what is the most elite aggieville coffee shop?

[fatty fat fat]

which one screams "downtown portland" more than the others?

[catdude33]

bluestem. 

[Thin Blue Line]

which one screams "downtown portland Homosexual meeting spot" more than the others?

fyp

[hemmy]

too much smugness in coffee shops, plus I don't like coffee, so I have never been in one.

[Pike]

Bluestem end of thread

[Skydog]

I don't like coffee or coffee shops, but every time I walk by bluestem they all seem like elitist snobs.

so yeah, bluestem.

[jmlynch1]

radinas

[waks]

It's not like there's a large selection, there's just two unless you count Starbucks (ha, yeah right). Bluestem, or Java for the elite Manhattanites, has good food. I don't go to Radinas much but I know they roast their own coffee. I would go with Java. It seems Radina's attracts more high schoolers and older people.

[jeffy]

Kwik Shop. 

Why spend $5 on a cup of coffee when you can spend 99 cents?

[michigancat]

I had no idea neocons hated coffee shops so much.  Seriously.

[steve dave]

Radina's roasts their own?  I bet it makes for a ton of college age and young proffesor douche baggy types that talk it up and refuse to drink anything else even though it's probably garbage but they can't tell the difference.  This is my experience with most places that roast their own. Obviously some actually have good coffee but most end up butchering perfectly good beans. 

[Rick Daris]

Kwik Shop. 

Why spend $5 on a cup of coffee when you can spend 99 cents?

dave ramsey would not be happy w/ you. why spend 99 cents at kwik shop when you can make it at home for half the price.

[steve dave]

Kinda OT:  Does anyone feel like making a million dollars and opening a dunkin donuts in Manhattan with me? 

[jeffy]

Kwik Shop. 

Why spend $5 on a cup of coffee when you can spend 99 cents?

dave ramsey would not be happy w/ you. why spend 99 cents at kwik shop when you can make it at home for half the price.

I don't drink coffee unless it's winter and I'm at a motel for work, so the coffee is "free."

[WillieWannabe]

coffee pffttt 

[waks]

Kwik Shop. 

Why spend $5 on a cup of coffee when you can spend 99 cents?

Do you hold this same logic for booze, strippers, hookers, blow, etc?

[Rick Daris]

Kinda OT:  Does anyone feel like making a million dollars and opening a dunkin donuts in Manhattan with me? 

probably. i would honestly consider opening tons of mhk businesses based on how good things are going to be here in the future. where would you put it? do we choose or does dunkin donuts choose for us? prob need to start another thread to discuss all this....

http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=46480.0

[jeffy]

Kwik Shop. 

Why spend $5 on a cup of coffee when you can spend 99 cents?

Do you hold this same logic for booze, strippers, hookers, blow, etc?

Why?  You know where I can find a 99 cent hooker?

[fatty fat fat]

the outdoor patio area of bluestem would make certain seattle based coffee places blush.

i once went in their dressed horribly and looked like a complete baboon. so mayn fit/attractive people there it's scary.

[Cougar2k]

Radina's Polar Mocha. Elite.

[LimestoneOutcropping]

Kinda OT:  Does anyone feel like making a million dollars and opening a dunkin donuts in Manhattan with me? 

Dunkin Donuts (called DuDos by east coast elites) ---->  X-large, iced hazelnut, 2 splendas, extra skim.   

True story here, young LSOC used to hit the Espresso Royale that was where Radinas is now.  He had some friends who worked there and became dangerously addicted to iced mochas one spring.  Well, he moved to an elite east coast city which I will not name and directly across Commonwealth Ave from his elite condo was THE ONLY OTHER ESPRESSO ROYALE IN AMERICA.

spooky.

[Leyton]

which one screams "downtown portland" more than the others?

Radina's.  Hands down, bra.  And I was in downtown Portland on Sunday (drinking coffee, I might add).

[fatty fat fat]

which one screams "downtown portland" more than the others?

  And I was in downtown Portland on Sunday (drinking coffee, I might add).

more elite leyton: downtown portland or downtown seattle?

[Leyton]

which one screams "downtown portland" more than the others?

 And I was in downtown Portland on Sunday (drinking coffee, I might add).

more elite leyton: downtown portland or downtown seattle?

I'm not qualified to answer that question, actually.  Didn't spend much time in downtown Seattle despite being at UW.  Downtown Seattle is more business-like than elite, IMO.  Absolutely nothing going on after 6pm.  Plus, buses effing everywhere thanks to complete lack of elite modern pubTrans.  Elite (hip) Seattle is Capitol Hill, Fremont, and Belltown.  You've lived there, though, right?  You should know.

Downtown PDX is cheap enough that many of the young, creative folks (many of whom have fled from Seattle's high rents) can afford to live there...or at least right across the river.  Portland music scene is pretty incredible for the size of the city - so many bands call it home.  In my experience, Portland coffee shops are more elite.  You'll find Tully's and Starbucks all over Seattle, and those, my friend, can't be elite no matter how hard they try.  Also, there are tons of complete assholes in Seattle, whereas Portlanders are pretty mellow.  IMO, a lot of Seattleites fear/know that their city is inferior to NYC (and to a lesser extent San Francisco), and Portland residents fear/know that their city is inferior to San Francisco (and to a lesser extent Seattle).  Seattle is super hungry for condo towers a la Vancouver, BC, whereas most people in Portland would hate to see downtown PDX "yuppiefied" by condos (it's happening anyway in NW Portland).

[fatty fat fat]

which one screams "downtown portland" more than the others?

  And I was in downtown Portland on Sunday (drinking coffee, I might add).

more elite leyton: downtown portland or downtown seattle?

I'm not qualified to answer that question, actually.  Didn't spend much time in downtown Seattle despite being at UW.  Downtown Seattle is more business-like than elite, IMO.  Absolutely nothing going on after 6pm.  Plus, buses effing everywhere thanks to complete lack of elite modern pubTrans.  Elite (hip) Seattle is Capitol Hill, Fremont, and Belltown.  You've lived there, though, right?  You should know.

Downtown PDX is cheap enough that many of the young, creative folks (many of whom have fled from Seattle's high rents) can afford to live there...or at least right across the river.  Portland music scene is pretty incredible for the size of the city - so many bands call it home.  In my experience, Portland coffee shops are more elite.  You'll find Tully's and Starbucks all over Seattle, and those, my friend, can't be elite no matter how hard they try.  Also, there are tons of complete assholes in Seattle, whereas Portlanders are pretty mellow.  IMO, a lot of Seattleites fear/know that their city is inferior to NYC (and to a lesser extent San Francisco), and Portland residents fear/know that their city is inferior to San Francisco (and to a lesser extent Seattle).  Seattle is super hungry for condo towers a la Vancouver, BC, whereas most people in Portland would hate to see downtown PDX "yuppiefied" by condos (it's happening anyway in NW Portland).

most amazing post ever.

[steve dave]

I love how Leyton's all, "I don't know much about Seattle downtown" and then proceeds to post tons of insidery Seattle downtown info like it's nothing 

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

more elite leyton: downtown portland or downtown seattle?

Downtown PDX is cheap enough that many of the young, creative folks (many of whom have fled from Seattle's high rents) can afford to live there...or at least right across the river.  Portland music scene is pretty incredible for the size of the city - so many bands call it home.  In my experience, Portland coffee shops are more elite.  You'll find Tully's and Starbucks all over Seattle, and those, my friend, can't be elite no matter how hard they try.  Also, there are tons of complete assholes in Seattle, whereas Portlanders are pretty mellow.  IMO, a lot of Seattleites fear/know that their city is inferior to NYC (and to a lesser extent San Francisco), and Portland residents fear/know that their city is inferior to San Francisco (and to a lesser extent Seattle).  Seattle is super hungry for condo towers a la Vancouver, BC, whereas most people in Portland would hate to see downtown PDX "yuppiefied" by condos (it's happening anyway in NW Portland).

Portland coffee (Stumptown) is all the rage in NYC.  Portland FTW.

[BigCat]

Radina's roasts their own? 

sd yes I believe they do, and it does indeed taste like garbage. but radinas, bluestem, and the one art gallery-coffee shop are the only cool places in town.

[Kat Kid]

sometimes I bike down to radinas with my mac book and read znet chomsky articles and surf gawker/huff post in between.

americano doubs, no room for cream.

[sys]

radina's has good coffee.



euroish coffee snob --->  sys