Nothing’s better than brewing your own coffee at home with fresh roasted coffee beans… but sometimes you want to get out of the house, or you’re on the road, or maybe you’re meeting up with a friend and need to find a good, quality coffee house to visit.
Finding one can be difficult, though. Some communities have many… others, such as in Orlando, FL where I live, have very few (and the ones we’ve had have, for the most part, gone out of business!).
I recently came across the Delocator.net Web site, which helps you do just that. Simply pull up the Web site, enter in your zip code and choose ‘coffee’ from the drop-down menu (the site started out focusing solely on coffee but now also offers search for books, movies, music and organic food).
Not only is it important to support small businesses found in the Delocator, but you may also find that a lot of these coffee houses use fresher beans and are more dedicated to maintaining high quality, giving you a better tasting coffee or espresso-based drink (they almost have to be, to compete with the big guys).
If you’ve used this site with success, let me know in the comments and please share this post with a friend who enjoys good coffee.
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So true…as a former starbucks employee gone independent, lemme just say I can stomach starbucks anymore…knowing what I know now regarding both quality And business practices.
I found the Delocator site just a couple of months ago. I’ve been living in Florida since last summer and have had a hard time finding good coffee shops. They pointed me to dozens in my area that I didn’t know about. A few of them were out of business, but it did help me discover some gems.