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Coffee Pros

Coffee Los Angeles

Interview: Tierra Mia Coffee founder Ulysses Romero

Ulysses Romero founded Tierra Mia Coffee in 2008 after earning an MBA from Stanford University, working as a New York financial consultant and contributing to L.A.’s non-profit sector. He now has five Latin-inflected coffeehouses,...
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Coffee Atlanta

Interview: Dale Donchey + Jordan Chambers (Steady Hand Pour House)

Dale Donchey is from Richmond, Jordan Chambers hails from Kansas City, and the talented baristas met in the former Emory Village home of Method Coffee Bar & Tea Lounge. They stayed on at Octane...
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Coffee Atlanta

Interview: Octane Coffee co-founder Diane Riffel

Octane Coffee was already one of Atlanta’s most ambitious specialty coffee companies when I visited the Westside location in 2009. Since then, they started roasting their own coffee, opened a Grant Park location and...
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Coffee Atlanta

Interview: coffee pro Matt Davis (Condesa Coffee)

Atlanta has slowly embraced specialty coffee, and one of the leading arbiters is currently Condesa Coffee, a contemporary café and espresso bar in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. Matt Davis runs the glass-fronted establishment’s coffee...
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Coffee Philadelphia

Interview: Coffee Pro Todd Carmichael (La Colombe Torrefaction + Dangerous Grounds)

Todd Carmichael and Jean Philippe Iberti first became champions for “culinary coffee” in Seattle in the ’80s and crossed the country to found La Colombe Torrefaction in Philadelphia in 1994. Their company now has...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Interview: G&B Coffee co-founder Kyle Glanville

Kyle Glanville had a high school job at Carmel Valley Coffee Roasting Company, but it wasn’t until he moved to Seattle to study theatre at Cornish College of the Arts that he started taking...
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