I’m a coffee lover, that’s for sure. And even though Berlin is in any other way a great city we have a lack of really good locally roasted beans. There’s a lot of roasters in the area, but compared to the beans of e.g. Four Barrel, Ritual Coffee, Square Mile, Intelligentsia, and the like, they’re [...]
The heat wave in Berlin continues. We’ve been having temperatures around 37-38 degrees Celcius for the last couple of days. As long as we’re not walking around much and steer clear of public transport (usually > 40 degrees on subway and city train) it’s bearable.
We spent most of Sunday out on the balcony, regularly dipping [...]
Some time towards the end of May I got a very excited email from one Mr. Ferry. He told me about a new coffee shop that just opened in London, courtesy of the dudes and dudettes from Square Mile. It’s neatly called Penny University, is Square Mile’s first retail outlet, and they only serve brewed [...]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that getting great coffee in San Francisco isn’t too hard. Heaps of great coffee shops around, heaps of roasting going on. Even with the risk of including the obvious candidates I’m still gonna list all the coffee shops I really liked over there. Here’s my top three.
Blue Bottle Coffee
Duh, [...]
When you get into the coffee groove you get a lot pickier about coffee shops. Thankfully there’s a couple of really good ones in Berlin. The list is not exhaustive, if there’s any I should know about, please let me know, and I shall give their coffee a thorough beating.
Bonanza Coffee Heroes
This was the shop [...]
These are optional, not mandatory. Although I live by them if you will.
Buy local. This goes for a lot of things, and it’s true for coffee beans as well. Buying local beans is not only a means to support local business, it also ensures that your beans are fresh. Buying beans at the supermarket means [...]
The path to good coffee is not that hard to master, you don’t have to be a total coffee nerd too. It’s not like climbing Mount Everest. Far from it. For a full and all-around happy treatment check out this post on coffee over at Gizmodo, pretty good stuff in there.
My rules are simple:
Always use [...]
I sure enjoy going back to the Oliv. It has become one of my favorite cafés in Berlin. Last time we went there I had my Nikon loaded with Rollei Retro 100 film, and I ended up shooting most of the film in there, filling it with shots of J and Mari, and some of [...]
On the quest to find more great coffee shops in Berlin it was J’s turn to come across the newest one, which is also pretty much in our neighborhood. It just opened this July, so it’s no wonder we haven’t come across it earlier.
It goes by the fancy name “No Fire, No Glory”, has a [...]
We recently discovered a nice cafe right in the center of Berlin. Usually we tend to stay away from that area, because it’s full of insanely hip people and tourists. But this one is a keeper. It’s called Oliv, it has a very nice interior, and they serve excellent coffee. Obviously the light is perfect [...]
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