Coffee review: 100% Kona

Origin: Holualoa, Hawaii Notes: This coffee is a dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit is removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. Blind Assessment: Intense, crisp, molassy sweet aroma: coffee cherry, aromatic wood, dusk flowers. In the cup soft but powerful acidity with a wine, or perhaps better, apple cider nuance. Delicate, silky mouthfeel, very sweet, continued coffee cherry, molasses, nut, aromatic wood, a hint of dusk flowers, all of which suggest at moments the most subtle milk chocolate imaginable. Smooth, clean, lightly flavor-saturated finish.Who should drink it: At the moment of this review, early December 2008, fresh from the patio and just rested, an extraordinary and original coffee, complex and exotic yet lyrically pure.

This weeks menu:

1. Italian panini: Salami, pesto,mozzarella

2. Hummus plate: Homestyle hummus, assorted veggies, pita wedges

3. Breakfast panini w/ free coffee, ham or bacon

4. Lunch special: Hummus plate and any flavor smoothie

5. Homemade veggie beef noodle soup

6. Philly cheesesteak wrap

New coffee review: Organic Peruvian

Origin: Northern Peru.

Notes: Nicely balanced sweetness and chocolate-toned roast pungency, complicated by a touch of pruny fruit. Certified organically grown. Blind Assessment: Nicely balanced sweetness and chocolate-toned roast pungency, complicated by a touch of pruny fruit. A bit simple and monotoned, but pleasantly and deeply so, like good minimalist music.Who should drink it: Minimalist coffee drinkers? Should provide satisfaction without distraction.

New Coffee Review: El Salvador

Origin: Western El SalvadorNotes: Produced under mature shade from trees of the heirloom Bourbon variety by farmers who market their coffee under the name Cafe Altamira. Blind Assessment: Voluptuously classic coffee, perfectly poised between an almost sugary sweetness and a crisp, rich acidity. The mouthfeel is big and silky. The basic package is so complete that the hint of cherry- and tamarind-toned fruit comes as a bonus.Who should drink it: Those considering moving from coffees that owe their sweetness and body to a darkish roast to coffees that pretty much start that way.

New coffee profile: Yemen Mocha Mattari

Origin: YemenNotes: Distinct fruity chocolate tones, cherryish and round, are balanced by a tobaccoey dryness. When the coffee is hot the chocolate-fruit tones are fresh, complex, and thrilling. Yemen is grown in the mountainous region at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula, just across the Red Sea from Africa. It is often called Mocha, after the ruined port through which it was once shipped.This DOES NOT refer to chocolate. It is the world's oldest commercial coffee. Blind Assessment: Distinct fruity chocolate tones, cherryish and round, are balanced by a tobaccoey dryness. When the coffee is hot the chocolate-fruit tones are fresh, complex, and thrilling. As the cup cools the tobacco tones intensify and turn slightly (though cleanly) astringent.Who should drink it: The quintessential romantic's coffee. A good one to try on coffee-doubting friends who assert that all coffees taste the same. Try it in a French press.

New coffee profile: Celebes Kalossi

Origin: Toraja (also Kalosi) growing region, southwestern Sulawesi, IndonesiaNotes: Sulawesi coffee, grown in the mountains at the southwestern-reaching tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) near the port of Ujung Pandang (formerly Makassar), typically offers a more extreme version of the traditional Sumatra Mandheling cup, heavier, more pungent, more ambiguous. Blind Assessment: Lushly high-toned, remarkably complex aroma: flowers (tea-rose?), temperate fruit (pear perhaps), milk chocolate. Slumps toward a lower-key bittersweet character in the cup with only occasional glimpses of chocolate, but the giddy floral top notes persist. Slightly astringant finish.Who should drink it: Lighter toned and less heavy than most traditional dark-roasted Sulawesis, but still pungent and complex: Sulawesi , a very good one.

This weeks menu:

This week's menu:

Raspberry Chicken panini-5.50

Herb and pesto Turkey panini-5.50

Breakfast panini- w/ free coffee-4.50

Lunch special: either panini, cup soup, free bottle water. 7.00

Chicken corn chowder: cup-2.50 bowl-3.50 add foccacia-.50

Berry special: celebrate spring w/ a raspberry panini, and your choice of wildberry or strawberry smoothie-8.00

Coffee review: New Guinea

Overall Rating: 93 points
Aroma: 8Acidity: 8Body: 8Flavor: 9Aftertaste: 8Roast (Agtron): Medium (54/64)

Origin: Waghi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea Notes: The high mountain valleys of central Papua New Guinea offer some of the world's most favorable terroirs for production of fine coffee. When these coffees, grown by local villagers, are carefully prepared by the traditional wet or washed method, as is the case with this coffee, they can rank among the world's finest.

Blind Assessment: Ken (93) and co-cupper Jennifer Stone (92) both remarked on the bright, richly floral character of the aroma. In the cup quietly vibrant acidity, smooth mouthfeel, continued gentle richness, with a flavor complex that combines lush night flowers with a sweet pungency pointing at cedar, caramel and deep-toned, carnal fruit: apricot, mango. Long, deep finish.

Who should drink it: A particularly refined and explicit expression of the pungent, tropical fruit and floral tendencies of small-holder Papua New Guineas. A breakfast cup that took a detour through the mango groves out to the beach.

New: Coffee review: Kenyan AA

Reviewed: October 2007
Overall Rating: 96 points
Aroma: 9Acidity: 9Body: 8Flavor: 9Aftertaste: 8Roast (Agtron): Medium-Dark (44/56)

Origin: South-central Kenya.Notes: This coffee is certified Fair-Trade, meaning it was purchased from small-holding farmers at a "fair" or economically sustainable price. Despite national coffee leadership marred by confusion and apparent corruption, Kenya cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. Green Mountain is one of the country's leading specialty roasters, offering a particularly wide-ranging variety of origins and roast styles. Blind Assessment: The aroma is very deep and sweet-toned with lush references to banana, coconut, dusk flowers. In the cup the acidity is extraordinarily rich and round-toned, the mouthfeel supple, the nuance opulent with coconut, red wine, chocolate and floral notes. Rich, long, flavor-saturated finish.Who should drink it: A coffee as extravagant as it is elegant.

New: Coffee Review: Sumatran Mandehling

Sumatran coffee is up for review today. We serve this wonderful coffee at our coffee drive thru quite often, it is requested often, and people order the beans often. So, we figured you might like to have the offical tasting notes...

Overall Rating: 85 points Aroma: 8 Acidity: n/a Body: 7 Flavor: 7 Aftertaste: 7 Roast (Agtron): Very-Dark (36/32)

Origin: Mandheling growing region, North Sumatra Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Notes: Mandheling, grown in districts around lake Toba in North Sumatra Province, is the classic Sumatra origin. Technically it is a wet-processed coffee, but a series of peculiarities in how it is processed and dried give it its characteristic low-key richness and idiosyncratic, often unpredictable, flavor notes. Blind Assessment: Lindsey Bolger: "Intense aroma of fresh-from-oven brownies. Flavors of dark chocolate and sweet caramel compliment the rather dark roast. I added points to acknowledge the roaster's skill in pairing the roast so appropriately to the coffee" (85). Ken also was impressed by the aroma: "richly low-toned, chocolaty, malty, spicy, complex. In the cup gently roasty, complicated by dry fruit and malt notes. Who should drink it: Lovers of traditional Sumatra Mandhelings, with their low-toned complexity and ambiguous mustiness that, in a well-handled dark roast like this one, bring to mind good things like dark chocolate and oven-fresh brownies (Lindsey) or chocolate-toned dry fruit and malt (Ken).

Coffee review: Cuban coffee style

We LOVE Cuban coffee, so if you've not tried it, or don't know about it, here's your chance! In Cuba, and all over South Florida, they serve little demitasse cups of super strong, very flavorful, sicky sweet Cuban coffee. We like ours w/ milk (con leche) This is made in a stove top espresso pot, which in my opinion makes the best espresso at home. (we have these for sale at the drive thru.) Here, I've found a nice step-by step instruction w/ pictures for you to try. We also have some very good Cuban style beans for sale at the shop. But, also you can find the Cafe Bustelo in most stores. Here is the link to make it: http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-Cuban-Coffee/

Adding music to the drive thru today

We have been doing a survey of what people would like us to do as far as improvements, and one suggestion was adding some kind of music to the drive thru. So, we're doing that today. Another is adding umbrella tables out front, we're hoping to have 2 by this weekend. And yet another, is to have more baked goods, and add zucchini bread. So, that will also be coming shortly. If you have any suggestions, we would love you to leave them here.

This weeks menu 4/13- 4/17

Ham and cheese panini: $5.50
Roots' chicken noodle soup: $ 2.50 cup $3.50 bowl
Turkey-pesto panini: $5.50
Bacon breakfast panini: $4.50 w/ free coffee
Lunch special: either panini, bowl soup, and free bottle of water $7.00
Club wrap: grilled chicken, mayo, tomato, on a multigrain wrap $ 5.00

Closing @ 12 Good Friday

Hello, just a quick post to tell you we'll be closing at 12 Good Friday. We will be open Saturday until 12 also. We hope you have a nice holiday with your families.

This weeks menu: 4/6-4/10

Turkey Pesto Panini:5.50
Bacon Breakfast panini: 4.50 w/ free coffee
Chicken Caesar salad wrap: 4.50
Strawberry Chicken Poppy salad: 5.50
Ham and cheese panini: 5.50
Minestrone soup: 3.50 bowl 2.50 cup

Hot, fresh cinnamon rolls for Saturday! order now!

We'll be making fresh, hot, yummy cinnamon rolls for Saturday the 4th of April. Preorder any large orders, but if just a few are needed, we'll have plenty!

Breads galore....

We have started baking breads. Put your orders in before Fridays, and you will be able to pick up fresh breads on Saturdays when getting your coffee. Call us at 419-334-4283 to order or just drive through and order. Pictured here is the Icelandic bread. Also, glutein free available.

Baked goods and lunches:

This weeks lunches: 3/30- 4/1

1. Chicken Tortilla soup $2.50 cup $3.50 bowl add .50 for piece of foccacia
2. Ham and Cheese Panini $ 5.50 includes chips and pickle
3. Southwest Chicken Salad- corn, blackbeans, organic greens, tortilla strips, chicken, chipolte lime dressing. $5.50
4. Breakfast panini w/ free coffee $4.50
5. Italian Pesto wrap $ 4.50 in tomato flavored wrap w/ chips and pickle

Don't forget to add one of Catherine's delicious brownies or muffins for dessert!

Perfect Espresso pour

First post!

Hi to all! this is our first post here. We are all about healthy.... and of course good! We feature a full service drive thru espresso bar, yummy baked goods from Catherines Healthy Bakes, and yummy breakfast panini, and a menu for lunches including homemade soups, paninis and salads. We hope to see you soon!