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LMLM + Lagom P64. I use Heart beans from Bartavelle in Berkeley, one of my favorite coffee shops of all time delivered by mail because we apparently cannot have nice things like coffee shops here.
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I started keeping track of my favorite places for coffee while traveling a few years ago. If I’ve missed an obvious one somewhere,* please let me know!
- Flagstaff: Single Speed
- Helsingborg: Bruket
- Tokyo: Onibus
- Kyoto: Weekenders
- Nara: Any
- Osaka: Seisou†
- Talinn: Paper Mill
- Sandavágur: Fiskastykkið
- Sacramento: Scorpio
- Austin: Idlewild
- Kauai: Dark Horse
- Falkenberg: Swerl
- Mammoth: Black Velvet
- Scottsdale: Berdenas
- Minneapolis:
Bachelor FarmerFRGMNT - DC: Killer E.S.P.
- SLC: La Barba
- Park City: Pink Elephant
- Vegas: PublicUs
- Taipei: Coffee Sweet
- Copenhagen: Prolog
- Zürich: Kraftwerk
- Sioux Falls: Coffea
- San Francisco: Coffee Movement
- Santa Fe: Sky
- Albuquerque:
PrismaticLittle Bear - Palo Alto: Verve
- LA: Menotti’s
- Martinez: States
- Truckee: Dark Horse
- Monterey: Captain + Stoker
- Petaluma: Acre
- Chicago: Intelligentsia
- Basel: frühling
- Aix: Mana
- Paris: Coutume
Instituutti - Göteborg: DaMatteo
- Stockholm: Drop
- Philly: Elixr
- Sydney: Skittle Lane, Edition (CBD), Paramount, Single O (Surry Hills)‡
- Canberra: Cupping Room
- Lisbon: Copenhagen Coffee Lab
- NYC: Café Integral (downtown), Terremoto (Chelsea), Felix (uptown)
- Kittery: Lil’s
- Cambridge: Curio
*I’ve been asked a few times why Seattle is not here. It’s complicated. I lived in Seattle ages ago; it’s where my coffee problem started. But when I went back to my then-favorite cafe, Caffe Vita, it was just too dark for me. I guess my tastes have changed, and I just haven’t spent enough time there recently to have an informed opinion on the many great coffee shops I know are there. I did have a great coffee at Mr West (downtown) when I was there for a conference but couldn’t make it further afield. This is obviously TMI, but if you’re all the way down here you have no one to blame but yourself.
†This is very different from anything else on this list. But it’s one of the best coffee shop experiences I’ve ever had. Go!
‡yes, in Sydney, each neighborhood gets many coffee shops