Author: ayr

Clover at Google

Forgot to share this with you all. A few weeks back (2/26) Rolando and I were invited to share our food with the hungry folks

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LA Truck Scene

LA may have the most active new food truck scene in the country. Most of these new trucks are old taco trucks that have been

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Food carts in Portland

We’d heard that Portland had “100s” of food trucks. So while up there Rolando and I were excited to learn about the food truck scene.

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Hype and reality

I thought this entry would be about Kogi as the antithesis of Clover. All hype, all image, no community, all meat, annoying capitalization of Ls

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Ecco coffee

My expectations were low. Ecco was bought by Intelligentsia recently. They’re best known for “seasonal coffee,” something I think is marketing hype. I don’t like

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Portland coffee scene

If you’ve been frequenting the truck lately you’ll notice all of those bags. This picture was taken at Barista, no kidding, that’s what they named

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Stumpy (Portland, OR)

What did I love so much about Stumptown? First, the door to their roastery was wide open, welcoming us in. Everybody in there was hustling,

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Intelly Venice

The lists vary slightly, but talk to coffee folks and the following will typically show up on lists of “top roasters in the US” Stumptown

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