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Coffeehouse

Coffee Los Angeles

Tierra Mia Coffee Mocha Mexicano

Tierra Mia Coffee is a hard charging specialty coffee chain from community-minded owner Ulysses Romero. Romero debuted in South Gate in 2008 and expanded to neighborhoods like Huntington Park, Pico Rivera and downtown Los...
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Bakery San Francisco

The Mill: Combining Great Bread and Coffee in Nopa

My infatuation with The Mill started in October 2012, when Four Barrel Coffee and business partner/baker Josey Baker set up a temporary coffee bar in front of the Nopa construction site that would eventually...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Coffee Commissary Cubano

Traditionally, a Cubano is a Cuban-inspired espresso drink sweetened with Demerara sugar. Normally, the sweetness helps to balance what is almost always acrid, dark roast coffee. Miami is clearly the United States capital for...
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Tea Los Angeles

Go Get Em Tiger Silver Needle Iced Tea

Go Get Em Tiger is not a place that many people go for Cheerwine, a uniquely sweet cherry soda from North Carolina. Still, the “soft drink legend” is on the blackboard menu, and I...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Go Get Em Tiger Business & Pleasure

Get over the idea that it’s bad to mix business & pleasure. As I found out at Go Get Em Tiger, the spare specialty coffee bar from Charles Babinski and Kyle Glanville in L.A.’s...
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Coffee Beer Los Angeles

Eagle Rock Brewery Gold Line with Espresso

For Intelligentsia Coffee‘s “Uppers & Downers coffee beer event in Pasadena, Eagle Rock Brewery co-founder Jeremy Raub brewed Gold Line. They named this special beer for the Metro train line that runs through Pasadena....
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