Just a heads up, I will be doing a little Spring Cleaning, so if you see some posts disappear into the ether, it is because they were not portfolio-centric. Most of these posts will still be available in their original form on my blog about coffee in San Diego, San Diego Joe. Feel free to give it a gander. Will hopefully have a couple new reviews up before Memorial Day Weekend for your perusal.
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Sincerely,
JP
My Gramps just passed recently and we were close, so I was feeling a bit fragile yesterday, but the San Diego sun helped encourage me to get out and DO Something, so when I swung into Daily Grinds, I found what we all look for in a family owned business that’s been in the same location for 18 years—warm hospitality and conversation.
Located in the College Area Business District near SDSU on El Cajon Blvd. (adjacent to Montezuma Rd.) Daily Grinds has been giving the Starbucks across from them a run for their money; winning customers over who would order food and then step across the street for coffee. Frida (co-owner with her brother Fred), recalled one such customer, “For years [he] would pick up breakfast here then go to Starbucks… One day I said, I’ll make you coffee—it’s free! He always buys his coffee here now…”
Short Disclaimer: My refrigerator is bare and I’m running on zero cups of coffee AND I’m trying to sit and write through hand tremors… All I want to do is go back to Daily Grinds and order another Soy Latte and eat their French Toast all over again—calories and girlish figure be damned!!!
Folks, I’ve been driving by this little diamond in the rough for over a year telling myself I’m going to stop, and now that I have it is all I can think about… There is no other way to describe this gem than to call it what it is: A Fatal Attraction. Let’s face it, if I eat French Toast and Bacon everyday of my life it will most certainly be fatal… But their coffee… Ohhh, can you hear the music open in a sunny meadow and Julie Andrews belting out “The hills are alive…” with the sounds of me enjoying some damn effing good coffee!!!
If I haven’t disclosed before, I recently found out that I have a little problem with lactose, which tends to throw a kink in gett’n my coffee drink-on especially with all the espresso options out there. Those who do soy because they ‘LIKE’ it may not understand that it is HAAAARD—really freek’n HARD to find a place that can make a good Soy Latte, much less a DAMN GOOD Soy Latte (Just think what they can do with milk…). Most places make them taste like cardboard dipped in day-old drip. It’s a hard-knock life for the lactose-challenged. We’re like other marginalized groups in society: Lefties, the boss-eyed, Objectum Sexuals… But we all want what everyone else wants…to enjoy coffee in all its many incarnations.
I know I’ve created a review system and if you want to ‘review’ it via my Mission’s Tab go right ahead. From here on out stars will represent their categories, but for the sake of brevity, not every category will get a write-up. Besides, I’m frigg’n hungry!!! AND WAY overdue for my coffee!!!
Hide the kitchen knives, pet bunnies, and buy a small handgun Daily Grinds! Because like Glenn Close, you’ll have to put me down to keep me away…
Stars: 5
Price: $ (College Student Budget—under five-dollar to make you hollar)
Until next time, remember to say, “Hello” to your neighbor and stay classy San Diego!
- ME: I’m not into that Criss Angel guy (or the way he spells his first name), but this illusion is pretty cool (pic of out-stretched hands holding coffee beans with fresh hot coffee magically pouring down from underneath the cupped hands). There have been times when I’d like to have been able to do this… It should be a superpower. Okay, that does it. I’ve officially changed my superhero name (come on we’ve all contemplated what ours would be if we were bitten by an irradiated bum). The super hero formerly known as “Shadow Ass” will now be played by, soon to be infamous, Coffee Girl! Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound as cool as my previous name… I need something less impotent. Blog-o-verse, can you save the day?!?! What would you call a superhero who could change whole coffee beans into fresh brewed coffee??? Winner gets a whole post dedicated to their creative process ; ).
- MarkieMark: Black Ichor of Life???
- ME: Black Ichor of Life...hmmm... I'm liking this one... I think "of life" might be redundant, so how about The Black Ichor! Androgynously sexy don't you think?! You wake in the wee hours disoriented, unable to speak beyond the occasional primitive groan... reaching for your daily dose of strength and virility, you find your roommate has drank the last cup of coffee. At first you drop to your knees in despair tears weaving the last of yesterday's mascara into ashen rivers down your cheeks... Then, suddenly--what's this? Stuck in your 6th Floor window asking you for "A little help please!" is none other than--THE BLACK ICHOR!!! You may have had to call the Fire Department to use the jaws of life to release me from your window's grip, but just before I went, I reached out my hands...and you yours, clutching your favorite coffee mug, and all was once again well in the world...
- MarkieMark: It's a great name! But I just googled it...and apparently that name is already taken by some lady that writes reviews for horror stories. It also refers to the blood of demons and orcs from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So perhaps not a good name after all?
- ME: I don't wish to copyright my superhero name, so I'm not bothered that some mere mortal has already made use of it. As for the blood thing...that's just icky. It would be blasphemous to compare the blood of Demons and Orcs to the gloriousness of coffee... Unless!... we can establish a historical use of coffee as an elixer to stay the demon or orc present in each of us. On a very real level, we ALL know, that is what it does... And before I've had my coffee, I pretty much speak fluent Orc and my head has been known to spin around... Let's face it, a world without coffee is a dark and ugly place absent of beauty in all its forms; an empty rotting shell ravaged by the likes of the Living Dead or EVEEL in all its forms whether Orc or Demon. But this is a future none of us will ever have to experience if the Black Ichor stretches out her life giving hands and makes sure that never a coffee cup goes unfilled!!!
I’m not into that Criss Angel guy (or the way he spells his first name), but this illusion is pretty cool. There have been times when I’d like to have been able to do this… It should be a superpower. Okay, that does it. I’ve officially changed my superhero name (come on we’ve all contemplated what ours would be if we were bitten by an irradiated bum). The super hero formerly known as “Shadow Ass” will now be played by, soon to be infamous, Coffee Girl! Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound as cool as my previous name… I need something less impotent. Blog-o-verse, can you save the day?!?! What would you call a superhero who could change whole coffee beans into fresh brewed coffee??? Winner gets a whole post dedicated to their creative process ; ).
(Source: coffee-culture)
Hello my devoted followers (who hopefully still remember who I am)!!!
I wanted to invite you over to my non-portfolio centered blog: San Diego Joe
It is way more fun over there. Lots more posts and shares. Totally off the hook!…EpiC.
Okay, I better not oversell it. San Diego Joe has a pulse whereas here you’ll get an occasional blip, but it pretty much needs life support and a sponge bath… I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to stick around to see that…
