This is Kat smiling at us while we take this picture at Scout Coffee in San Luis Obispo, California. Their in-house roastery provides the deliciously roasted beans for the beautiful coffees they make on their La Marzocco.
I had read about Brew Café in Dubai’s Jumeirah district on Instagram by several bloggers before but never made it. Today was the day to get my after lunch caffeine fix there. Continue reading “Coffee from Ethiopia, roasted in Berlin and enjoyed in Dubai @ Brew Café coffee bar”
Just as I finished publishing my previous post about the new breed of coffee shops in Dubai an email hit our inbox. It was an invitation to a private sneak peek into a new coffee bar for coffee connoisseurs in Dubai: Mokha 1450. Continue reading “Mokha 1450, the coffee bar for connoisseurs in Dubai”
Literally at every other corner of Dubai you would find a coffee shop offering the usual fare in paper cups of different sizes. For coffee connoisseurs on the other hand it has been tough to find what they are looking for. This is now changing. Continue reading “A new breed of coffee bars in Dubai with Tom & Serg leading the batch”
Paddington is a place not short of great coffee shops, small restaurants using organic produce and artisan bakeries offering their fresh fare. After walking past Infinity Bakery on Oxford Street one afternoon just before they closed we decided not to rush it but come back for a proper meal. So we came back for breakfast only a few days later and it was worth the return. Continue reading “About the art of coffee making, cold drip coffee & Infinity Bakery in Sydney”
Sydney is an amazing place on so many levels. One thing that amazes me in particular is that city’s neighbourhoods are very different and its fun trying to figure which other parts of the world they resemble. Sydney CBD appears like a small Manhattan, Manly could be a place right in the Florida Keys or the Caribbean whereas when in Paddington you’d feel like in London’s Nottinghill or similar. Continue reading “About Sydney’s diverse neighbourhoods & Greenhouse Coffee Bar”
The prospective coffee connaisseur learns at an early stage that freshly roasted beans are crucial for brewing a great cup of coffee. By fresh we are talking days rather than weeks or months. That makes it basically impossible for any coffee you would find in your supermarket of choice to develop the flavour we are aiming for, no matter how air-tight packed the beans might be. Continue reading “Freshly roasted at Raw Coffee Company, Dubai”
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