Entries Tagged as 'Coffee'

Get ready for Hey Octane Boy posts from Homewood

December 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Online, Quirky

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We’re getting a new coffee shop in metro Birmingham this spring using a local (and well loved) coffee roaster. We may also get some fans of the baristas depending on how long this meme lasts…

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Crestwood Coffee Company… for now

February 10th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Business, food

Birmingham’s Crestwood Coffee Company gets a new owner and some new perks, so looking for a new name would only be logical…

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Turns out the magic number is four

July 18th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Business

That’s how many Starbucks Coffee locations are actually closing in metro Birmingham. Besides the two locations that have been reported about earlier in local media, we’re also losing locations on Rocky Ridge Road and one on Parkway East. These would be four of the newer locations in town. The one that recently opened in Hoover [...]

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New hours at Urban Standard

July 9th, 2008 · 10 Comments · food

No, we’re not kidding. Beginning tomorrow, Urban Standard (address & location) will be open until 10 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We’ll leave you to your rejoicing now… Oh yeah, since you’ve probably read most of the other writeups on the coffee house, we thought you’d enjoy seeing what Samford’s student newspaper had to [...]

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Starbucks to offer free WiFi in Birmingham, nationwide

February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Citywide, National, technology

Soon you’ll be getting at least a couple of hours of free internet access coming to you at Birmingham area Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee company announced today that it will soon end its long term partnership with T-Mobile, instead working with AT&T to offer their customers up to two hours of free wireless access at [...]

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Birmingham becoming hotspot for coffee roasters

January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · food, Regionwide

We were batting around the idea of doing a story about the numerous coffee roasters that have set up shop in metro Birmingham.. little did we know that the folks at Bhamdining.com were thinking the exact same thing (and they’ve already finished their story!). Check out their post about The Magic City becoming a “coffee [...]

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