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