Finance and Commerce runs a long form piece on Bull Run Roasting Company’s ambitious “single cup” coffee bar at Calhoun Village. (Our profile is here.)
Skimming the cream of local food news
The latest from Twitter: @Peace_Coffee plays cupid with “Caffeinate Your Cutie,” @triplerockmpls is serving @surlybrewing Mild at $3.50 a pint, @bittercube celebrates the long-anticipated opening of Eat Street Social, and @Masu_NE will feature a suggestive little Valentine’s Day roll through Tuesday.
The process has started to find a new food vendor for Lake Nokomis [tip from Ed Kohler], winter cheeses, Whole Foods is coming to the intersection of Hennepin and Washington Avenues, the story behind the rise of new Hell’s Kitchen partner Tony Perella, a gorgeous shot of Town Talk Diner from 1954, and a quick primer on third wave coffee (no relation to third wave ska).
The latest from Twitter: @BirchwoodCafe is featuring artwork by WACSO (check out his lively contributions to some of our stories), @fultonbeer’s Sweet Child of Vine is only $3 a pint @ZenBoxIzakaya, @RickNelsonStrib wants to know how you tip, and @MNBeerActivists ask about the best beer for breakfast time.
I particularly liked this sentence
“Hoyt said he got a “front-row seat to an entrepreneurial success’’ as his father-in-law Bob Naegele Jr. brought the hockey team to the Twin Cities.
Good luck to Bull Run Roasting.
Coffee is a competitive market but there is certainly room to be had above the Dunn/Caribou/Starbucks model. Also from a business standpoint securing a retail distribution channel aint all that bad of an idea.