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As a total aside, I’ve never seen a coffee shop as busy as I did see City Market Coffeehouse on Saturday morning. People jammed in everywhere, the 3 baristas were brewing as if their lives depended on it.

But the real news is Ethos. The Ethos Coffee Cars of the Ethos Coffee Company are quite a new twist. We’ve had delivery pizza, Chinese, sandwiches, and burritos. But now, you can call up the espresso cars (888-697-2392), they’ll drive to you, and brew you a fresh latte right out the back of their Scion xB. There is a minimum order, just like anywhere else, so grab your friends, but you never again have to whine about there not being a shop nearby! No word yet on how good it tastes.

I stumbled across Ethos at the Celebration at the Station. I could easily see them doing other large events, parking next to the kettle corn trailer and the funnel cake trailer. Its like the ice cream truck… for adults.

Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe & is a fantastic coffee shop (good coffee, great service & atmosphere), and unlike many other shops in town, is expanding!

Eddie is moving 1 block east from his 43rd & State Line location to 43rd & Bell. The website claims there isn’t an ETA for the move yet, but sources say the soft target for the move is June 9th. If you haven’t gotten tasty coffee from a friendly Irishman before, I suggest stopping by the old shop soon and then again after the move. You won’t regret it. Why is it called ‘Cafe &….’? Its because Eddie is not just the proprietor of a coffee shop, he is also a notable local musician. The cafe doubles as a music venue, a bar, and friendly neighborhood meeting point for all.

Now you may say, Scott, just one friendly Irishman is not enough for me with my morning coffee. You’re in luck. For the exact same price, you get as many friendly Irish people as can fit around the back bar. In this picture, you see just one of the 6 I met this morning. Eddie’s got the strongest accent, but it doesn’t stop everybody else from picking up a little bit of it.

When I got to work, I did a little jig.

The non-caffeinated Germans here didn’t understand at all.

[map to Eddie Delahunt's Cafe &]

JP’s Winebar and Coffeehouse is a great little joint, for food, wine, & coffee. Very comfy atmosphere, good coffee, good service, etc, etc. It was about to break into my top 10 coffee shops.

But then they went and shortened their hours. They don’t open till 8AM now, a near-cardinal sin for a coffee shop. They used to open at 6AM, one of the earliest in the area. I suppose we can excuse it a bit in this case since they’re also a fantastic lunch, dinner, and late evening hang-out too.

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What would this city do for coffee without God? A Cup Above is yet another installment of the church-group-fronted coffee shop series. I suppose that its not entirely a bad thing, as coffee shops have a tendancy to be barely-or-un-profitable. They need a 501c3 status to stay afloat.

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