Montreal Notebook » anthony benda http://montrealnotebook.com/notebook Todd and Chuck blog about their trips to Montréal Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:44:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cafe Myriade rocks http://montrealnotebook.com/notebook/2009/08/31/cafe-myriade-rocks/ http://montrealnotebook.com/notebook/2009/08/31/cafe-myriade-rocks/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:19:47 +0000 Todd Mundt http://montrealnotebook.com/notebook/?p=218 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.

macchiato_myriadeI’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.

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photo: Chuck’s excellent macchiato, prepared by Anthony at Cafe Myriade on December 20, 2008.

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