Do Yourself a Favor: Plan Your Presents
Gifting season is coming up quick, and you can make it easier on yourself: plan your presents. You don’t want to wait until the last minute then buy a…
Coffee Is Patriotic
Since before the founding of our country, coffee has fueled our civic discourse. Coffee shops were the original political think tanks, providing a space for diverse thinkers to gather and…
Made Right Here: Art For Coffee
Coffee and creativity go hand in hand. From the first sip of that dark nectar, your brain fires fresh connections. Ideas are liberated, and new revelations percolate from your mind’s…
All About Oolong
When we started to design our Tea & Tisane program, it was just like falling in love with coffee all over again. It took decades to develop, build, and show…
For Your Bucket List: Latte Art Competitions
You’re about to get a glimpse into the secret world of baristas and latte art. It’s Tuesday and Halloween TNTs are coming up quick! “TNT” stands for “Thursday Night Throwdown,”…
The Most Precise Pourover
There are a lot of steps involved in brewing the perfect pourover coffee, but it’s easy when you have the right tools. We’ve got a couple new toys in the…
Coffee Lingo: Tamp
Tamp: (v.) to precisely press your espresso grounds into a perfect puck. The key to really tasty espresso is even extraction. Hot water is being forced through super-fine coffee grounds at…
Tea Lingo: Sachet
Sachet: (n.) not your average tea bag. We spent months curating a new tea program that would complement our longstanding, beloved coffee program, and we left no leaf unturned. We…
Make A Spiced Vanilla Au Lait (With Videos!)
The weather is getting chilly and on brisk, windy mornings, it’s understandable if you don’t feel like making that trek to the coffee shop. But you can have a hot, frothy…
Update on Haiti
Thanks to all who have expressed concerns this week for our partners in Haiti. We heard you, and we want to give you an update on the community that is…
3 Teas for Fall
There’s a moment every year when you feel Autumn settle in and set its roots. It’s officially fall, and while we live and breathe coffee all year long, the seasonal…
Made Right Here: Brooklyn Headphones
Apparently in Brooklyn, headphones grow on trees. Jonathan Grado leads the way down into the basement of an old row house in Sunset Park. Owned by his family since 1918,…