My wife and I just got back from Chicago...awesome city, shitty coffee.
Well, not completely "shitty". Only shitty when you can't find a Dunkin' Donuts. We spent over and hour one morning hunting one down....only to find one later that night, a block and a half from the hotel.
One thing that annoys me about large cities is Starbucks. These damn things are on every corner. There was one right next to our hotel..and another a half a block away. If you looked out the window of one, you could see the other one. My wife and I both stated multiple times a day how we do not like the coffee there. We had it a few times "any port in a storm" as the saying goes. You need caffeine, you need caffeine. It seems that you need a judicious amount of sugar and cream to make that coffee taste marginally better than #2 heating oil. And "Mochachinos" ain't no Coolata. While I'm ranting...what is up with the people who "hang out" in Starbucks? In the AM, it?s all business people. But any other time of day, it's odd people with black rimmed pseudo Buddy Holly glasses. And they?re either on a Mac laptop or reading poetry. "It's 70 and sunny out people! GET OUTSIDE!"
One thing that did impress me. One morning I hit one before the conference and wanted a coffee...just a coffee; nothing chino'd latte'd or anything that needed to be ordered in pig Latin. I asked for a medium coffee...and got a medium coffee. Impressive.
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