Coffee houses of the United States

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Firestorm Cafe %26 Books

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Flying Star (restaurant)

Flying Star Cafe is a privately owned and operated cafe restaurant chain in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Flying Star Cafe first location was opened in 1987 on Central Avenue in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque, near the UNM campus. At the time it was named Double Rainbow, as it was a franchisee of San Francisco ice cream chain of the same name. The two businesses entered into an agreement regarding the common use of the name, but eventually the Albuquerque location wanted to branch out into food restaurants and the agreement was revisited; as a result, Double Rainbow in Albuquerque changed their name to Flying Star Cafe. When looking for a name, they went over 300 different choices, and ultimately the name Flying Star came from a Chinese Firecracker Magazine.

As Double Rainbow, they opened up two more locations. One is located in the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque and was dubbed the Juan Tabo location it opened in 1995. The third location opened in 2000 and it was located near the Uptown area of Albuquerque. It is known as the Menaul location. When they decided to open their fourth location, this was when the name change came about in 2001. The fourth location was opened up in the North Rio Grande Valley where they decided to add a horse hitching post to allowed customers to bring their horses to come and eat at Flying Star Cafe. This location also had a large Petio which was a place for their patrons to bring their pets to eat alongside in the fresh air. The fifth location opened in 2005 in the Downtown Albuquerque area. This building now offered yet another way to dine with Flying Star Cafe and that was with a conference room. In 2006, another location opened in Corrales, and in 2007, another Northeast Heights location opened off of Paseo del Norte. When 2008 came around, it was time to spread past the city limits, and they opened their first location in Bernalillo. The following year, they opened yet another store in the Railyard district of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Since 1987 Flying Star has expanded to seven locations in Albuquerque, with four more locations in Bernalillo, Corrales and Santa Fe. The Downtown Albuquerque location is housed in the former Southern Union Gas Company Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Four Barrel Coffee

Four Barrel Coffee is a coffee roaster based in San Francisco, California, with three cafes in San Francisco. Like competitors Ritual Coffee Roasters and Blue Bottle, Four Barrel is among local, independent companies which roast their own beans, wholesale, and operate cafes. Unique among local coffeeshops, Four Barrel does not provide free Wi-Fi or power for laptops. Four Barrel opened in 2008 and was started by one of the founders of Ritual, with its first location in the Mission District.

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Cafe Frankenstein

The Café Frankenstein was a coffee house in Laguna Beach, California, United States.

From 1958-62, the Café Frankenstein was seen as sort of a "den of iniquity" amongst the semi-conservative Orange County, California art community of Laguna Beach. Located at 860 South Pacific Coast Highway, Cafe Frankenstein boasted a steady diet of beats, surfers, folkies, teens and all manner of weirdos, and was suspected of harboring drugs and other debauchery. For two years straight, a pair of undercover cops were regulars at the Frankenstein, looking for a bust. But according to the last owner, Michael Schley, they instead became avid supporters.

Artists Burt Shonberg, Doug Myres (the Gateway Singers) and writer George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone, Logan's Run) were the proprietors. Shonberg provided a Frankenstein stained-glass window and cubist mural art for the club. Shonberg also painted murals for Hollywood's Purple Onion, Cosmo Alley, the Bastille, the Seven Chef's and Pandora's Box, as well as advertising art for Fairfax Avenue's Sandalsville, Don Brown's local surf movie events and a coterie of album covers (including Arthur Lee & Love's 1969 LP Out Here).

The Frankenstein had a bookstore inside, specializing in banned books. There was a sandal shop in the back, as well. Sid Soffer managed the Café Frankenstein from 1958–59, before starting his own beat café, Sid's Blue Beet (Newport Beach).

The Frankenstein's steady diet of controversy started early, with police busts for spiking the espresso with brandy and for allowing a woman to be photographed nude against the inside murals. Both charges were eventually dropped, but the damage had been done. The last straw was when the local ladies Church League came down on them for creating a stained-glass window of the Frankenstein monster. The Church League claimed that stained glass was only for use in the church, and rallied the community against the Frankenstein. Owner Burt Shonberg threatened to erect a crucified Frankenstein dummy in front of the coffeehouse, if they didn't back off. They did back off, but it became harder to get kids in the door, as parents forbade them from going in.

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The Freaky Bean Coffee Company

The Freaky Bean Coffee Company

The Freaky Bean Coffee Company was an independent, Maine-based specialty coffee house and roaster, which had retail locations, a roasting division, and wholesale accounts.

The company was founded in 2005, and at its peak had six locations. After a series of store closures, the remaining two stores were shut down in March 2009.

The company was founded by Andrew Kessler and Jon Stratton, a former member of the US Navy. They started the company in 2005 using $10,000 in microfinancing from Accion USA. The original Freaky Bean shop opened in June 2006 at the Willowdale Place business complex on Route 1 in Scarborough. The company's name was whittled down from about 400 names. Other names considered included Dirigo Coffee, Sublime Coffee, and Waxing Poetic. The folk tale that has been spread about the origin of company's name states that it was created when Jon Stratton's wife had an epiphany while taking a shower. She leaned out of the shower and yelled, "Call it the Freaky Bean!" to Jon.

The company experienced rapid growth in 2007 and 2008, followed by a series of store closures:

The Freaky Bean's round logo is based upon a statue found at the Mayan temples in Central America. Designed by Arielle Walrath, a local Maine designer and illustrator, the stone statue's design was illustrated to show the Mayan character juggling a coffee cup, a coffee bean, and a muffin.

A second logo was created for use in smaller spaces: it consists of the company's name, with a coffee cup in the middle with steam emanating from it. Both logos were used interchangeably within the company's stores, literature and branding.

The Freaky Bean served a variety of coffee-based drinks as well as hot chocolate and organic teas, along with their version of a blended iced coffee drink, the Freakazoid.

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The Gaslight Cafe

The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Also known as The Village Gaslight, it opened in 1958 and became notable as a venue for folk music and other musical acts. It closed in 1971.

The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. John Moyant bought the club in 1961, and his father in law Clarence Hood and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s. Ed Simon, the owner of The Four Winds, reopened the Gaslight in 1968. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971.

Folk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s.

The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets. Some nights the Kettle of Fish was "locked" down to the public because a young "reclusive" singer and poet was in attendance...Bob Dylan. Also next door was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records.

In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead."

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Gavi%C3%B1a Gourmet Coffee

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Gerde%27s Folk City

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Gimme! Coffee

Gimme! Coffee

Gimme! Coffee is a coffee roaster and third-wave coffee shop, based in New York, with espresso bars in Ithaca, Trumansburg, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Gimme! Coffee has a wholesale service that caters to coffee and espresso establishments. The espresso made at Gimme follows a rigorous quality control from beans to roast to cup, including a precise "dialing in" and logging of their Leftist espresso blend on a daily basis.

A focus at Gimme is to form relationships with farmers who grow coffee. As part of this bond between consumer and producer, the farmer may receive a price premium, which in turn, can help them improve their operations. For example, since 2009, Gimme has worked with a farmer in Colombia, helping the producer to attain organic certification and win awards.

The director of coffee at Gimme is working with Boyce Thompson Institute to map the arabica coffee genome to improve taste and make arabica beans less susceptible to disease.

In 2006, the New York Times named Gimme! Coffee among the best espresso bars in New York City. Gimme! Coffee received a Good Food Award, in the coffee category, for 2011 and 2012.Roast magazine chose Gimme! Coffee as winner of their 2013 Roaster of the Year contest (macro category).

Gimme offers guidance and advice on equipment and technique for the home coffee brewer. In 2013, Gimme switched to biodegradable coffee bags, which can be composted.

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Gloria Jean%27s Coffees

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