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Stockholm Kicks Starbucks To The Curb With The Retro 'Konditori Valand'
Starbucks might be attempting to create more of a cafe with their concept "15th Street Coffee & Tea" restaurant, but it will simply never equal the awesomeness of truly great, very authentic cafes that still exist and serve up homemade goods around the world. One such spot, which might not last too much longer as the owners grow old, is Stockholm's Konditori Valand.
The cafe, in the Surbrunnsgatan section of town, is run by Magdalena Åström, who has maintained the original interior of the cafe since it was begun and designed by her husband in 1954. The result is a mid-century modern stunner, with well-worn teak furniture and an imported black stone floor from Italy. The cafe is a fixture in German guidebooks and on the lists of retro furniture enthusiasts, but that doesn't mean that a regular old, design-appreciating tourist can't enjoy a coffee and slice of cake here.
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Travel Mug Solves Age-Old 'How To Avoid Getting Tongue Burns' Problem
The travel mug designers at Jolex have developed a new travel cup that promises to solve one of the central dilemmas in coffee drinking: what to do during that delicate period when the coffee is still scalding hot but you want to drink it anyway. The trick is usually to get just enough but not too much plasma-temperature coffee on your tongue. Experienced coffee drinkers can pull this off while driving, doing makeup, and blogging into their smartphone. The rest of us just look comical, jerking the cup back and forth trying not to get burned.
The new Brugo coffee mug, which uses an innovative design to cool off the coffee one sip at a time, is made for the rest of us.
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Walk The Path Of The Berlin Wall And Crash Into A Starbucks
Fresh from our Most Shocking McDonald's Locations and Must-See Apple Stores Of The World series, we're taking requests for Subways as we begin our Most Shocking Starbucks Locations. Know of a 'Bucks randomly tucked into a curious corner of the world? This is going to be a running series, so email us your suggestions!
So let's say that you're enjoying a lovely evening out for a stroll in Berlin, Germany and you're perhaps following a brick path in the street that marks the former location of the Berlin Wall. You're walking along, eyes down at the ground as you ponder the history around Potsdamer Platz especially, when you run right into the side of a Starbucks.
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Jaunted's Three Favorite (Non-Starbucks) Coffee Shops In LA
In Los Angeles, coffee, just like filmmaking, is a serious business. The adrenaline-riling jolt of a good cuppa joe is what gets those movers, shakers, and dealmakers moving in the morning, and what fuels aspiring starlets as they trek from audition to audition.
Personally, we like to forgo stops at Starbucks and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf; there are way more exciting places to get your heart-pumping fix for the day, especially if you have the luxury of lounging around the space for a while. And in a town where it seems like almost everyone is a freelancer, a free agent, or an occasionally-employed actor, trying different coffee shops is a surefire way to meet interesting new people—that is, if they can tear their eyes away from the brilliant screenplay they're writing.
Our favorite LA-area coffeeshops, after the jump.>>
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Seattle, Chicago and London Get A Preview Of Starbucks' New 'Via'
How many times have you sat there thinking "you know, I could really go for a cup of Starbucks coffee right now, but none of the corporation's 16,120 locations are close enough for me to get to." If that sounds like a problem you encounter regularly, Starbucks has launched a new line of instant coffee that you can carry everywhere. Problem solved.
The new product is dubbed Starbucks VIA Ready Brew—"via" like "road," apparently—and comes in either Colombia Medium or Italian Roast Extra Bold. Just add hot or cold water. The only brick and mortar stores stocking the mix are in Seattle, Chicago, and London. If you do want desperately to try a cup though, you can order online from their website.
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Cafe Grumpy Keeps Picky NYC Coffee Geeks Happy
You never have to look far for a cup of coffee in NYC, but that doesn’t mean New Yorkers can’t make an obsession out of the search for the perfect cup—and we don’t mean the ubiquitous “best cup of coffee in the world” that Will Ferrell got so excited about in Elf.
Lately, NYC java is more about the super-serious independent coffee shops that have popped up throughout Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, attracting devoted followings by treating a cup of coffee as something akin to an art form. Beans are carefully sourced and locally roasted, baristas are trained on top-notch equipment with all the seriousness of a culinary institute, and customers not only know what country their favorite brew is from, but its town of origin and even the farm.
