy is the main cultural hub for Istanbul’s Asian half, and is home to a dense array of cafés and coffee roasters, including the new headquarters for Story Coffee….

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Coffee Department Opens New Cafe in Nişantaşı

January 31, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

I’ve longed bemoaned the fact most tourists visiting Istanbul don’t make it to Balat, the old Jewish quarter. In addition to its colorful row houses and historic synagogues, Balat is home to one of my favorite coffee shops, Coffee Department. The roaster/retailer has set themselves apart as one of the strongest brands in a very crowded marketplace, due in no small part to founder Metin Benbasat’s tireless dedication to quality. Benbasat is a longtime resident of Nişantaşı, so it makes sense he would open his second café closer to home….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Coffee Department, Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Turkey

Full Stop Station Opens In Louisville

January 16, 2019 By Michael Leave a Comment

I spent the better part of my twenties in Louisville, Kentucky, a city that, by all accounts, punches above its weight class. From fast casual barbecue to white tablecloth Mayan food, the culinary scene is surprisingly diverse, spurred on by low cost of living and a young, culturally-aware population. Many of the most exciting restaurants and cafés are independent, DIY passion projects– a little rough around the edges but driven by a salt-of-the-earth, Midwestern work ethic, with a generous portion of Southern hospitality. (As a river city straddling the Mason-Dixon line, Louisville is geographically, and culturally, confused.)

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Take a Look at Petra Coffee’s Stunning New Maslak Café

December 27, 2018 By Michael Leave a Comment

Petra Coffee MaslakThe most exciting neighborhood for coffee in Istanbul right now is a full 12 kilometers from the city’s center, and technically it’s not really a neighborhood. Maslak is something of an urban curiosity— a suburban financial district on the Northern edge of Istanbul’s European side. But this island of skyscrapers is also home to a booming number of specialty coffee shops— driven by the plethora of white collar office workers that populate the glass high-rises during working hours. The newest of of those shops is the latest café from roaster/retailer Petra Coffee, in the lobby of the Mudo Concept Tower….

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Istanbul, Masklak, Petra Coffee

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