Coffee

Turkish coffee in your own kitchen!

There are many stops along the road to adulthood: getting your driver's license, going off to college, taking your first (legal) sip of beer. Before all those, however, there's another: your first cup of coffee. I remember mine clearly. I was a teenager at an outdoor sporting event in Wisconsin. The ... More >>

Starbucks' artsy new mini-modular pops up in metro Denver

The seasonal, pumpkin-flavored coffees and baked goods at Starbucks are my favorite part of fall, and so I head over to my neighborhood Starbucks early -- and often -- to get pumpkin spice lattes, slabs of fragrant pumpkin bread dotted with roasted pumpkin seeds, and iced pumpkin scones. But this ... More >>

Black Eye takes the coffee-drinking experience to a richer level

Like beer, marijuana and oxygen bars, Colorado has quickly developed a subculture of people who like to geek-out on coffee, enjoying the everyday beverage on a level far beyond the utilitarian purpose of a quick stimulant. "We're here to deliver more than just caffeine; that's just a perk," says Ali ... More >>

Photos: Drip opens in the Beauvallon

"Denver is an amazing coffee city," says Chris Dohse, manager of Drip Denver, "and we're excited to be part of its coffee culture." Not long ago, the future of dining and retail at the beleaguered Beauvallon building looked bleak. But with Drip, which just opened its doors on Monday in the former h ... More >>

Bean Lab Coffee Roasters sets its sights on the Lower Highland neighborhood

As Denver's coffee culture expands, Travis Gilbert and Greg Gerken, both coffee shop veterans, want to give consumers the chance to go deeper into exactly what they like about their cups of Joe because, claims Gilbert, "a lot of people don't know much about why they like coffee."

Baby-ccinos? Five coffee drinks for niche markets

Cappuccinos for kids? On a recent episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert tipped his hat to Brooklyn baristas for creating the diminutive coffee drinks and "hooking babies on the foam dragon." And why not? Getting our nation's spawn to recognize the dual benefits of espresso addiction and eff ... More >>

Corvus Coffee will open a shop on South Broadway

Coffee started as a hobby for Phil Goodlaxson, owner of Corvus Coffee. "I have a business degree, I did the corporate life for a bit, and when I'd had enough of that, I started looking for something that would be an artisan craft. I started getting more and more interested in coffee," he explains. ... More >>

Huckleberry Roasters adds more coffee to the Ballpark side of Larimer

Koan Goedman, one of the top-notch baristas at Crema Coffee House, has always wanted to own his own coffee shop. But after a trip to Coffee Fest in Seattle last year, he began pondering the idea of a roastery, too. "I started talking to the Diedrich's roasters, who were there with a bunch of samples ... More >>

2914 Coffee will soon be pouring near 25th and Federal

2914 Coffee​For five years, Anthony Davis has been a barista and manager at North Boulder's Amante, where he learned to pour shots and style out lattes with art. But this spring, the coffee enthusiast is striking out on his own closer to his Highland neighborhood home, opening 2914 Coffee at 2 ... More >>

Two Rivers Coffee in Arvada pours an excellent cup of Joe

Two Rivers Coffee​So many coffee shops... so few actually doing coffee and espresso drinks right. And even fewer that are owned or operated by people who really know their beans. Eric Yochim knows his beans.

Ozo Coffee Co. offers free brew bar tastings on Fridays

Ozo CoffeeJustin Hartman and crew will offer free brew bar tastings on Fridays​When Ozo expanded into downtown Boulder, opening a shop on the West End of Pearl Street, it also added a new feature for coffee lovers: a brew bar, which gives Ozo the capability of brewing to order three ways. To ... More >>

Coffee at The Point is officially open for business

J. WohletzCoffee at The Point​Coffee at The Point opened for business this week, with the full beverage, food and dessert menu available to Crossroads Theater patrons next door and anyone else who needs a kidney-punch of espresso made with Denver's own Novo coffee. Owners Ryan Cobbins, his wi ... More >>

Conscious Coffees is Roast Magazine's micro roaster of the year

​Unless you count the tented stand at the Boulder farmers' market from which a couple of employees proffer tin cans of coffee beans and steaming-hot cups of joe, Mark and Mel Glenn's Boulder-based Conscious Coffees doesn't have a retail outlet. The coffee, though, is everywhere, the beans of c ... More >>

Five reasons your barista hates you

​Your baristas are a delicate breed of human -- they are perfectionists when it comes to their craft and sensitive when it comes to social aptitude. Much like bartenders, they are stuck dealing with people at their worst -- un-caffeinated, early in the morning and grumpy. If you get the feel ... More >>

Aviano Coffee delivers on promise to take Denver coffee to a whole new level

​We got a little too hopped up on caffeine this weekend -- to the point of heart palpitations, in fact -- because we couldn't stop sucking down the cappuccinos at Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue, which reopened a month ago in a former Peaberry's shop in Cherry Creek.

Aviano Coffee's Cherry Creek grand opening slated for Friday

Doug and Saadia Naiman ready for the rebirth of Aviano.​It was a sad day for Denver coffee connoisseurs when Doug and Saadia Naiman, owners of Aviano Coffee, finally gave up on their bitter struggle with the beleaguered Beauvallon condo complex and closed the doors on their posh coffee shop in ... More >>

Crema the Crop

Leave room for cream and sugar at Hot-Chick-A-Latte

Salvaghetti's bike-thru coffee (and parts) window will make cyclists Happy

Salvaghetti​Scott Taylor wants Denver residents to wake up every morning in the coolest cycling city in the world - and he plans to help by serving them coffee from a bike-thru window. The owner of the Salvaghetti Bicycle Workshop at 1611 Platte Street opened the bike-thru, called Happy Coffe ... More >>

Starbucks gets the royal treatment from Burger King

​Starbucks must be in a cup of hot water. Why else would it team up with Burger King to sell its branded "Seattle's Best Coffee" this summer, at prices ranging from $1 to $2.79 for a cup of java? McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts have been pumping out their own signature coffee for the past couple ... More >>

Sugar High: Novo peppermint mocha

Liz Kellermeyer​Black Friday is upon us. Whether you're nuts and arrived at stores pre-dawn to snag the deals, or you're a stay-away-from-the-malls-at-all-costs type, everyone can benefit from a little caffeine boost after a day of carb-loading. If you're near downtown, where better to fuel up tha ... More >>

Free Starbucks coffee taste test starts today

​Starbucks, the giant java company with a storefront on a street corner near you, is joining the instant coffee market with a free taste test in every store beginning at 10 a.m. today and continuing through Monday, October 5. The national chain officially introduced VIA Ready Brew, its trio of ... More >>

Candy Girls: Crackheads

Liz KellermeyerWe must be looking a little tired around the office, because a co-worker recently bestowed this candy upon us. Hey, we don't look gift horses in the mouth, we just put them in our mouths. The gifts, that is. The candy.  Maybe we need a couple more of these...

Common Grounds left its liquor license behind in move

Common Grounds, the popular LoDo coffeehouse that's a sibling of the original in northwest Denver, barely missed a beat when it moved last week from 1601 17th Street across the street to 1550 17th, in the old Sugarbeat Café space (the entrance is on Wazee Street). But somewhere along the way, Comm ... More >>

Common Grounds loses ground

There's a sign in the window of the Common Grounds at 1601 17th Street, and it's not good news. The landlord has put this prime piece of real estate up for lease, and that means LoDo could lose a great local coffeehouse (and a barista who was once on Survivor). There's a latte to love about this pla ... More >>

Local barista champ Greg Lefcourt is pulling for a win at the US Barista Competition

Caffeine fiends one and all should bow down to barista Greg Lefcourt. Longtime coffee jock and manager at OZO Coffee at 5340 Arapahoe Ave in Boulder, Lefcourt took home the gold at the Mountain Regional Barista Competition on January 18 in Thornton, leaving in his coffee dust barista competitors f ... More >>

Buzz Off

Starbucks Tazo Tea Lattes

Starbucks is unveiling a new set of beverages this month, Tazo Tea Lattes and Tazo Tea Infusions. I snagged one of the coupons that allow you to try one for free, and if there is one thing I'm a total sucker for it's free food and drink. The friendly barista at the Speer location (the one handi ... More >>

C.R.E.A.M. skims the surface in Cherry Creek

287 Columbine Street is now home to C.R.E.A.M. It replaced Java Creek about two weeks ago, and will be doing similar, but not identical, work.  "We're going to be much more coffee-focused, doing higher-level barista work," explains barista Amanda Sapir. "Our coffee is being roasted by C ... More >>

The sweet, sweet taste of Buchi’s Cuban coffee

On DenverBoulderCoffee.com, baristas tell all

Coffee Klatch for a Cause

Pass Around the Cup for One of Denver’s Top Roasters

Free French Underground

Does Novo Have the Best Beans?

A Latte Love at the Mountain Regional Barista Competition

Baristas Abuzz With Caffeinated Competition

Coffee lovers are buzzing about Denver's first-ever battle of the baristas, and things could get frothy.

Of Coffee and Commerce

A latte work

False Gold

Pot of Gold

Joseph Brodsky has a nose for great coffee. It led him all the way to Ethiopia, in search of the Geisha.

A 'Cure for Mondays

Java Moon

A new Moon is rising.

Coffee's On

Monkey Bean doesn't monkey around.

Best Coffee in a Bookstore

Ichabod's Books

Bite Me

Full of Beans

Bean There, Done That

Golden's independent coffee shops become the latest Starbucks targets.

The Bite

Check it out!

Food Fetishes

In our cups

Pour Me