Coffee on the go
In the NYTimes Travel section this Sunday was a feature story about visiting high-quality coffee fincas near Medellin: A Journey to Colombia’s Coffee Belt. As I read that, I pictured my friend, Badi Bradley, in those same hills. Badi is founder and managing partner of coffee distributor Caravela Coffee. He’s a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala; Erin and Badi worked together as Peace Corps recruiters while they were in grad school at UNC-CH. Badi was partner in 3CUPS, a Chapel Hill shop that was one of my regular haunts when I worked on Franklin Street. I wasn’t a coffee drinker until 3CUPS, and now, when I’m traveling, I send Badi a message asking for recommendations for good coffee in whatever city I happen to be visiting.
Here are some of the shops Badi has recommended, and others I’ve visited with family or stumbled upon myself:
- Epoch Coffee North Loop location in Austin, Texas
- Dancing Goats Coffee Bar Ponce de Leon location in Atlanta, Georgia
- Cartel Coffee Lab Ash Avenue location in Tempe, Arizona — the flaky, sweet strawberry pop tart is delicious.
- Phoenix Coffee Ohio City location in Cleveland, Ohio
- Bills Sydney in Honolulu, Hawaii — perfect place to relax after running the marathon, or surfing Rock Piles.
- Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea Logan Square location in Chicago, Illinois
- Metropolis Coffee Loyola University location in Chicago, Illinois
- Savannah Coffee Roasters in Savannah, Georgia — get the gooey sticky bun, and work off the calories by walking from historic square to historic square.
And closer to home:
- Joe van Gogh Coffee Chapel Hill, Durham and Duke campus locations
- Caffe Driade in Chapel Hill
- Cocoa Cinnamon Hillsborough Rd. location in Durham
- Gray Squirrel in Carrboro, sharing space with Yester Years Brewery, and with the best cappuccino I’ve ever had
- Counter Culture in Durham, where we used to take ScienceOnline attendees for the Friday morning coffee cupping
The Times feature about Colombian coffee tourism was good. Maybe I’ll ask Badi if I can tag along with him on his next trip to the fincas of Central and South America.
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