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Revelations on taste: New thoughts on coffee and food at Sofra

by Corky White September 9, 2026

Almost never is a café visit only about coffee, and that is particularly true at Sofra, a café-deli-restaurant-destination. Its food, with a morning cup of coffee, offers a lesson in pairings.

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Work and play and then coffee at Triangle’s not-quite-coworking cafes

by Corky White September 2, 2026

In my Triangle visit, the space was crisscrossed with striding workers. The residents of café tables were bent over computers and phones. The coffee is just fine.

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Frozen: Do as the Parisians do, but in Somerville, at Wildgrain Bakehouse

by Corky White August 26, 2026

Wildgrain Bakehouse is close by but feels like another planet. And there are very good croissants – surprisingly, previously frozen and then baked.

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Coffee in a museum: Jenny’s Café

by Corky White August 19, 2026

Harvard University has lots of places for eating and drinking, and most do not have particularly good coffee. Its Art Museums offer the exception.

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Call Me Happy: Brews and Belgian waffles carry on beyond Curio

by Corky White August 12, 2026

The cheery greetings, coffee enthusiasm and café gossip at Call Me Honey make it no surprise that the place has retained Curio’s regulars and has added its own fans.

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Kitsch and coffee in Union Square: Nostalgia

by Corky White August 5, 2026

What’s in your closet? If it’s brightly colored, even garish and of little practical use, it’s a candidate for Nostalgia, the vintage gear and coffee house in Union Square.

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Good-enough coffee with better-than-good food: Café Beatrice and Basma Café

by Corky White July 29, 2026

Café Beatrice and Basma Café prove that if there’s a tasty morsel to be had, you can sip a “normal” coffee with relative happiness.

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Jugaad, or coffee any way possible

by Corky White July 22, 2026

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

by Corky White July 15, 2026

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.”

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Roasting (coffee, but also the weather): Barismo and Broadsheet

by Corky White July 8, 2026

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.