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Coffee Pros

Coffee Honolulu

Interview: Honolulu coffee pro Fred Hokada (Downtown Coffee)

Fred Hokada owns Downtown Coffee in Honolulu, specializing in Hawaiian coffee that he roasts, brews and sells on-site and supplies to nearby cafes like Gorilla in the Cafe. Wife Fumiko creates pastries like her...
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Coffee Honolulu

Interview: coffee pro Eric Rose (Morning Glass Coffee+Café)

Chicago native and longtime Starbucks exec Eric Rose opened Morning Glass Coffee + Café in the summer of 2011 in Honolulu’s residential Mānoa Valley. One year after our first Morning Glass experience, Rose shared...
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Coffee Hawaii

Interview: coffee pro Dennis McQuoid (Beach Bum Cafe)

Dennis McQuoid, the namesake beach bum, opened Beach Bum Cafe on January 23, 2011. The Philadelphia native worked in software sales in San Francisco and moved to Hawaii to surf (and create jobs). McQuoid...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Interview: Cafecito Organico founder Angel Orozco

Coffee and political activism course through Angel Orozco’s veins, and both factors prompted him to launch a coffee company in 2004. His operation originally went by the name Coffee Cellar and occupied a counter...
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Coffee San Francisco

Interview: Sightglass Coffee owners Jerad + Justin Morrison

Anticipation was high for Sightglass Coffee when Oregon-born brothers Jerad and Justin Morrison started building their industrial chic coffeehouse and roastery in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood in 2009. They opened in full last year,...
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Coffee Portland

Interview: coffee pro Brent Fortune

Brent Fortune sold his Portland café and bakery, Crema, but the tireless specialty coffee advocate remains a major player in what’s become a global community. He’s worked on barista championships the world over, co-founded...
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