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NYC Cafe Introduces $12 Coffee

This cup o' joe is quite fancy

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted May 3, 2010 12:19 PM CDT

(Newser) – Attention coffee snobs: You have a new mecca. Starting today Café Grumpy in (where else?) New York will offer a $12 cup of coffee. That’s just coffee—not a cappuccino or a latte—so why the high price tag? “There are flavors you would expect in a really nice glass of wine,” the president of the distribution company tells the New York Post, going so far as to call it “a cacophony of nuances.”

Brewed from handpicked beans grown in Ethiopia and “dried on a raised African drying bed,” the result is a coffee with “flavors of apricot, pineapple, bergamot, kiwi, and lime,” the prez says—and don’t even think about adding milk and sugar to it, a barista warns, or you will “lose a lot of the nuance.” But how does it taste? “My palate is not at an advanced level for coffee,” says one regular. “A $2.50 cup is fine.”

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GeminiMishy
May 4, 2010 3:36 PM CDT
$12 a cup for coffee brewed by beans from Ethiopia that they probably paid $12 a drum to get.
thudson
May 4, 2010 2:46 PM CDT
Via Gothamist comments:
"As the beans lay on the African drying bed, they are read the story of the Lion King and sung to by a chorus of Ethopian school children. Next, they are hand massaged with soft leather strips made from white rhinos and then shipped off in solid gold containers. The end result is a steaming cup of sef importance so profound that your inner yupster will cry out for joy" - by kazubes http://gothamist.com/2010/05/0...
Cat-Lover
May 3, 2010 11:34 PM CDT
Are there free refills?

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