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Here is a pic that I took at a coffee shop that sits next to the Grand Lake Theater here in Oakland’s Lake Merritt District. The place has a  skull theme throughout, which makes it cool in my book. It has pretty good hot dogs too. Their coffee is called “Smokey Joe’s” and lives up to its name, being very dark and smoky. It is pretty decent with enough cream, although the cup I bought did taste like it had been sitting around for a while.

Since the place seemd pretty quite and the guy behind the counter seemed almost dumbfounded that he actually had a paying customer who, yes, wanted to spend 6 bucks on a hotdog and a cup of coffee.

Times are tough I guess.

I do hope this place makes it if only for its cool decorum and I might try to make it a point to stop by once in a while to get a hot dog. I do what I can to support the local community.

I will  pass on more Smokey Joe coffee though.

I got enough of my own to drink.

Maui Moka

Speaking of smoky, I got a pound of Maui Moka From SM the other week in preparation for my upcoming vaca to this tropical paradise. Since the beans are on the small side and Tom from SM advised against using a Behmor to roast them, I decided that it was a good time to break the old Nesco out and give it a whirl…

The problem, however, was that my Nesco skills have gotten a little rusty and I got the beans a little bit too dark. I set it at 27 and let er rip, only to have to hit cool  with 3 minutes left after seeing sparks. They still tasted ok, but I think a little to the left of Vienna would be  preferable. Nice thing about the Nesco is that I still got two more tries to get it right.

I also got some Brazilian beans that really have a kick to them, but I will talk about those at a later date…

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