After spending a couple years living less than a mile away from what I lovingly refer to as Chicago’s coffee corridor – where some of the best coffee spots in all of the Midwest are located – I, sadly, moved north. The likes of Passion House, Dark Matter, Buzz: Killer Espresso, The Wormhole and Halfwit,...
A few months ago, Rogers Park’s coffee scene very suddenly got a whole lot better and a whole lot more legit with the addition of Sol Cafe (which I’ll be reviewing soon), just to the east of the Howard Street Red Line stop. Since then, Rogers Park improved even more with the addition of Ellipsis...
Not so long ago, I drove up to GR to have a coffee meeting with the founder and CEO of Mighty in the Midwest and my new best friend forever, Cliff. We had a lot of really great conversations about everything ranging from the cultural impact of social media, web and mobile app design ideas,...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned while being near, around, and in the specialty coffee industry over the past few years, it’s that relationships often play the most vital role in any business’s success. Not only is this true of the relationships between a shop and its clientele, or a roastery and its wholesale accounts,...
I’m a very fortunate person. Running a coffee review website has given me the opportunity to try some of the best coffees this country has to offer—shipped directly from the roaster to my doorstep on a regular basis, usually free of charge. While some roasters might do it to take advantage of a great free...
Happy Earth Day, coffee lovers! Welcome to my table, here in the corner of this cafe – which is made of recycled wood, milk crates, and counter remnants. In light of today’s celebration of Mother Earth, many of you may be asking yourselves, “What can I do to be a more environmentally-conscious coffee consumer?” It’s...
I’m a very fortunate person. Running a coffee review website has given me the opportunity to try some of the best coffees this country has to offer—shipped directly from the roaster to my doorstep on a regular basis, usually free of charge. While some roasters might do it to take advantage of a great free...
This is a guest post by Olivia Lewis, of Nanny News Network. If you are interested in writing guest articles for the Table, feel free to contact me. In a sea of mega-chain coffee shops with an identical footprint taking over the landscape, it’s easy to miss some of the impressive local, independent chains around the...
This is a guest post by Brice Sturmer, of Coffee Buzz. If you are interested in writing guest articles for the Table, feel free to contact me. Since the launch of my blog, Coffee Buzz, we have had the pleasure of visiting some really great coffee shops in the area. We have also done some reviews...
After kicking around sunny southern California for the past few days, we’re packing our bags and jetting off to the Eastern seaboard, to the home of Ceremony Coffee Roasters—Annapolis. Ceremony has been on my radar for quite some time now; I’ve corresponded with the folks there in the past, their coffee just never made its...
