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Yahappynow t1_iyowdnh wrote

At the risk of blowing up my apparently secret spot: Café Los Sueños has great drinks, beans, and stocks Oven Bird baked goods.

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_reptilia_ t1_iyp1qyt wrote

Los Sueños is great! Out of the way for me during the week, but I'll drive there on weekends

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Ndysmth t1_iypifoe wrote

Love that los sueños is one of my local spots but I gotta get peoples opinions on the “pour over to go” in the batch pots! 🤔

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NationalMyth t1_iyqrsxn wrote

Yeah I'm curious on that one. I've never seen them make one of those pots.

On a similar note, is a drip maker just an automatic pour over, functionally anyhow?

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Djaq t1_iysa6fe wrote

Yep, they do it all by hand! Sometimes you’ll see them line up pour overs and just make a ton at once for their pots.

I don’t have enough coffee knowledge to understand drip vs. pour over though lol

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Ndysmth t1_j01mphn wrote

I’ve seen the row of pour overs behind the counter and figured that’s what they were doing. Interesting to see!

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Ndysmth t1_j01mkdf wrote

You could say they are the same ‘functionally’ but not the same end result. This doesn’t mean you can’t get coffee to taste good with a drip/batch brew system but you just lose some control with large batches. Seeing them actually make multiple pour overs at once and out into a pot is essentially creating an environment like a batch brewer where it will balance any subtly off flavors, but for me this also loses some of the nuance of the ritual. Anyway, I’ll link an article if you’re interested.

https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/blogs/coffee-talk/pour-over-vs-drip-coffee

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vy_you t1_iypism6 wrote

Ditto, i always get both their coffee and horchata and if there's any left, the pain au chocolat

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professorparmesan t1_iyr209a wrote

Café Los Sueños is top of my list, but they are strongly anti-decaf. I have a friend who can’t have caffeine for medical reasons, but loves coffee/espresso drinks so we can never go there when we hang.

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lpycb42 t1_iyr916f wrote

Just like me. That’s where I need to go.

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ContinentalOp_RG t1_iytb273 wrote

Glad you mentioned the baked goods. I've been wanting to check out both but Los Sueños is a lot closer,

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