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Jenni Bryant from Gimme! Coffee

15 Sep

Starbarista recently caught up with Gimme! Coffee‘s Jenni Bryant at their recently-opened espresso bar in NYC’s NoLiTa neighbourhood. Gimme! started up in 2000 with a single espresso bar in Ithaca, upstate New York. They now have four shops in the Ithaca area as well as a roastery. In 2003 Gimme! made their first foray into NYC when they opened a location in Brooklyn’s trendy Williamsburg neighbourhood. In this podcast, Jenni talks about coffee and how it brings people together.

Barista Profile: Doug Wolfe of La Colombe

12 Sep


Starbarista recently caught up with Doug Wolfe, a prominent barista who works at the La Colombe cafe in New York City’s Tribeca, a place where you might see a Hollywood star rubbing shoulders with Senagalese street vendors. This podcast also features the voice of Todd Carmichael, who founded La Colombe along with his business partner Jean-Philippe Iberti in 1993 in Philadelphia.