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Tires are pumped … the doors are open! ~ Handlebar Coffee Roasters, Santa Barbara, California

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

One of my favorite things to do, be a weekend, a day off, or a holiday is to hit the road to beautiful Santa Barbara just about an hour and thirty minutes away from home, and during one of those visits about 6 months ago we spotted a sign that read Handlebar Coffee Roasters Opening Soon, on Canon Perdido, not too far from the location of the weekly SB Farmers Market. When I got home I looked for more information about it and found Handlebar Coffee Roaster’s website/blog, since then I’d been following them on their blog and twitter waiting for an announcement about their grand opening… until early November when they wrote:

Tires are pumped….the doors are open!

So finally last weekend we drove to Santa Barbara and visit Handlebar Coffee, beautiful space, they have their roaster onsite, their coffee is great, and the location is just perfect for a place to peacefully enjoy a cup of coffee. I love good coffee and I’m always looking for new shops to try and love, so this will definitely be a stop for us when in, near or passing by Santa Barbara.

Handlebar is co owned and operated by former World Class, Professional Cyclists Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson, they are super friendly and love sharing wonderful stories about coffee and bikes, while offering excellent customer service.

~ Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson ~

128 E. Canon Perdido St. ~ Santa Barbara, CA. 93101

http://handlebarcoffee.com/

Thank you Kim and Aaron, you are great, so welcoming and so friendly, we’ll be back soon.

~A.

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There’s a New Bakery in Town ~ Semi Sweet Bakery, Downtown Los Angeles

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Yes, there’s a new bakery in beautiful downtown Los Angeles!

Beautiful space, amazing pastries, think classics with a special twist, just plain goodness. We visited last Saturday right at closing time when many of their items were already sold out, but we still were able to try their pop tarts, red velvet ding dongs, 7-up lemon pound cake… all absolutely amazing.

Perhaps it was about a year ago when I read about Semi Sweet coming to downtown, and I’d been waiting for their debut since, totally worth the wait.

Semi Sweet is owned by two great pastry chefs with very impressive backgrounds, Sharlena Fong and Dennis Hunter. I’m so very happy about this bakery, a beautiful an delicious asset to downtown L.A.

Semi Sweet Bakery / 105 E. 6th / Downtown Los Angeles

www.semisweetbakery.com

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Bru Coffee Bar ~ Los Feliz, California

Monday, October 31, 2011

Once again I had the extraordinary opportunity to photograph a great coffee bar, this time it was Bru Coffee Bar in Los Feliz. A beautiful coffee bar with many details, great architectural design, and owned by two amazing and beautiful ladies.

As always, there was no staging, I was there just capturing real life in a beautiful, busy and quite comfortable coffee bar.

Bru Coffee Bar serves Ritual Coffee, a top coffee roaster from San Francisco.

Bru is truly a great shop, serving a great coffee, a gorgeous red La Marzocco, beautiful space and friendly baristas. Bru is located and fitting perfectly in the great city of Los Feliz, an area that is very diverse and it has a great feel of community.