I spent a month in Alaska about 10 years ago, and half the month was spent in a cozy little coffee shop called Sleepy Dog Coffee Co. Sleepy Dog was a cozy little cafe situated in a strip mall in Eagle River, the small town outside of Anchorage where my mom had recently moved to…
Monthly Archives: April 2005
cravings
What I wouldn’t give right now for a Regular Milky Way from Cup O’ Joe in German Village right now. Isn’t it amazing how coffee can take us back to the best of memories?
House Coffee
I wander into UnUrban, a coffeehouse in an artsy business district on Pico in West Los Angeles, California. Housed in a…well…house, UnUrban is one of those comfy places you can camp out all day, napping on a well-worn couch or drawing from the reading library when you’re bored and alone. When others are present, the…
Coffee House at Home
So maybe you’re Jonesing for a nice iced coffee but you can’t drop everything and go to the coffee house right now (or, God forbid, there isn’t a good coffee house in your town). Or maybe you’re just looking for some different ways to drink coffee, brew coffee or cook with coffee. Look no further…
Blowin’ in the Wind
Lots of people don’t like Starbuck for lots of different reasons. They come in to town and force indpendents out, they contribute to the McDonald’s-ification of the world, so no matter where you are you can be assured you can get a Big Mac and a Mochaccino, they don’t do enough as corporate citizens to…
Remembrance of Coffees Past
My friend Peter used to work at this coffee shop tucked away in the corner of a strip mall. It was pretty small and dark, with black tile and a black ceiling, dark tables and a few comfy couches and chairs in the back. There were the requisite old games of Scrabble and chess, and…
Starbucks Delocator
Finding independent coffee houses, the copyfight, and grass-roots page rank campaigns, all at delocator.net
Bauhaus Coffee & Books, Seattle
In Seattle, home of Starbucks, the relatively benign corporate giant of coffee retailers, indie coffee houses exist in plentitude. Unlike Starbucks, which nicely, craftily puts all but the chair under your butt for sale, and maybe that too soon, indie coffee houses exist for more than your drip or expresso or CD dollar. Those who…