[Designate]

(10-02-2015 05:56 PM)bootyhuntah Wrote:  

BOGOTA

Devotion Café - located in the ground floor of the Hilton Hotel on Carrera 7 b/w Calle 72 and 73. I believe there is another location but this is the most convenient one. The coffee is pricy but they serve perhaps the best coffee that I tasted in Bogotá. As the location referenced is part of the hotel, it isn't the most interesting place, but the area is safe and the it is easily accessible. I recommend the pourovers here, ask for a V60 or something similar. You can also buy their beans, also pricy.

Amor Perfecto - Carrera 4 #66-46 - Perhaps home of my second favorite coffee in Bogota. These guys have a brewing/tasting lab on site and are home of some barista champions. They have several blends as well as single origin options. Very good espresso as well as manual brewing methods. It is a nice date spot with a good, though cozy fitout and some limited food options as well. It is also located in a nice neighborhood of Zona G which is a great area for gastronomy in general.

Azahar - Carrera 14 #9348 - My third-favorite Bogotá coffee shop. Located in the Parque 93 area, this is basically a small outdoorsy cafe that utilizes a shipping container as a housing for the cafe building itself. They have very good coffees from around the famous coffee-producing regions of Colombia like Huila, Nariño, Quindió, etc. and have some tasty baked treats as well. Good for espresso and pour-over options as well. I recommend the V60 Nariño. Ok date spot but highly dependent on the very sketchy Bogotá weather as this place is open-air.

Café Cultor - Calle 69 #6-20 - Last but not least is this place. Also a converted shipping container fitout and also located in the Zona G. I recommend their single-origin pourover options as they were very good as well.

All are great spots. You never lead us astray, Bootyhuntah.

I was going to Cafe Cultor a lot since it was close to my pad and they have a great doble, but it's located next to the Bogota Impact Hub, an affiliate to the main American SJW-type organization.

Nearly every time I've gone there has been some American style liberal yuppie bullshit going on. Like a farmers market selling overpriced "artisanal" goods chocked full of the very least desirable Americans. Postmenopausal butch lesbians. Ellen Pao Asian-American types. Overweight uptalking "men". A real sight for sore eyes for someone who is currently trying to take refugee from these freaks thousands of miles away.

Anyways.. back to the cafe. I found a spot I personally like better than all those above.

Bourbon Coffee Roasters, Cl. 70a #13-83
Simply put, these guys know what the fuck they are doing. Very rich and mellow espresso. Great pour over. They've got all sorts of contraptions for making coffee, some I don't even know what they are. They roast their own beans and sell some good stuff to take home as well. Good date spot.

[bootyhuntah]

Designate, solid suggestion brotha. I remember that place. Totally forgot to include in this list but glad you mentioned it.

And that sounds horrible about the Cultor situation. Goddamn that new crowd at Cultor seems hideously annoying. Glad you found your new spot in Bogotá.

[Ivanis]

Loving the thread. Great intel man.

[bootyhuntah]

MEXICO

MEXICO CITY (cont'd)

Quentin Café - Av. Álvaro Obregón 64, Roma Nte. - Tiny little shop located in Roma Norte neighborhood. This will probably be your best espresso in Mexico City (and perhaps all of Mexico), due to their offering beans from Heart Coffee (a Portland, Oregon Coffee roaster) at the time of my visit. I got a great double espresso here for about 45 MXN, as well as a respectable Kalita Wave of a Guatamalan bean that was pretty good for 50 MXN. My girl typically doesn't like espresso and she really liked the espresso here, so that's saying something.

If you're craving a proper coffee in Mexico City, this will be one of your more convenient options as its relatively central and in one of my favorite CDMX neighborhoods. The cafe itself would be date-worthy, although it's tiny and the seating is intimately arranged. You can also pick up bags of beans if that's your thing. On their blackboard they have a sign that reads, "Make Coffee Great Again" followed by, "F*ck Trump." As a strong Trump supporter, I found it to be funny although not surprising. Didn't find a single Mexican Trump supporter in my two weeks there...