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Oct 3, 2011 | 6:12 pm

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To answer your request for NYC spots, here's just a few:

Abraco http://abraconyc.com/#home

The Roasting Plant (where the beans travel through pneumatic tubes & then are roasted for each cup) http://www.roastingplant.com/

Joe http://www.joetheartofcoffee.com/

Cafe Grumpy http://www.cafegrumpy.com/

Ninth Street Espresso http://www.ninthstreetespresso.com/N...Locations.html

and for those that like other city's favorite shops NYC also has:

Blue Bottle (Brooklyn & http://www.bluebottlecoffee.net/loca...r-in-new-york/)

Stumptown http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/locations/nyc-ace

Aroma https://aroma.us/locations.php

and my fave which is actually in Tucson AZ.... Raging Sage http://www.ragingsage.com/

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Originally Posted by gfunkdave

Starbucks is my always-there, lowest common denominator. There are a lot of little local places in various cities that are really good, but if I don't have a chance to explore, Starbucks will do.

In Buffalo, The Spot.
In Chicago, Intelligentsia or Metropolis.
In San Francisco or anywhere it's present, Peet's.
In Portland, OR, Coffee People.

I haven't found a similar place in NYC - ideas?

Tim Hortons coffee is just hot brown water - like Dunkin Donuts.

edit: Blue Bottle in San Francisco is a league by itself...it's a place for true coffee geeks, with the vacuum-brewed-over-a-halogen-light Japanese thing.

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