rach 1 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I used to be just Starbucks, but when I was in the UK there was a new one (Italian?), Cafe Nero - that was great! What's your coffee then? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Brooks, and when we're feeling rich or it's discounted, Ogawa Coffee of Kyoto. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Any coffee that I am drinking right now. Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Any coffee that ain't Japanese and taste like tar Right now though it is my Starbucks Grande non-fat, non-whip, triple Mocha Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Sounds good! I wish I had a Starbucks within easy reach of my office... Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by SKI: Sounds good! I wish I had a Starbucks within easy reach of my office... No you shouldn't wish you had one close! Make your own and save your mullah! The fact there is one just 4 floors down from where I work is a winter nemisis. Ski dollars just aren't appearing and I am sure it is Starbuck's fault. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Fresh ground Oxacan beans from Mexico, miss one of those for brekkie and it will have you shaking! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hmm, will have to try that... Link to post Share on other sites
Raury 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Starbucks? Are you serious? We had one of those in Sydney but it shut down after the US tourists left after the Olympics. Buy yourself a plunger and some Melita Blue Mountain style ground coffee. Now THAT is coffee. Link to post Share on other sites
IceEiji 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I like Statbucks, but a little expensive in Japan. Is it expensive overseas also? Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 as far as coffee places go I prefer "The coffee Bean and Tea leaf" over Starbucks. i dont drink coffee very often, unless im pulling an all nighter, and desperation leads me to drink whatever i can get my hands on. normally shoddy instant coffee. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 For a taste of true smooth Italian espresso, try Lavazza espresso mix in a proper maker. Or go to the Lavazza Cafe near the intersection of Meiji-dori and Omotesando-dori in Tokyo. My brother's Brazilian co-worker gave him some real Brazilian coffee...it was called "Tres Coracones". She said Brazilian coffee never tastes right unless you actually buy it there, then bring it over. Maybe the export mix or beans are different. When I drank a cup of this stuff, it was a like a new drug to me...and this from a man who often starts the day with a triple espresso. This stuff was amazing. Instead of the jittery, lightheaded, racing feeling I get from most coffees, I had a swelling sensation of sweet bliss in my chest, slightly molten, almost-invisible visual distortion effects like colorshift halos and glowing grids around everything...and best of all, the feeling that my brain had suddenly acquired mechanical linkage to a silent, offsite 90,000 horsepower turbo diesel engine. These feelings of...er... well-being persisted through mid-afternoon...all from a double morning cup of the stuff. Oh yeah...it tasted great too. There were other houseguests at my brother's house that week. I can't recall exactly when it was, maybe after the 3rd or 4th day...but I began to notice that people's morningtime coffee time behavior was exactly like our college-days pot-smoking behavior. Sitting around in tentative postures listening to music and having weird snippets of conversation...everyone gathered in the same room for no explicit purpose, protecting their cup of Tres Coracones with both hands...gazing down at patterns in the flooring, lost in the cascading spirals of some incredible glittering reverie...then flitting back into an ever-tangentially-shifting conversation with bright eyes and an embarrassed smile...then slipping back into lost worlds of reverie again. We burned through that bag of beans in a few days. When my brother told his Brazilian friend how much we'd enjoyed the coffee and shamefacedly requested another bag, fearing it was some kind of expensive gourmet brew, the woman just laughed and said "What? Tres Coracones is just an ordinary supermarket coffee in Brazil...next time, I'll get you a better one..!" OH YES PLEASE Link to post Share on other sites
DeepProbe 0 Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 You know more than I do mate.. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Anything that makes people behave in the disgraceful manner described by badmigraine should be forbidden, and those providing such coffee must be punished with the full force of the law. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Raury - There are still quite a few Starbucks' in Sydney. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 For me, best coffee is Italian Kimbo. You can try this at the Delonghi cafe in Kanda. By the way, is anyone here using French press coffee maker? Tastes different? Link to post Share on other sites
advantyper 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 StumpTown Coffee, its One of the BEST coffee house in Oregon! They imported the coffee beans from overseas. Expensive, but its the best tasting coffee. It was mentioned in Travel Magazine too last year. But then again, only people in the west coast can experience the refreshing taste of it. Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Kona coffee (vanilla makadamea nut in particular)is easily the best! Lion's coffee is also very good. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 kintaro, when i saw your post I knew you beat me to it. I love kona coffee - that stuff is sooo nice Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Starbucks is revolting! Best coffee is Merlo. Link to post Share on other sites
Roger's head 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 I'm enjoying a good cup of Nescafe Excella right now. It has taken me into a world just like the ads for it. Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hmmmmmmmm..... Excella....... Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Starbucks and Japanese coffee is usually very very bad. Dotour is awful, Starbucks is next on the list. Recently there are some new Segafredo and Lavazza coffee places in Tokyo but they are definitely pretty awful to be in. Real chain stores and ugly as. The coffee is 10 times better than Starbucks and Dotour but still I think the same coffee tastes different back home. Raury, I have to agree with Enderzero about the Starbucks stores in Sydney. They are around and should never have been allowed to be built ... The only people who visit them are very desperate office workers with no taste and the Sydney Hong-Kong Chinese population. Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Also, Japanese canned coffee is horrid. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Can you buy espresso machines in Japan? They have really taken off in the last year or so in the UK, you can buy them everywhere now, decent ones with milk frothers for about £40 (8000yen). I now have my own bean grinder and turn my nose up even at french press coffee. Link to post Share on other sites
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