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Coffee

Coffee San Diego

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters Chuck’s Root Beer

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters is a low-key coffee operation that Chuck Patton founded in 2002 in a sleepy neighborhood south of La Jolla Village. The business now runs five San Diego coffee bar locations...
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Coffee Mexico City

Cafe Avellaneda Juanito

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s famed Blue House was teeming with tourists on a Sunday afternoon. Coyoacán is a historic neighborhood in southern Mexico City that may best best known for Museo Frida Kahlo....
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Coffee Los Angeles

Intelligentsia Coffee Limelight

“Living in the limelight, the universal dream.” Those lyrics from Rush lead singer Geddy Lee swirled in my head. So did memories of the Limelight, a New York City nightclub that I may or...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Ambrose Cafe Ambrosia

In Greek mythology, Ambrosia is the nectar of the gods. Doves would deliver this magical elixir to Mount Olympus for Zeus and his siblings to enjoy. Somehow, Midcentury Americans reinterpreted this concept as a...
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Coffee Los Angeles

310 Coffee Cappuccino

It would have been hard to imagine even 5 years ago, but many Los Angeles neighborhoods now engage in caffeine wars. Not that it’s contentious in most cases, but multiple specialty coffeehouses vie for...
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Coffee Orange County

Thunderking Coffee Bar Captain Save A Pistachio

Every once in a while, a specialty coffee bar will serve one signature beverage that breaks the mold of a typical cafe menu. At Thunderking Coffee Bar, a daytime partner inside SOCIAL Costa Mesa,...
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