coffee talk
If you live in Portland, OR there is not one street you can drive down or walk on where you don’t see a Starbucks, other coffe chain, small independent coffee shop or someone carrying a coffee in their hand.
But what is that makes Portland a coffee lover’s town, is it the insane amount of creative energy brought in by the diversity of Portlander’s that can only be enhanced by a cup of coffee? Is it the rain that chills our bones for 6-8 months a year, so we need something warm to gives an extra boost?
Well being a coffee lover myself, I am convinced that when you go to small coffee shops such as; STUMPTOWN, you feel a sense of community and there are always regulars working on laptops. When you go to Starbucks you can feel like you have social status because you are able to pay for a 5.00 cup of coffee.
Not only are we a city that lounges in coffee shops, or wireless cafe’s but we house the The American Barista & Coffee School, which trains baristas for the top coffee companies in the world.
Coffee, rain and lattte artwork! Amazing! And because Portland is such a city geared for coffee I will be highlighting a new favorite coffee shop every week! So check it out!
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Over the Teacups,” 1891
January 26th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
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