A Matter of Service
Anyone who dines out knows that your final opinion about a place is so much more dependent on the kind of service you receive than the actual food on the plate. Unless you have...
LA’s Best Coffee App Review
Finding a good cup o’ Joe in L.A. is increasingly easier these days, with Intelligentsia’s nearly 4-year expansion into the City of Angels marking the city’s first major foray into the newest trend: specialty...
The Minimalist’s Coffee Brewer
The response to my previous post about doing good pourover coffee received pretty good attention, but I’ve still heard people say that it’s too tedious, and all of the equipment is expensive. I might...
What’s the Meaning of Iota as a Coffeehouse and Cafe?
Koreatown has been a hotbed of coffeehouses and cafés for a good number of years, fueled mainly by the old Korean pastime of loitering in nicely designed spaces and drinking overpriced, water-downed coffee mixed...
Seeing Similarities between Wine-Growing and Coffee-Growing
The more I try and read about wine-growing methods and vinification, the more I realize just how difficult it is to produce a great wine. The entire science has spawned schools, such as the...
Making Los Angeles a Better Coffee City, One Cup at a Time
The Los Angeles coffee scene didn’t just explode because a big-time roaster like Intelligentsia planted its feet here in August 2007. After nearly four years, it seems that companies like Four Barrel, Stumptown, Blue...
