So if I’ve tweeted this, should I blog it? What if I also Facebooked it? Well, here’s my Social Media strategy: at this moment, I don’t give a rat’s ass.
I’m proud of Montreal’s Cafe Myriade because Anthony and Alex both placed in the Eastern Regional Canadian Barista Championship several days back: Anthony in first place, and Alex in third. Both will represent Montreal in the national competition in Vancouver in October.
Myriade produces beautiful coffee – something that’s not, strictly speaking, impossible to do. It serves it with a smile and without attitude, and after watching baristas at Intelligentsia or Ritual sigh or roll their eyes at customers who unknowingly broke this or that cardinal rule of coffee drinkery, I had come to believe that these achievements were mutually exclusive. Not so.
1432 rue Mackay
photo: Chuck’s excellent macchiato, prepared by Anthony at Cafe Myriade on December 20, 2008.