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