A Guide to Great Portland Coffee Portland has a collective passion about coffee that’s borderline obsessive. It’s easy to find beans freshly roasted to your tastes here, as well as that velvety ambrosia known as a properly made cappuccino. While we won’t claim Portland is the top coffee city in the world, or the U.S. – Read more…
Portland Coffee House News and Reviews
Portland Oregon is known for its coffee scene, so we tend to cover a lot of news and reviews of coffee houses. You'll find examples of some of our favorites from all over the Portland metro listed here.
Coffee Guide: Either/Or
Either/Or Coffeehouse brings a whole new level of creativity to Portland coffee When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at Either/Or Books in Hermosa Beach, California. For sentimental reasons, I drove over to Either/Or coffeehouse in Sellwood to check it out. I’m not sure if the name is based on Kierkegaard’s book, but – Read more…
Barista Coffee Exclusive Espresso Menu for Coffee Fest this Weekend
Coffee Fest 2015, the coffee industry trade show, is taking place in Portland this weekend – from the 23rd to the 25th. To mark the event, Barista Coffee is offering an exclusive espresso menu at their shops – a red bourbon coffee varietal from one farm that’s been processed three different ways. Owner Billy Wilson says, – Read more…
Water Avenue Coffee Signs Lease on New Roasting Facility
This is good news. I always enjoy Water Avenue Coffee, even though I bang my head on the bottom of their china cabinet every time I’m there. It has a comfortable vibe, good coffee and pie holes. What more could you want? The dog likes it too, because it means he’s walking the waterfront loop. – Read more…
Reader Survey 2015: Best Coffeehouse in Portland
The number of coffeehouses that have opened over the past few years made untangling the votes for Best Coffeehouse in Portland a challenge. We love our coffee, and judging by the comments, many of us have strong preferences about coffeehouses. For this survey I left out “Best Roaster” for another survey, because I wanted to – Read more…
Reader Survey 2013: Best Coffeehouse in Portland
Once again I asked the question, “what is the best coffeehouse in Portland?” As always, the results proved interesting. In 2012, the ranking was: 1) Ristretto Roasters, 2) Barista Coffee, 3) Stumptown Coffee, 4) Heart, 5) Coava, 6) Coffeehouse NW, and 7) Extracto. For 2013, everything has changed. Out of 1704 votes: 1. Barista Coffee – 18.74% – Read more…
Reader Survey 2013: Best Coffee Roaster in Portland
When readers voted a year ago for the Best Coffee Roaster in Portland, there was a bit of an upset, with Ristretto Roasters barely edging out Stumptown coffee. This year things have flipped a bit. Let’s review the top three 2012 results first: Ristretto Coffee Roasters – 27.9% Stumptown Coffee Roasters – 27.2% Coava Coffee – Read more…
Coffee Guide: Café Velo
Coffee and Bicycling are close cultural twins in Portland. The city has a reputation near and far for being an epicenter of both. Add to this equation Portland’s passion for food carts, and Café Velo appears to be the natural evolution in the Portland coffee scene. What started as a single pedal-powered coffee cart in 2008, – Read more…