Too Much Coffee, Man…
Jul09
I LOVE visiting all the coffee joints when I’m traveling. If I could drink coffee all day, I would definitely do a Coffee Crawl. Sadly, I cannot drink coffee all day long. So I have to space out my coffee joint visits.
Got a favorite coffee place? Name and locations of said place?
Some Great coffee moments in Squid Row history:
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http://squidrowcomics.com/coffee-food-payback/
http://squidrowcomics.com/coffee-fairy/
I drink coffee that I make at home. I’ve never gotten into going out for coffee, unless it’s coffee & beignets. See, that’s my Yat background coming to the surface…
I have yet to be in New Orleans. The French roots of the city ought to have brought me there already. The jazz and The Absinthe House will get me there someday.
I enjoy the cafe scene… people doing things whilst sipping joe. I love to people watch for sure! I’m a toonist! But also, I have my first coffee of the day when I rise. If I do coffee again, it’s early afternoon and a decaf. I wish I could do more. THings go wonky now if I have more coffee than I supposed to.
My favorite is Cafe du Monde, corner of Decatur & St. Ann Streets in New Orleans.
… adding to the list of places to see in NO.
My favorite coffee place is, alas, no more. It was the coffee shop behind Bookshop Santa Cruz that was destroyed (and an employee died) when the brick wall fell in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989.
Was that in the separate building behind the one that fell? or was it attached/part of? That was before my journey north. I visited Santa Cruz in 1992, and there was rubble behind chain link fences. My, has it changed!
My fav SC coffee shops… LuLu Carpenter’s, Mr. Toots in Capitola, Ugly Mug in Soquel, What is no-more… Capitola Book Cafe… these were my coffee haunts.
A friend of mine had a saying: “That’s as predictable as rain in Seattle.” Rain is so frequent there that they have a festival named after umbrellas: Bumbershoot. But it could be worse. At La Push, on the western side of the Olympic Peninsula, they get an average of some 150 inches per year.
A comedy group there, Almost Live, had some skits about rare sights of Seattle. One was the last corner in downtown Seattle without an espresso kiosk on it.
The joke about the Space Needle was that the Rainier Bank Building (or whatever it’s called now, probably Bank of America Building) the tall skyscraper on Third Avenue that’s all black, was called “The box the Space Needle came in.”
An entertaining book about the founders of Seattle is called “The Sons of the Profits.”
You seem to know lots about Seattle… were you a resident or frequent visitor?
I love nicknames for buildings… “The Pickle” and “Big Ben” in London, “Big Pink” in Portland… it adds a layer of fun.
I would love to see Almost Live… I enjoy laughing.
A second vote for Cafe du Monde! Three cheers for teh Beignets, so covered with powdered sugar that if you’re not careful you’ll choke to death!
Dry mouth and choking on dessert is wholly criminal… especially if it’s French! Dommage!
There’s a building in Lyon, France that has acquired a nickname, as well. It is nothing but a tall cylinder, completely at odds with all of the surrounding architecture. They call it “Le Crayon” (the Pencil)
How charming… I should start a list. “Le Crayon” … to an artist, this is most silly and wonderful.
One can only hope Randie doesn’t come to that same conclusion.
Randie better AT LEAST get a coffee mug out of this trip!
Makes you wonder if an old-fashioned ice cream & soda fountain – complete with soda jerk – wouldn’t do really well there, just to break up the caffeine conglomeration.
Unless they do a coffee soda, I suspect they’d go out of business!
Well, you certainly captured the Seattle color scheme, as I remember it. Pleasant and friendly, but very….grey and moist. And yet Ryan looks cheerful. Always cheerful.
You’re right… I didn’t want to add too much color… mood was what I was after… and if I’d added too much color, it would have made for a very busy toon! And Ryan is always rather cheery… with a name like Goodfellow…
Favorite coffee haunt: Vertigo in San Juan Bautista; the coffee kiosk at the farmers market at Cabrillo College brews several very tasty blends.
The Scenery in todays page is excellent Brig, detailed but full of energy and interest. Well done!
Ha! What a great name for a coffeehouse there in SJB! I will have to check it out the next time I’m out that way… if there are Hitchcock fans in the house, they’ll get the name… and for why.
And thank you. This toon took a REALLY long time to produce…. not just the sketches… but also the coloring and shading and extra splotches and what not.
My favorite coffee place is my own kitchen. I love buying all sorts of coffees from all sorts of places and trying them out. I can pick up deals at Ross or TJ Maxx Homegoods for odd flavored coffees or shell out the bucks for specialty brands from exotic locals. I will even blend my own. Because coffee is essentially my last vice, I enjoy experimentation. The only downfall is that sometimes I can’t ever get a unique brand that I picked up while travelling.
Everybody has their own ideas on what is the bestest way to consume coffee according to their own taste… Do it the way you like… and I would hardly consider coffee a vice… a tool to creativity… but vice… NO!
Hard to weigh in on coffee. I have a defective sense of taste. That said…… coffee with honey in it is a favorite, though I’ve yet to find any place that serves that outside my home.
I have gone thru many stages in my coffee consumption… When I first started drinking coffee it was flavored… now I won’t touch the stuff. So it’s more at French or Columbian… I had to have cream and sugar… then it was cream and brown sugar… then cream and honey… now it’s just cream. And I like that.
i used to go to a little coffee shop in yokusuka, japan called iirc the blue note. great coffee made right at your seat and old jazz in the background. it was infinitely better than shipboard coffee. my ship was an aircraft carrier and the water lines (and therefore the coffee) were contaminated with jet fuel. of course, we drank it anyway. we used to joke about taking an gallon of jp5 with us when we transferred off to wean ourselves.
I used to get a magazine called “The Coffee Journal” (I’m not sure they are in print anymore) but they did an article on the Japanese and their jazz coffeehouses… I was intrigued as these are two things that don’t seem analogous with their culture… but you have validated the story. And I got a kick out of this!
AND for heaven’s sake! Don’t drink the contaminates!
I thought I recognized the Café Vita locale but noooo – Ryan is at the Pike st. location, and I’ve only frequented the one on 5th North, during visits to the Seattle Center. But it’s a great stop.
Hello, Somefan! I wish that I could say that I have visited ALL of these places, but alas… I can only say that I have only been to Bauhaus coffee… well, I think that I visited there way back in 199_? However, the next time I am in Seattle…
PS… I visited several travel blogs and got their recommendations on the best coffee places in Seattle… so as to have a better understanding of where Ryan would go… only the best for our travel coffee cupping blogger.
The bean-slinging center closest to my heart has to be “The Coffee Hag” located in Mankato, MN. It was “home-away-from-home” when I lived there for four years. If I wasn’t working, sleeping, or training/teaching, that’s where you could find me. Home of the best coffee drink ever, the “Black Forest Mocha”!
I love the name… The Coffee Hag. I used to visit a coffeehouse/bookstore called Esmerelda’s in Del Mar. Fun hangout. Upstart Crow in Seaport Village in Sandy Eggo is another such place. “Black Forest Mocha”… Sounds delicious… I love coffeeshops and houses… fine coffee drinking establishments make me happy. I tend to like to chill with the sketchbook at my favorite coffee haunts… East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey is a favorite.