Tuesday, August 9, 2011

worlds best latte art

World's best latte art.
He has techniques that will blow your mind away.
It seems that he is quite the expert on it- coffee making
and decorating art on the top of the coffee


Friday, August 5, 2011

some great world music-perfect for those cafe moments

i was browsing through youtube and stumbled upon some pretty jazz chilled relaxed world music mostly from the putumayo album


just wanting to let you know



Lets' listen to some brazilian now baby

Monday, August 1, 2011

Brag to your friends what you know about Africa's Coffee

Africa

Black Gold of the Continent

travel plan south africa

Brewing Coffee Outside a Bedouin Tent, Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

 



 

Day 13: Oribi Gorge - Coffee Bay

Your Best of South Africa trip continues to a part of South Africa that's still truly wild: the Transkei. The Transkei is the land of the Xhosa and it is also Nelson Mandela's birthplace. When driving through this land of rolling hills you'll see an occasional thatched hut, grazing herds of goats and, despite the low standard of living, you'll also see smiling people everywhere you look.

You'll find a long sandy beach, idyllically situated between green hills and the turquoise sea. The bay got its' name in 1893 when a ship full of coffee beans was ship wrecked there. Some of the coffee beans sprouted, however the plants did not survive and you won't find any coffee bean plants in the area. Spend the night in a cosy hotel with pool at the beach.
Cairo Egypt
 El Fishawy Cafe
El Fishawy is the best known café in Cairo
and a favourite of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz
Mention Cairo, and the first things that come to mind are the pyramids. Why do I consider this unfortunate? Because the pyramids are a remnant of a dead civilization, and Cairo today is a living city of 16 million people. Let me suggest a better symbol: the cafés of Khan-el-Khalili, a living microcosm of Egypt’s metropolis.
Cairo’s cafés are many things at once. Sometimes, they have the social buzz of a nightclub or pub. You can often count on the Egyptian smoking a shisha next to you to strike up a conversation. I even saw some French tourists at a nearby table who seemed to be flirting with two Egyptian women in conservative Muslim headgear. Somewhere beyond the shisha haze was a family in party hats celebrating their kid’s birthday surrounded by golden trays crammed with large frothy milkshakes. A café isn’t a café without, well, introspective café types: reading, quietly sipping their dark mint tea, or scribbling away.
Cafés are habitually doorless and windowless. The interiors spill out onto the streets and the suq spills into the cafés. Cairo’s most famous café, the Fishawy, is a series of mirrors and ornate doorframes crammed into a through street. The street is used by shopkeepers, trinket vendors, and pedestrians, who brush against the tables. Sometimes the people-watching seems a little too intimate but this is Cairo: dense, chaotic, and wonderful.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Germany Cafe Train Lounges

Germany : Cool Train Cafe Lounges

Germany, from the driver's seat
Efficiency and style united
TGV Interior
France, TGV Interior Seating

France, TGV First Class Seating

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Spain

Spain
this one is a a typical breakfast in Spain. Cafe con leche y tostada con tomates/coffee with milk & toast with tomato. i think i remember my spanish friend telling me that it is best eaten with salt and olive oil

This a pretty amazing looking cafe lounge in a train from Spain.
Modern and compact and sleek.

Look Up
Ushsr


Ibiza


Ibiza Cafe Del Mar
Look Up:
Wikipedia
Cafedelmar Singapore
Cafe Del Mar Ibiza

Cafe Del Mar is best known for its chillout lounge music around the world and is based in Ibiza and Singapore. Magical, beaches surrounding you and awesum music!








Monday, July 25, 2011

Global : How to sound like a coffee expert in seconds

Global :

look up
Wikipedia


English: Structure of coffee berry and beans: 1: center cut 2:bean (endosperm) 3: silver skin (testa, epidermis), 4: parchment (hull, endocarp) 5: pectin layer 6: pulp (mesocarp) 7: outer skin (pericarp, exocarp)




Peruvian coffee is booming overseas, where 80 percent of global manufacturers use coffee beans from Peru, making it one of the most important producers in the world, reports El Comercio.

According to Gestión this year exports exceed $1 billion at a price that has been increasing over time. "Until March a quintal of coffee cost $270 and now it is already more than $280, so it is expected to reach the same volume exported in the past year," Gestión reported.