The veritable deluge of awesome coffee continues.
Saturday comes around, another crawl … but where to go …?
We arrived at Hazel’s and peered at the little orange card displaying the day’s pour-over offerings … Ooh! Ethiopia Idido Misty Valley … Ooh ooh! Panama La Esmeralda #5 … Is this for real?! We can drink BOTH of them right now? The IMV … strawberries (less cream this time) … juicy, succulent … delicious … And the Esmeralda … floral, violets but deeper tones as well … ah … IMV … Esmeralda … IMV … Esmeralda … seriously … how good is this?!! Oh right, espresso … PNG Elimbari … meaty, but honey sweet … punchy … (insert bonus catch up with Mark & Jess here; once Mark realised who I was … hahaha!).
Another café, and another awesome Sidamo. Mecca this time and a syphon-brewed something-starting-with-B. Those boys are killing it there; the last three visits have yielded simply excellent syphon-brewed Sidamos and I like! (Celebrity spotting incident #1 - Paul “World Barista Champ 03″ Bassett).
By now, we were hungry, so we headed to the obvious next stop - The Source. A ham, cheddar and chutney sambo, and it’s back into the coffee. Espressoland now; Lucky 7 first (spice, jasmine tea, dark chocolate - Dan, shut up!), then the Guatemala CoE #22 Finca La Perla (oddly fishy aromatic to begin with, but a really clean and balanced shot, very nice). (Celebrity spotting incident #2 - George Gregan and a macchiato).
Yeah, one of these days I’ll post about something slightly more interesting and meaningful …
ha! Even Gregan knows his cafes serve crappy coffee!
http://www.georgegregan.com/espresso/ggehome.html
… serve crappy coffee! So he goes somewhere decent, well, more than decent really.
sorry for the double post, I hit submit before I’d actually finished what I was going to say.
yeah, might be a little bit beyond decent, huh?
Though there’s a café somewhere on the way from Dan’s to Hazel’s (maybe in Newtown) that advertises their “Decent Coffee” … hilarious.
next time you see it try and remember who it is, might go up and try some ‘decent’ coffee. Newtown is only a short pedal from St Peter’s after all …. Mind you, so is Hazel’s and I’m VERY slack about getting there with any sort of regularity.
When I lived closer to Broadway shopping centre, there is a cafe sorta across the road from it (not the GG in reader’s digest) that used to have a blackboard that said “You can stick your Starbucks up your Gloria Jeans”
always made me giggle.
Hey Michelle, I just wanted to revisit this post of yours from March … is it just me, or has 2009 been an awesome coffee year since the get go? Here we are 6 months later and since the IMV, La Es @ Coffee Alchemy and first round of Ethiopians @ Mecca I think its just kept getting better, or AT WORST stayed the same. Its been such an exciting time for coffee and I don’t see how or when its going to end. The “3rd wave” is becoming a King Tide methinks …
pretty sure it’s not just you …
BAGERSH.
Yeah, I need to do a new post, I was just thinking that the other day.
Stay tuned.