Something I tried to do on my recent trip to Bogotá was to visit some of the many specialty cafes that are now in the city. If you are not familiar with the terminology of specialty coffee, here is what Wikipedia says
Specialty coffee is a term for the highest grade of coffee available, typically relating to the entire supply chain, using single origin or single estate coffee. The term was first used in 1974 by Erna Knutsen in an issue of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal. Knutsen used specialty coffee to describe beans of the best flavor which are produced in special micro-climates.
Specialty coffee is related to the farmers and the brewer what is known as the third wave of coffee,[4] especially throughout North America. This refers to a modern demand for exceptional quality coffee, both farmed and brewed to a significantly higher than average standard.
In simple terms, they are supposed to be coffees of high quality.
In these coffee shops of specialty, they sell coffee from local producers and take care of the production chain until they serve you the coffee in a cup. And today I am going to tell you about one of my visits to one of these coffee shops.
Another thing I love about Bogota besides the coffee shops are the bookstores and if in the same afternoon you have a little bit of both, for me it's a perfect afternoon.
So one of the afternoons of my trip, I went to the Quinta Camacho neighborhood to visit the Wilborada bookstore. A couple of years ago I wrote about this bookstore in Visiting bookshops in Bogotá for Market Friday.
I wanted to buy a graphic novel for my husband. I came out with two books that were recommended to me at the bookstore, the novel Grass (Hierba) by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim and its sequel. I already read Herb and I loved it but I'll tell you about the book another time.
This bookstore has a small cafe inside, but when I visited, the cafe was full and there was no place left to sit. So I paid for the books and went to the coffee shop Cafe Cultor, which was very close by.
At the entrance, they have a list of some of the coffees they sell.
Just as you enter you come across the area where they make coffee.
They had a great variety of coffee to go. I kept looking around, thinking that maybe I would come back for a packet of coffee to take home.
I decided to sit at one of the tables on the outside patio.
From there you could see some other cozy areas of the place.
And you could even see the area where they have the coffee roasters. They roast and process the beans right there.
There was such a variety of coffees that I didn't know which one to order so the guy who served me suggested one of their exotic coffees. So I ordered a V60 filtered Gesha coffee.
It was simply delicious.
My sweet tooth, although I keep it at bay lately, made me order an almond croissant which was a perfect combo for the coffee.
So I spent some time savoring a delicious coffee and browsing through the book I had just bought. The perfect plan!
I liked this coffee shop so much that I went back a few days later to get some coffee to bring home. I couldn't afford to bring home a package of one of their exotic coffees, but I did bring back a couple of coffees that they recommended with beans of origin.
We haven't opened them yet, but I'll let you know when we try them.
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