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Post by Clipper on Nov 30, 2020 7:46:01 GMT -5
www.josephputrellocoffee.com/I immediately thought of you PB when I read about this new coffee place specializing in Italian coffee drinks. I know how you love your special Italian coffee. Have you tried this place yet. I was trying to envision where 268 Genesee St. is located. Is it along Genesee near the old Oneida National Bank building?
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Post by Ralph on Nov 30, 2020 13:59:57 GMT -5
It's actually right inside the entrance to the old Oneida National Bank building.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 15:49:50 GMT -5
No the prices for coffee there are way above my price range. He wants to get richer as fast as he can I think. Prices at his Blue Restaurant are also above my range. I will go to Caruso so Florentine when I feel the urge for a special coffee. I only drink espresso anyway. I don't mind paying around two dollars a shot. Also these two places have inexpensive delicious pastries. These new coffee places that opened along Genny are to expensive for me. The Urban Market charged me $4.50 for a cannoli. I also have two Bialetti espresso coffee pots so I love to make espresso at home. www.bialetti.com/it_en/ I have the one cup pot I want to buy a 3 cup one I have to check the restaurantsupply store down Bleecker St. |
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Post by Clipper on Nov 30, 2020 18:20:12 GMT -5
How do you actually brew espresso with one of those pots you showed? I saw one of those at a garage sale not long ago. Maybe I should have bought it. I like strong black coffee. Do you think I would like espresso PB?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 20:36:31 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Nov 30, 2020 22:19:22 GMT -5
I hate to sound naive, but I honestly don't know the first thing about such things. Is what you drink the same stuff that Starbuck's sells from that machine that makes all the noise and makes steamed milk and such for the coffee or is that something different. I just never paid much attention. Now everyone is buying all that special stuff at McDonald's and raving about it. Carmel macchiato is a favorite that one of Kathy's girlfriends always brings with her when we are bowling. I guess I better get with the program here, haha. I am just a simple unsophisticated person I guess. I drink my coffee black. I used to put milk and sugar in it. That has been the extent of my coffee adventures, haha. I don't picture myself buying any $1000 coffee machines. Keurig is as high tech as I get, haha. I think the simplest coffee I ever drank was when I was fishing with a friend in Minnesota. We were having a shore lunch with some fresh walleye filets, fried potatoes with onions, and cowboy coffee. He just boiled water in a sauce pan over the fire, threw in a sandwich bag of coffee grounds and boiled it until it looked like coffee. Then he took a cup of cold lake water and poured it in to settle the grounds to the bottom of the pan. He carried that little sauce pan in his truck and on cold days he would bring canned soup. Soup and coffee were made with lake water. Northern Minnesota lakes are clean enough to cook with. We usually carried a 10 inch cast iron skillet behind the seat of our pickups and when we went fishing we took along a stick of margarine, a potato, and an onion. When we caught fish, we just sliced the potato and onion and cooked it in the margarine, while our fishing partner cooked the fish in HIS iron skillet. I still have my shore lunch skillet. We use it to bake cornbread now. On days we didn't catch fish, we had to settle for fried potatoes with onions.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 11:15:15 GMT -5
Making and drinking coffee in Italy is an act of love. Just like when you cook spaghetti. You need a lot of boiling water so it makes love to the pasta.
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Post by dicklaurey on Dec 1, 2020 13:57:32 GMT -5
Joseph's father, Andy, was in my 1959 graduating class, at UFA.
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Post by BHU on Dec 1, 2020 15:25:33 GMT -5
We had a Keurig but gave it away because they only brew one cup at a time. We've been buying New England coffe, breakfast blend. Good stuff & at about 8. for a 24 oz. bag at Wally World the price is affordable compared to Utica Coffee at 10. for a 10oz. bag online.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 17:08:49 GMT -5
Four Dollars for a single shot of espresso at Motus. I would thing the other places charge near that. A container or bag of espresso will make at least 60 cups ( single shots) of coffee. At $4.00 per cup do the math it is ridiculous. I bought a bad of Monks Blend coffee from some Trappist Monks but I paid $14.99. This was once many years ago when I was working a job I could afford that. Some prices went up: www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvtCXuOWt7QIVWwiICR1mig3HEAAYASAAEgK7LPD_BwEIt is heavenly tasting! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 11:03:51 GMT -5
Here ya go fancy Italian coffees?  Looks more like dessert!  Nice cappachino.  Way to much cream for me!  Buongiorno ! The baristas are ready to serve you! We are Officially open!! 268 Genesee St. Downtown Utica |
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Post by Clipper on Dec 7, 2020 11:40:22 GMT -5
It's Starbuck's with fancy aprons and table service as far as I can see. Too fancy shmancy for my liking.  Give me drip coffee brewed strong and black, poured in my heavy 14 oz mug. We have a place similar to that in the short stay surgery waiting room at our hospital. $4 for coffee, and another $4 or more for a pastry that sits out on a tray so it is most likely stale by 10am. Eight bucks for coffee and a pastry? Nope, not in this lifetime. I have been contemplating the possible purchase of a French press coffee maker. I can make strong coffee, more than one cup at a time with that and drink it without having my little finger daintily sticking out. My mug is too heavy to hold like that. Making and drinking coffee may be an act of love, but extent of my love ends with popping the pod in my Keurig and slurping up that first l sip of the life giving nectar of the coffee gods. I know. I have absolutely NO culture or sophistication whatsoever. haha. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 12:14:59 GMT -5
I have a French press I use now and then. It does make a great cup of coffee I think because you also get more of the oils the coffee delivers as it brews. My only problem, with it is cleaning it. Mine makes two cups which is great since my mug hold 2 cups!
Those coffee's like that all dressed up like they are going to the ball are not my cup of tea. I like espresso but I drink it black. I am not a fan of cappuccino. The Bosnians here have cappuccino every afternoon in the summer on the patio on side of building.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 8, 2020 17:35:37 GMT -5
I guess looking for a dishwasher safe French press is an exercise in futility, haha. |
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Give me drip coffee brewed strong and black, poured in my heavy 14 oz mug. We have a place similar to that in the short stay surgery waiting room at our hospital. $4 for coffee, and another $4 or more for a pastry that sits out on a tray so it is most likely stale by 10am. Eight bucks for coffee and a pastry? Nope, not in this lifetime.