View Larger Map With this week’s flip by Ninth Street Espresso from using Stumptown Coffee (blue pins) to Intelligentsia Coffee Roasters and Tea Traders (red pins), the infiltration of heavy outside forces into NYC’s coffee scene is raging harder than ever. (Hey, remember those four months when the only coffee for sale anywhere was from [...]

visiting a coffee roastery is like a fantasy factory tour: it appeals to both the sensory and machine-geek parts of my brain palette, and I’m lucky that the folks at counter culture coffee in durham, north carolina, were totally on board with letting me stop by while i was in town. was i even just [...]