Are you a Louisville area barista? Then listen up. Some fancy coffee folks from around the city will be gathering next Monday evening to geek out. Latte art, music, vacuum pots, etc. Kind of a major pot luck coffee tasting. Mmm.

From Louisville Barista:
What’s going on exactly? Nothing formal… just a [...]

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by John LaFollette
‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent
A little rain never hurt no one: Maybe Pamela Campbell, the owner of the Old Louisville Coffee Shop on Fourth Street, had that Tom Waits song in her head yesterday when she helped customers and strangers alike to find higher ground inside her store.  Campbell spent the worst of yesterday [...]

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by John LaFollette
‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondant
Mayor Dr. Couzin?
Dr. Nimbus Couzin, the owner of Ray’s Monkey House Café, who also teaches physics at U of L’s med school, says he’ll be tossing his hat into the Louisville mayoral race as independent candidate.
A press release issued yesterday says Couzin wants to change the way the city does [...]

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Derby City Espresso and Cake Flour:

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As most of you know, I just got back from two weeks in Austria and its wonderful coffeehouse culture. It’s nice to be able to tuck away into a little street-side café and escape for an hour or two with a newspaper or a good book and a cup of coffee. Or tea. Or a [...]

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by David Dominé, The Bluegrass Peasant
Although a distinct coffeehouse culture has steadily evolved in this country, most Americans would be hard-pressed to find an authentic European-style café in their neighborhoods. Across the pond, cafés from Portugal to Poland are typically casual watering holes where guests can pop in for a quick coffee break or else [...]

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by David Dominé, the Bluegrass Peasant
Sweet Surrender Dessert Café & Coffee Shop just introduced a new summer vegetarian lunch menu, which has been expanded to include several vegan options as well. Available Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the new menu features a variety of hearty sandwiches, salads and soups.
Patrons will find [...]

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Hitch the Wagon: John Schnatter’s Calistoga Bakery Cafe will open its first Louisville location this year in Dupont Circle.  The building it’s remodeling has hosted several restaurant concepts, beginning with Bennigan’s and most recently a Chinese buffet restaurant. I seem to remember a Mexican stage, too. We’re hopful for Schnatter’s enterprise, which has been compared [...]

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McDonald’s is amping up its coffee offerings with its McCafe coffee line, and one of the first of McDonald’s 13,700 U.S. restaurants to offer it is the newly-remodeled restaurant in the Highlands, at 1245 Bardstown Road. Another is at the corner of Taylorsville Road and TrevilianWay.
Capuccinos, Lattes and Mocha drinks will be on the menu,  [...]

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The BuzzWorx coffee shop on Main Street is closing April 25.

That’s bad news for a lot of Main Street workers at places like GLI, Doe-Anderson and Red7e, but BuzzWorks partner Greg Jewell said business has been falling off since December.
“If you want to know if you’re in a recession, ask a small business owner,” Jewell [...]

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Two independent coffee houses, BuzzWorx Coffee & Espresso (718 W. Main Street) and Double Shots (1315 Spring Street, Jeffersonville), are looking for new buyers. According to their Craigslist entries, it’s not immediately clear why both are on the block. BuzzWorx’s listing merely says it’s priced to sell at $40,000, while Double Shot’s entry says its [...]

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Ever know anybody who takes food from one restaurant into another and eats it? I know some, and it embarrasses the heck out of me to be seen with them.
Apparently it’s pissing off restaurateurs when customers do the same with those oversized coffee cups bearing competitors’ logos. Owner Ina Pinkney aired her woes about it [...]

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Starbucks Coffee announced it’s ending its longstanding partnership with T-Mobile to provide Wi-Fi signals in its 19 zillion shops (matter of fact, I think one just opened up on my deck).
Not sure how many of you used that service in the past, and maybe I’m just a tech dork, but I found it a pain [...]

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In an effort to return to what he calls the “Starbucks experience,” formerly retired founder and CEO, Howard Schultz, said the chain will end its warm breakfast sandwich program.
In a New York Times piece, Schultz claims the company’s efforts to be everything to everybody—in this case, compete with fast-food chains for early-morning share of stomach—over [...]

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Louisville businessmen David Lawrence, Damon Garrett and Will Wolford are behind the mid-February opening of Incredible Dave’s, a family entertainment center at 9236 Westport Road. The site, in the Rolling Hills Plaza, formerly housed a Kroger supermarket.
According to its Web site, Incredible Dave’s is part restaurant (serving pizza, steaks, salads and sandwiches), part fun center [...]

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