It all started like this: a group of Vickie baristas/ managers/ roasters all gathered around the cupping room table, philosophizing about the experience we were about to undertake (Big questions like: How does deep taste?). Our mission: to taste 12 of the best espresso blends (including ours of course!) from...
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Honey
New this week: The most wholesome breakfast treat ever to grace Victrola- A honey, fig, and hazelnut yogurt parfait. Mmm. Macrina granola and Nancy's whole milk yogurt goodness. $3.65+tax
Like Eating Lemon Bars in a Rose Garden
While general cupping decorum insists that one must not shout out what one thinks something tastes like before others have had a chance to try the coffee for themselves, this past Wednesday, upon trying the yet to be released- but soon to be on the shelves Yirgacheffe Beloya, I exclaimed,...
Second Run, "The Guat" Goes to Victrola on Pike
[gallery] For all of you single origin espresso lovers up at Victrola on 15th, I have good and bad news. First, the bad- after three (very) short weeks up on Fifteenth, the surprising and delightful SO Guatemala Huehuetenango will have, by the time you are reading this, probably already disappeared...
Newbie
While being a Vickie barista may make you popular, it usually doesn't happen as quickly or as with as much panache as it has happened this time. Ok, I may be exaggerating a bit, but last week our brand new barista, Stephen, graced the pages of the Seattle University's newspaper...