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To the baristas, you guys are seriously the worst in the city. I have never had a single drink made by you people that did not taste like absolute undrinkable shit. Seriously, if there was a give-no-fucks olympics you would win, so congratulations I suppose.
—Dalhousie Goer
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2016.
13 Comments
mmmmm – tastes like ethical with a double shot of hipster smug
Your first problem is going to a place that calls coffee slingers, baristas.
Anything but coffee and water is not coffee.
Here’s the answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDrh5pujB9…
Haha you are like that guy in Mulholland Drive
There are exactly six good cafes that I know of in Halifax: Two if by Sea, Anchored on Quinpool, Lion & Bright (though they have major barista-quality control issues), Narrow Espresso on Fenwick (ditto on barista problems though–stop dumping all that water in my Americano!), Jave Blend, and most recently Seven Bays. That’s it. Everything else I’ve tried is shit, though I admittedly haven’t been to every coffee joint.
And I’m not a coffee snob, I just don’t like coffee that tastes like hot water steeped in cigarette ashes (ahem, Just Us).
^^^ JereBat, is there anywhere you recommend for a good Americano?
A lot of the coffee shops seem to be “selling” something other than coffee – social justice, hipster chic, a WI/FI parking spot with wall outlets for your laptop …… It doesn’t surprise me that there aren’t many that actually focus on really good coffee.
JereBat– you know an Americano is hot water and espresso, right?
L & B, Anchored/TIBS, and Seven Bays all seem to do good americanos. (Again, L&B if you get a good barista). Narrow and Java Blend do them too, but you have to make sure they don’t dump too much water in. It’s a personal preference, but an americano shouldn’t be one or two shots of espresso and then a whole cup filled up with hot water. It should be like a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of water to espresso. Otherwise it just tastes like hot black water.
If I go just for coffee I get my nicotine infused Tim’s. The only the thing I like more is the coffee that’s served at some actual restaurants which has that homebrew taste that I don’t seem to be able to replicate at home. That said I can think of a couple hisptery coffee shops were the coffee tastes like it was filtered through a homeless man’s undies, let to sit for 6 hours at room temperature, and then heated up in a microwave and served. I’d rather drink 3 hour old coffee from a gas station than that stuff.
Ultramar @ Gottingen/Almon has good drip.
@ Bro Tim 1
Ever hear the one that said, “I’m a petroleum dispensing technician.”
Really! What is that? “I pump gas.”
Whats with those football sized chocolate filled ‘croissants’ anyway?