The Feast’s Matt Duckor rounds up his 15 favorite iced coffees in New York City. They’re listed according to Feast Rank, which puts Stumptown Coffee Roasters on top.
Seems to be shaping up into the summer of iced coffee.
- Oliver Strand
This page on coffee is curated by Oliver Strand, a journalist who writes regularly for the Dining section of The New York Times. Contributors include experts Nicholas Cho, Mike White and Tim Wendelboe. The posts can also be found on the Times Topics page on Coffee.
Ask me anything
July 12, 2011
Iced Man
July 1, 2011
One, Two, Three
In the New Yorker’s “Book Bench,” Macy Halford praises Stumptown’s stubbies, reviews “Coffee Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate” and muses on how well some coffee heavies and financial giants are getting along. She writes, “many think this could mark the end of the high-philosophy coffee third wave.”
Which leads her to pose a question that was bound to be asked at some point: are we heading into coffee’s fourth wave?
- Oliver Strand
June 9, 2011
June 2, 2011
Stumptown To Expand
There’s more on Stumptown over on the Diner’s Journal, and what the coffee company is going to do with the recent investment from TSG Consumer Partners, the private equity group: open a pair of coffee bars in Brooklyn; add a bottling facility for Stumptown “stubbies” in Red Hook; and look to open a roaster in Chicago and another in San Francisco.
- Oliver Strand
May 31, 2011
He Said, They Said
The internets are burning up with the rumor that Stumptown was sold to a private equity firm a private equity firm bought a stake in Stumptown. Earlier today Todd Carmichael, the man behind la Colombe, wrote in a blog post for Esiqure.com titled “The End of Stumptown, America’s Hippest Coffee Brand,” that Duane Sorenson, Stumptown’s founder, “sold his life’s work to the highest bidder.”
Then Ben Waterhouse of the Wilamette Week blogged Carmichael’s story, and added some sleuthing of his own. He writes: “On April 28, Stumptown Coffee Corp., a foreign business corporation (that is, a business based outside of the state of Oregon), filed an “application for authority.” Stumptown Coffee Corp is a distinct entity from Stumptown Coffee Roasters, the Oregon corporation registered to the company’s founder, Duane Sorenson, since 2000. It lists as its president and secretary Alexander S Panos, with the address of Stumptown’s headquarters on Southeast Division Street.”
He notes that Panos is a part of “TSG Consumer Partners, a private equity firm with investments in Vitamin Water and Voss of Norway, among many other companies.”
Now Eater.com PDX is aggregating, ditto Grub Street NY, while Sprudge.com tries to get to the bottom of it.
So far nothing has been confirmed or denied by Stumptown.
Stay tuned…
- Oliver Strand
April 21, 2011
Cafe Pedlar: Shorter Days
Is the Stumptown-driven Cafe Pedlar on Clinton Street curbing coffee service? Bowery Boogie seems to think so, posting this email from a reader who reports that the adjoining Frankies 17 restaurant is cutting its hours and restricting service to dinner and brunch - and taking the coffee with it.
April 1, 2011
"Had Gimme! coffee, filter drip, with half and half, at home. Is this the time to talk about coffee? No more Stumptown after they charged me $17.50 for thirteen ounces of whole bean. When I asked why it was so much more than equally delicious Gorilla or Gimme! beans, the guy said, “Well, we really pay attention to quality.” Ouch. I’m so glad to be in the coffee heaven we are in in NYC right now, where you can now get coffee that tastes of the bean and not just the roast, but on my Gimme! bag it actually says, among other things: “Aroma: hot chocolate cake, Italian leather; Body: buttery with chrome-velvet texture,” which just makes me groan and wince."
— Gabrielle Hamilton, chef of Prune and author of the best-selling Blood, Bones and Butter, as quoted on Grub Street Diet
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