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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the Midwest

The Midwest showed up in 2025 with new coffee shops blending menu inventiveness and creative programming with earnest and sincere service. The openings in this list include roasters expanding into...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: 10 New West Coast Coffee Shops

Whether to Mexico, Vietnam, Ukraine or outer space, new coffee shops that opened this year up and down the West Coast showed specialty coffee’s power to deepen connections to places...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Rockies, Plains and Southwest

From the American Southwest up through the great Rocky Mountains this year, a wide range of new coffee bars opened, embracing spirits of renewal, repair and innovation. While 2025 was...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Southeast

Coffee drinkers throughout the American South have ample new choices for freshly roasted, expertly brewed coffee served with plenty of personality. While 2025 was a particularly challenging year for independent...

2025.12.22

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Northeast

From an Art Deco icon in Manhattan to a comedy club doorstep in Brooklyn, this year’s Northeast coffee shop openings reminded us that great coffee is a welcome luxury anywhere. ...

2025.12.22

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Three Questions with Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera of Cafe Secret Alley in Sri Lanka

When Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera opened Cafe Secret Alley in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 2017, he knew next to nothing about coffee. “Sri Lanka didn’t have a coffee culture,” Ranaweera said....

2025.12.20

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Weekly Coffee News: Towards a Roast Color Standard + East Africa Investment

Welcome to DCN’s Weekly Coffee News! Subscribe here for all the latest coffee industry news. Also, check out the latest career opportunities at CoffeeIndustryJobs.com. SCA Publishes White Paper on Roast Color Standards...

2025.12.19

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Reflections on 1 Million Coffee Farmers Trained with TechnoServe Coffee Head Paul Stewart (Part 2)

This is part two of a two-part interview with Paul Stewart, the global coffee director for TechnoServe. The nonprofit recently announced it has helped train more than 1 million smallholder...

2025.12.17

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Weekly Coffee News: Regenerative Coffee in Timor-Leste + Uganda Flavor Profiles

Welcome to DCN’s Weekly Coffee News! Subscribe here for all the latest coffee industry news. Also, check out the latest career opportunities at CoffeeIndustryJobs.com. 11 Million Trees Kickstarter Backs Regenerative Coffee in Timor-Leste...

2025.12.12

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The Screwy New World of Cranked and Geared Espresso

As grinders self-adjust, roasters sense first cracks and robotic arms refine their latte hearts, technology dating back to the time of Archimedes is also having a moment in the modern espresso...

2025.12.12

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