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Café à la montréalaise
Montréal est en passe de (re)devenir une destination pour le café. Mieux encore, la «Renaissance du café à Montréal» risque d’avoir des conséquences bénéfiques pour l’ensemble du milieu culinaire de la...
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Café à la montréalaise: introduction
J’ai récemment publié un très long billet sur la scène du café à Montréal. Sans doûte à cause de sa longueur, ce billet ne semble pas avoir les effets escomptés. J’ai donc décidé de republier ce...
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L'héritage italien des cafés montréalais
J’ai récemment publié un très long billet sur la scène du café à Montréal. Sans doûte à cause de sa longueur, ce billet ne semble pas avoir les effets escomptés. J’ai donc décidé de republier ce...
View ArticleCafé à la québécoise
J’ai récemment publié un très long billet sur la scène du café à Montréal. Sans doûte à cause de sa longueur, ce billet ne semble pas avoir les effets escomptés. J’ai donc décidé de republier ce...
View ArticleCafé «troisième vague» et café «à l'italienne»
J’ai récemment publié un très long billet sur la scène du café à Montréal. Sans doûte à cause de sa longueur, ce billet ne semble pas avoir les effets escomptés. J’ai donc décidé de republier ce...
View ArticleLa Renaissance du café à Montréal
J’ai récemment publié un très long billet sur la scène du café à Montréal. Sans doûte à cause de sa longueur, ce billet ne semble pas avoir les effets escomptés. J’ai donc décidé de republier ce...
View ArticleCoffee at CBC
Went to @cbchomerun to talk about coffee. If you got here because of my short intervention, welcome! Here are some of my coffee-related blogposts...
View ArticleCanadian Barista Championship: 2009 Results
Kyle Straw, Caffè Artigiano, Vancouver, BC (663 points) Anthony Benda, Café Myriade, Montreal, Qc (627 points) Chad Moss, Transcend Coffee, Edmonton, AB (610 points) Robert Kettner, Fernwood Coffee...
View ArticleJudging Coffee and Beer: Answer to DoubleShot Coffee Company
DoubleShot Coffee Company: More Espresso Arguments. I’m not in the coffee biz but I do involve myself in some coffee-related things, including barista championships (sensory judge at regional and...
View ArticleBean Counters and Ecologists
[So many things in my drafts, but this one should be quick.] Recently met someone who started describing their restaurant after calling it a “café”. The “pitch” revolved around ethical practices, using...
View ArticleNorthampton Coffee: Espresso
Already mentioned them elsewhere but Northampton Coffee is a place where espresso is really taken as an art form.
View ArticleCoffee Brewing Methods
Got this discussion going on CoffeeGeek for a while now. CoffeeGeek – Coffee: Machines and Brewing Methods, Confessions of a Brikka Lover There are so many ways to make coffee: Moka pots, vac pots,...
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Whaddaday!
Started out the usual way, with emails and blogs. But then moved into very diverse and unique activities. Went to a workshop on the game Guitar Hero, organised by GameCode and Ludiciné. Stimulating...
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Montreal Coffee Renaissance?
Just posted a message about my Caffè in Gamba, a new café in Montreal. CoffeeGeek – Regional: Eastern Canada, Caffè in Gamba (Montreal Intelligentsia) Because this café’s website isn’t online yet, I...
View ArticleJudging Eastern Canadian Espresso
For an ethnographer, it’s always a treat to gain entry in a new group. These past few days, I was given a glimpse, and possibly even some new contacts, into an espresso scene which includes dedicated...
View ArticleCuvée Coffee
[Old Draft] Turns out, this blend is much more flexible and much less finicky than I first thought. Just tried (June 22) a few shots on a LaPa EDL12 with pressurized portafilter. Though all my shots on...
View ArticleTaste and Judgement (Draft)
This post isn’t ready to be written. So this is just a placeholder. But, given my RERO mantra, I guess I should still publish it as a “placeholder” of sorts. I recently served as judge in the Canadian...
View ArticleFirst Myriade Session
Today’s main coffee event is the anxiously awaited Grand Opening of Café Myriade (1432 Mackay, Montreal, right by Concordia University’s Sir George William campus). I just did my first of certainly a...
View ArticleCafé Myriade Linkfest
Been meaning to write a blogpost, in French, about Montreal’s coffee scene. I’ve already written a few posts in English about it. Caffè ArtJava: Real Espresso in Montreal « Disparate Montreal Coffee...
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