<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by essxjay:
I've been drinking Torrefaz's Palermo (their darkest) for well on nigh a decade now. Luv the stuff. Has a lovely topnote to it. I do it in a French Press .... Mmmmmm.
Cafe Puccini? Gosh, uh, it's not in my latest Zagat since it's just a coffee/dessert place, so no address handy. (Google it?) But it's west of City Lights bookstore, but not as far as Vallejo. It's right in that whole Italian cafe strip along Columbus.
Or were you talking about Cafe Trieste?
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Puccini -- but I can look it up. Thanks for the tip.
I thought of another good cafe -- Intelligentsia in Chicago. This is another serious coffee business with a big roasting business. I have made espresso -- yes, the straight stuff -- with their Italian roast but didn't care for the ultra-dark (IMO) roast. It was a high-quality roast, though, so I just need to try their other coffee blends and "single origins."