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The I Love Coffee Festival

Over 3000 coffee fans indulged in some of the country’s finest coffee last Saturday at the first ever I Love Coffee Festival held at the Neighbourgoods Market. The day started off with a rather serious chill in the air but soon warmed up to a typical Capetonian pseudo-winter’s day, which brought out the masses. Playing [...]

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The I Love Coffee Run

Yesterday we went on our first I Love Coffee run, spreading the coffee love across Cape Town. We delivered over 50 coffees to people in Green Point, Woodstock and town. A huge thanks to Origin, Rosetta and Bean There for donating the delicious coffee for the run – you guys rock! To those of you [...]

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The I Love Coffee Run – spreading the love.

It’s Valentines Day and we are spreading the coffee love! We’ll be doing an I Love Coffee Run across the Mother City delivering coffee from a number of our favourite roasters. Follow our movements on Twitter, tell us where you are and we could be delivering a coffee to you. The Coffee Run is inspired [...]

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The Perfect Cup

We asked David Donde from Truth the question of what constitutes the perfect cup. This is what he had to say. As those Stones with no moss once said, “you can’t always get what you want…” Getting the perfect cup when going out can turn into a needlessly daunting prospect. You are going to drop [...]

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The Syphon Coffee Maker

So this is what a syphon coffee maker looks like… without his top on. Quite a sexy little number, isn’t he? Besides being nice to look at what makes this guy so special? Well, it’s rather simple really – it all boils down to flavour. The syphon coffee maker produces a more clarified, delicate cup [...]

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The Tin Lizzie of roasters.

If there were such a thing as old school roaster porn, this would be it. Built by The Emmericher Maschinenfabrik & EisengieBerei Company, who later changed their name to Probat, this beauty can be found at Colombo Tea & Coffee Co. in Durbs. The gigantic coal-fired roaster dates pre-WWI and gives a taste of how [...]

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The Vuvuzela

Love them or hate them, they are here to stay!

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There is something you should know…

It’s the long weekend, baby, and it begins tonight! Get down to the Old Biscuit Mill for the Eat In night market where they will be announcing the winners of the 2011 SAB Eat In Produce Awards and launching this year’s edition of Eat In magazine. The best that SA’s small producers have to offer [...]

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There’s something you should know about coffee drinkers….

Photo taken in Singapore. Via a friend of a friend…

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Toffie Food Festival

The Toffie Food Festival and Conference is just around the corner and if you haven’t got your ticket yet we’ve got some good news. Toffie Food is a 2-day food festival and conference jam-packed with tastings, food exhibitions, workshops, a cookbook shop, a food market and talks from local and international food experts. International guest [...]

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Toffie Pop 2012

It’s Toffie Pop Festival time again, folks, and if you haven’t got yourselves a ticket yet then it’s best you get moving. The conference and festival takes place this weekend at the Cape Town City Hall and tickets are available here. If you don’t have time for the whole shebang you can attend one of [...]

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Traveling Coffee Cup in Mozambique

The Traveling Coffee Cup made its first journey to Mozambique, visiting Maputo, Tofo and Inhambane. Watch this space for its next exciting trip.

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