Coffee By Thirty

Each week, I’ve been devising a special of the week to coordinate with Silver Leaf’s weekly themes.

Wonders of the East weekend brought us Vietnamese Iced Coffee. Celtic Celebration week brought the Iced Nutty Irishman. Both went over very well.

This week’s theme is Coronation & Commencement, in which Silver Leaf gets a new queen. To commemorate the occasion, I’ve spent the afternoon in my coffee lab (which happens to look an awful lot like my kitchen.) After several hours of concocting, I have a new special of the week.

Presenting God Save the Queen, a white chocolate mocha with a hint of raspberry, blended with ice to smoothie-like consistency. It’s velvety, icy and royal, fit for monarchs on a hot summer’s day.

Mention this blog post during Silver Leaf’s Coronation & Commencement weekend and I’ll give you $0.50 off one.

Silver Leaf is getting really, really close. Equipment and supplies are streaming in and cluttering every room in the house. I have $500 worth of chocolate sauce in my bedroom. A bulk coffee grinder in the hall, and a Mazzer Mini, still in the box, in the middle of the kitchen. My new Vita-Mix Blender sits on the counter and has already made a dozen smoothies since the UPS man brought it to my door.

Coffee samples came a couple days ago, and I’m expecting pastry samples any time now. I don’t know what’s going to happen when the cups come.

Criminy, this is exciting.

Coffee by 30 is delighted to annouce it will play a role in the 2006 season of the Silver Leaf Renaissance Festival as Hummingbird Coffee House.

The Hummingbird will offer a variety of coffees, smoothies, pastries and other coffee house items for your culinary pleasure and caffeine fixes.

As a huge ren faire geek, I’m ecstatic to be combining coffee with faire. Plus, it give me the chance to order a ton of new equipment.

I’m updating the back end of the web site. Hopefully, everything will be transparent on your end, though I’m sorry in advance should anything blow up.

Update:Upgrade successful, and everything appears to be just peachy.

I’m battered, bruised, and sore in various places, but I survived the National Restaurant Association’s annual trade show. It took exactly two days to go through all the booths, and I certainly have the loot to show for it, not to mention the piles of food I ate, from gelato to deep-fried mac and cheese to specialty sodas.

Even the scavenger hunt ended with great success. I expected to miss out on one or two items on the list, instead I scored every single item.

Let’s review.

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