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I don't drink coffee, but I'm fairly scientific about how I make it (yo Good Eats!), so everybody who's ever had my coffee seems to have genuinely good things to say about it.

(including my sig. other, who is intensely picky about his coffee.)

I would be surprised to see a whole coffeeshop run by non-coffee-drinkers, tho. Were they the proprietors, or employees?

Forget about whether they drink coffee or not. How about customer service basically that knows nothing about their products and therefor cannot help you. THAT is the bigger problem. If they don't drink it, they should at least know the differences, just like a vegetarian at a restaurant that serves meat dishes... you don't have to be a consumer of a "product" to have at least basic knowledge about it.

Hi Peter:

We haven't met but I've followed your blog for many years.

I'd like to do a 5 minute Video Blog conversation with you (stream of consciousness no preparation required and no editing will be done :-) !) at the Library Square Pub on Saturday night in Vancouver. I'll be posting it on blip.tv and YouTube

Let me know if that works via email (roland AT bryght.com) , IM or calling me on my mobile at 604 729 7924.

Cheers!
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...Roland

p.s. If you need Vancouver restaurant recommendations, check out VanEats.com and email if you need more

I found Trees Organic at 450 Granville this morning and really enjoyed it. They also had a killer scone. TO roasts their own coffee in small batches so it is always fresh (so they say).

Try not to drink coffee. More of a tea person now ... but love the coffee smell ... you just cant beat it!

Happened to me as well, only that it was the sommelier at a restaurant in Miami, who, when asked which wine he would recommend, stated "I'm sorry, I don't drink alcohol"

As you well know, your vegetarian Mother is the most versatile and satisfying preparer of meat dishes within our knowledge. Cannelloni and rigatoni with sausage meat balls, braised ox-tails, sauted lamb and pork chops, veal marsala, Dave Chasen's chili....

I could go on and on, as you know, but it's making my mouth water just to write this. The point, of course, is that your Mother has never tasted these exquisite concoctions. And it's not just the family. Everybody who eats here feels the same way.

How does she do it?

Peter,

Checked for about 5 minutes, but couldn't find the email address. Would love to meet up. Let me know when you're available.

- john

I am also in town for IASummit, and I accidentally wandered in there. They were super nice, but seemed perplezed that I did not want food. I had tea, so I was pretty safe. They did have an internet station, and it's all I really went in there for anyways. I did like the name!

I guess the fact that your cup of coffee was bad might be due to the fact that the people behind the counter didn't drink the stuff. So how would they know if they were pouring out swill. They probably burned it.

Kinda like employees at software companies who never use the software they create. It's gotta be bad.

Vancouver hole in the wall restaurant info:
http://www.vaneats.com/2006/03/28#a4057

I agree-people should definitely know what good coffee tastes like before they serve it.

I had to post - and I am a coffee addict.

I like the light, dark and weird roasts.

It should be a sin to not drink coffee and work in a coffee shop.

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