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post #31 of 39
4/14/08 at 8:41pm
Perhaps the cafe in Paris was a Chilis.

I've had café au lait/caffè latte in bowls, glasses and mugs all over North America, Europe and Asia. Never saw reason to get that upset about how it was served.

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post #32 of 39
4/17/08 at 9:41pm
The majority of my experiences of having a latte NOT served in a bowl are at places that only serve coffee as an afterthought. Places that take the time to grind their own beans, have a good selection of beans, knowledgeable staff, etc., almost always serve a latte in a bowl.
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post #33 of 39
4/19/08 at 1:58am
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So you're calling the practice pretentious but you'll adopt it when you see it used at the most pretentious places you frequent, with no regard to the fact that they're not in any way specialized in serving coffee. And you still deny what everyone tells you; that's how it is usually served! Look, it's just a bowl, you didn't know, now you do, just let it pass and nobody is forcing you to drink coffee like that but don't deny it is a common and accepted practice and don't act surprised, it makes you look like an out of touch bore.

Nice restaurants and country clubs are not pretentious by virtue of their being, neither are coffee houses. Coffee houses that serve coffee in bowls are. I'm sorry, no one has convinced me this is common, one-off random examples of coffee houses that serve it this way is not proof.
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post #34 of 39
4/19/08 at 2:29am
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Nice restaurants and country clubs are not pretentious by virtue of their being, neither are coffee houses. Coffee houses that serve coffee in bowls are. I'm sorry, no one has convinced me this is common, one-off random examples of coffee houses that serve it this way is not proof.

There was a study published in 2006 by famed Harvard University professor Dr. Herschel Hinkleboam that proved without any doubt that a minimum of 62% of "establishments that, as a main source of income, served coffee products" served some form of coffee in a "bowl shaped vessel without handles". This study was corroborated by Professor Thy Nguyen of MIT and Dr. Noel Charles of the British Institute of Liquid Receptacles.
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post #35 of 39
4/19/08 at 10:40am
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Nice restaurants and country clubs are not pretentious by virtue of their being, neither are coffee houses. Coffee houses that serve coffee in bowls are. I'm sorry, no one has convinced me this is common, one-off random examples of coffee houses that serve it this way is not proof.

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post #36 of 39
4/20/08 at 12:33am
If you travel much at all in Europe, you'll eventually find places that serve cafe au lait in bowls without mugs. Usually at the most unpretentious places.
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post #37 of 39
4/20/08 at 1:21am
I've been to the Holt's Cafe on Bloor St. in Toronto. While I can't say much about their coffee, their poilane bread sandwiches are very very good... and absurdly priced. Still, I liked it.
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post #38 of 39
4/20/08 at 12:21pm
cafe latte was the old italian breakfast.. boil the milk, add a shot or two of stovetop moka to it in a bowl, and dip your dry/stale bread in it.. this gave one a way to use the remains of yesterdays bread and get the calories needed for the hard days labor ahead..

my old roommate, from Lyon, only drank his coffee from a bowl when he first arrived.. his tea from a proper cup..
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post #39 of 39
4/20/08 at 12:42pm
One of my previous co-workers would drink his coffee with a straw because of a teeth whitening procedure which he had completed.
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