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It’s called Coffee Places Where You Can Think, and its right there.  A word of caution though.  Ariel is a connoisseur of coffee houses but his preferences are guided mostly by the atmosphere...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/01/ariel-rubinsteins-coffee-grid/

From a design point of view with lots of beautiful pictures, like this one: This part was news to me: The man to finally surpass the two-bar brewing barrier was Milanese café owner Achille Gaggi...

https://cheaptalk.org/2012/09/24/history-of-the-espresso-machine/

Now you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents without wasting coffee: Your readers will appreciate you saving them the effort. From the package documentation: This package provides an ess...

https://cheaptalk.org/2010/11/18/latex-coffee-stains/

https://cheaptalk.org/2010/07/12/pictures-of-empty-cups-2/

I tweeted a picture of my coffee yesterday: And @gappy3000 asked “isn’t that favoring presentation over content (literally)?” It turns out that the answer is essentially no.  To make latte...

https://cheaptalk.org/2010/03/05/no-tradeoff-department/

Pronounced ‘Ely’ (unless Marciano corrects me.)   They are expanding their ‘Artisti del Gusto‘ program in the US in which Illy supplies shops with Italian espresso machines, coffee cups,...

https://cheaptalk.org/2009/11/05/cafe-illy/

One of the best campus coffee shops I know is on the UCSD campus where I had the great fortune to spend a month this summer (much more on that coming soon.)  The place is called Perks.  Its not...

https://cheaptalk.org/2009/09/01/perks-on-ucsd-campus/

Today at Peet’s in Evanston I was trying to work out a model for this idea Sandeep and I are working on related to the game theory of torture.  I started drawing a litle graph and then got los...

https://cheaptalk.org/2009/06/04/ill-be-in-my-trailer/

It is not hard to make a good espresso nor is it hard to steam milk to the right temperature and frothiness to make a cappuccino or latte.  But virtually all coffee houses fail both, especially ...

https://cheaptalk.org/2009/05/01/1107/

After my Cafe Milano post yesterday, I got some great comments that took me north of the Berkeley campus.  (First, I stopped at Peet’s on Telegraph so I had the requisite amount of caffeine to...

https://cheaptalk.org/2009/04/25/places-to-drink-brewed-awakenings-euclid-av-berkeley/