All things coffee
Next to Ivanoff House is Mocco Café. The café sign prompted us to enter. This tiny café was filled with cakes, cookies and pastries at the check out counter. Most customers were purchasing coffee and pastries to go. Upon finding our seats we realized Mocco Café is part of …
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Historical buildings, bridges and squares adorned Nevsky Prospekt, the main avenue of St. Petersburg. To find a place for coffee is not easy if you walk along the crowded street without a guidebook or knowledge of the Russian language. It was easy to spot Ivanoff House. It has …
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A fancy breakfast with coffee at the Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg cost over $50 per person. For a mere $2.50 per person we had coffee and pirozhki-to-go from the food/coffee truck at the Palace Square St. Petersburg. Does coffee taste better when you pay a …
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Inside this well guarded luxury hotel is a maze. It was not easy to find our rooms even after several tries on the third floor. Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg is an authentic 19th century Russian palace where most of the original beauty has been restored including …
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The concierge at Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg suggested Café Singer when asked where the best place for coffee in St. Petersburg is. Located next to Kempinski Hotel at Nevsky Prospect the city’s main street, Café Singer offers a panoramic view of Kazan …
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Coffee plays a huge part in daily life in Iceland. Great cafes are everywhere in the city of Reykjavik. You can even find one inside the Hellisheiði Power Plant located 20 minutes drive from Reykjavík on Route 1 towards east and Hveragerdi. Cafe Energy is the last stop for the …
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Our tour guide said while in Reykjavik we must visit a bookstore. So we headed over to Eymundsson on Austurstræti 18, in the older part of Reykjavik. Eymundsson has three locations in the city. When you are in Eymundsson you are ‘killing two birds with one stone’, that is to …
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Tiu Dropar utilizes social media really well. We knew about the café before leaving for Reykjavik. Guess which café came top in our list of cafes to visit? Tiu Dropar of course. Located in a basement with a side entrance door on the busy shopping street of Laugavegur, entering …
Located in Ace Hotel, an early 20th century building surrounded by scaffolding, you can’t really tell from the outside that there is a café on the left of the main entrance. The coffee aroma instantly hit us as we tried to adjust to the dimly lit lobby with a long table, …
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Nita’s European Bakery on 4010 Greenpoint Avenue, Sunnyside Queens offers no Wi-Fi or the convenience of using a credit card but the place has the best baked goods. As for the coffee, let’s talk about that later. Décor and ambience This is not a fancy place but we love the …
