Illycaffè, a leader company in sustainable high-quality coffee from Trieste, Italy, announced today a partnership with The Snow Lodge, an influential supper club and entertainment venue located inside the St. Regis Aspen Resort, where the company will be hosting six weeks of activations beginning February 13th through March 24th. Each year since 20...

Coffee helps keep blood pressure low: this is the result of research by the University of Bologna, carried out in conjunction with the IRCCS Policlinico Sant'Orsola, going against every belief on the subject taken for granted. The study shows how those who drink two or three coffees a day have lower blood pressure on average than those who drink on...

Rome eatery Roscioli is to launch in New York this spring in the first opening outside Italy for the culinary institution that has been serving Romans for generations. The news, first reported by Eater, will see Roscioli take the place of Ariel Arce's MacDougal Street restaurant Niche Niche which is closing after four years. However Arce will remai...

In 1983, Howard Schultz was sent by the small coffee company he worked for in Seattle to an international housewares show in Milan, Italy. He traveled alone and stayed at a hotel off the beaten path. Schultz passed his spare time by strolling through Milan’s neighborhoods, fascinated by the coffee bars on almost every corner. He marveled at the bar...

illycaffé has partnered with Florida-based specialty coffee machine operator Reliant Coffee to introduce its coffee at ‘premium lifestyle destinations’ across the US. The Italian coffee roaster is seeking to meet increasing consumer demand for premium coffee at select retail and hospitality locations, including luxury car dealerships, residential b...

If you're a coffee fan, the chances are good that you've downed a Starbucks brew in your day, whether you were hustling through an airport or whether a stop at one of the megachain's 35,700-plus locations forms a part of your everyday routine. Perhaps you enjoy a warm caramel macchiato, maybe you like an iced drink such as the dark chocolate mocha,...

For the uninitiated, affogato is the ultimate dessert for those who like the juxtaposition of deep contrasts: the black, bitter acidity of espresso meets the pure white creaminess of vanilla ice cream. The word itself also rolls off the tongue nicely in four syllables that rhyme: "ah-foe-ga-toe," an Italian word, which literally translates to "drow...

A Dallas Farmers Market coffee shop is expanding and opening a second location in Bishop Arts. Palmieri Cafe will open a location on Bishop Avenue in the coming weeks in a small, standalone building across from Paradiso, as reported by Oak Cliff Advocate. Owner Corrado Palmieri told The Dallas Morning News that the coffee shop is in the final stage...

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and with a recent restyling, the MUMAC, located in Milan, keeps on growing and connecting with the coffee culture community in every way. Being the first and largest permanent exhibition completely dedicated to the history, culture and world of professional espresso machines, the MUMAC, Gruppo Cimbali’s Co...

“First you have a bite of cake, then you have some water, and THEN you drink the coffee.” These are the words told to me by Giuseppe Schisano, owner of Don Café Street Art Coffee in the Italian city of Naples. Used to sipping my espresso from a tiny cup, I was surprised that the coffee I was about to drink—prepared in a traditional Neapolitan flip...