Review: Stumptown

OK, this isn't so much a review as it is glorification of a real coffeehouse with coffee so good it will make your toes curl. Portlanders and Seattleites know it well, but even in coffee-driven New York, we are sometimes at a lack for great coffee, so it is fortunate that there is one.

Cappuccinos at Stumptown Coffee in the Ace Hotel
18 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001

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Iced Cappuccino

Jen's favorite cool drink on a hot and humid NYC day is iced cappuccino.  Fortunately we have a Nespresso machine to make super good coffee.  The problem was that the ice was watering down the coffee too much so to make sure that didn't happen, we made iced coffee cubes using slightly sweetened coffee in a regular ice tray.

After much delicious trial and error, we discovered that the Soy Dream brand vanilla enriched soy milk works better than any other milk (we tested real milk, 2 brands of soy milk and with flavors and not, along with almond and rice milk) for the most froth from the aerator.

This iced cap uses 2 lungo shots of Decaffeinato Lungo (if you like stronger and with caffeine, I recommend Arpeggio), 6 coffee cubes, 1 Splenda and 1 C soy milk fully cold aerated. Jen, of course, added some cocoa powder and a wafer cigar :)

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Sunday Early Breakfast

Nothing special - fried eggs on English muffins, grapes with cantaloupe and some coffee.

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