An Englishman in (Christmas) New York

Well, today I had a great cup of coffee. In fact, it was the best cup of coffee in... New York! (according to citysearch.com last year!). Yep, you guessed it, I am in New York for the holidays, visiting some of my american family that live out there. I was shopping in greenwich village and though, hmm, i really need a java fix and first of all thought that i just should find a starbucks - then i thought to myself 'am i crazy?? go find a cool coffeeshop!' So i asked in bleeker street records and 3 staff there told me unanimously to go to the 'grey dog' coffeeshop just around the corner - and they weren't wrong - it was great! so i sat there and wondered, one day, hopefully coffeeshopcritic will have an NYC version, so i can give the 'grey dog' a great review!

Drumroll Please... the CoffeeShopCritic Logo!

Well folks, here it is, the long anticipated logo for coffeeshopcritic! We are actually pretty pleased with how it went (thanks go to the logo loft!). If you are in coffeeshops in san diego, expect to start seeing this logo around! I'm actually sitting in Java Jones in Pacific Beach right now, sipping on my cup of paradise blend, working on the website...

We would love to know what you think of the our logo - feel free to post comments! :) Until next time...

CoffeeShopCritic.com Countdown!

Well, I'm finally writing the very first CoffeeShopCritic blog post! And I still don't even know what the final name for this will blog will be - hmmm, sounds like we should have an audience poll on this in the future!

Anyway, things are getting pretty exciting here. I am not going to disclose the full details of CoffeeShopCritic.com yet, but lets just say its going to be a pretty damn unique coffee shop website, blending elements of the real coffee shop world. We are going to start things in San Diego and expand to other regions.

We are working on CSC (thats going to be our lazy way of writing CoffeeShopCritic!) right now - I just approved the final logo that we had professional done for us. So next post, I will reveal the logo :) And bear in mind that we have already been working on this logo, website and business plan for over a month now!

Hopefully I will look back on this first post and think wow, that was really the start of something big... that you will all love and be passionate about just as much as we are!

We hope to launch the website beta version just before christmas, but seeing as this is just website business in addition to our regular jobs, its hard to really set a hard and fast date. In the meantime, feel free to comment - the more comments and suggestions about this blog and what to name it, the better!