The World’s Best and Priciest Coffee
Posted October 25, 2007 – 2:12 pm in: Coffee
Catherine posted about her $15 cup of Hacienda La Esmeralda. Fifteen bucks must be a Toronto thing. (Though I understand it is also the price being charged in Vancouver.) Maybe the price has to do with an inflated sense of status in larger Canadian cities. 
Here in Edmonton, we can get a 12 ounce cup of that same Hacienda La Esmeralda for $5, from Transcend Coffee. Not only that, Transcend is a roaster. They buy the Hacienda La Esmeralda green, roast it and make it available in small half-pound lots. I have been able to enjoy several cups at considerably less than even the five bucks per cup.
Catherine’s post also mentions the only Clover machine in Toronto. Edmonton didn’t make her list of other Canadian cities with a Clover. However, Transcend has one of those: though only for about 10 days now. As Catherine notes, it brews fantastic coffee.
Food for Thought - a Foodtv.ca blog : The World’s Best and Priciest Coffee.
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