How coffee lovers can enjoy coffee when there's no coffee around to love.
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I’ll take the Highland: Wicked Cafe and Zaruma Gold
In a nod to the wonderful Tartan Army who’ve turned a lot of us into Scots, this weeks’ visits to the coffee shops Wicked and Zaruma Gold are a “Highland fling.”
Roasting (coffee, but also the weather): Barismo and Broadsheet
This past week I visited two roaster-cafés. One pioneered local cold brew. The other provides the coffee for many of the cafés we frequent.
Aroma-ing around Somerville to Michette and Hearth & Hug
When pastry and coffee are good and conjoin their aromas, that makes for a peak experience. But humor was another sense tapped this week.
Sipping cousins: Coffee as a common language
George Bernard Shaw said that England and America are two countries divided by a common language. Coffee brings us together.
Worn wood, comfort and ease: At home at the Circus Cooperative and Café Zing
Coffee in a good setting keeps me there. The place, as you know if you read these columns, matters, almost as much as the coffee. I’m lucky that I can almost always find coffee that keeps me seated....
Two cafes welcoming ‘the irregular’: New Leaf Espresso and True Grounds
A coffee shop in a barbershop and woodsy space with art and painted wainscoting beckon with a trim, a long black and thoughts of a rom-Som.
Curiosities: Vida and Third Time Together innovate culinary quirk around Kendall Square
Two curious cafes are at home in a neighborhood full of people whose curiosity has led to Nobel prizes, scientific discoveries and long-sought cures.
How much is that coffee in the window?
Why are some local cups of coffee just under $2 and some as much as $24? A look at cost, worth and value.
The three sisters: Diesel, Forge and Bloc
There’s no need for rivalry among Somerville sibling cafés Diesel, Forge and Bloc, which draw character from the buildings they inhabit.