For my close friends and family, it’s not a news that I super love coffee. In the past three months, I’ve had great times with these people with three different coffee/coffee shops.
In no particular order, I’m sharing these moments that made my coffee experience both joyful and memorable.
Starbucks Coffee: Breakfast Blend and Decaf House Blend
Mornings aren’t complete without coffee. For me this is the ultimate alarm clock. Not having coffee in the morning is like brushing my teeth without toothpaste, like a fish out of water. My Mom happens to be staying away from caffeine due to a heart condition so she enjoys the decaffeinated stuff. Batangueños like me, from the Southern Tagalog region popular for Kapeng Batangas or Kapeng Barako, a cup of coffee a day is next to breathing air.
I like Starbucks coffee, but their branches are most of the time full of people either smoking outside or customers surfing the net for almost half a day… taking most of the seats inside. That’s why brewing my own cup at home allows me to have a taste of their coffee.
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf: A Relaxing Office Break
Break times at CBTL is an oasis in the dessert, a refresh button in a frozen internet browser as I describe it. The branches in Piazza and Burgos Circles are like my pit stop when hustles and pressures of work start getting into my bones. The aroma of tea and coffee is just refreshing. A wide selection of All-day breakfast and pasta are also available to go with my hot cup (I seldom order cold drinks).
Another thing I like about their shop aside from the aroma in the air is space. The aisle spaces allow a certain privacy from the next customer. Even if the place is full, it’s not suffocating. But of course, 15 to max of 30 minutes is all I got so… back to work 
Bo’s Coffee Club: Spending a Night Out with Friends
Chilling out with some close friends in Bo’s Coffee Club, Bonifacio High Street is just best way to cap the work week after bottomless Margarita in Agave, a Mexican resto within the area. BCC boasts of freshly roasted coffee beans. Knowing that I have “freshness” (an ABC channel 5 word- ‘ka-freshness’) in my cup is a good thing. Means that I’m assured of the potency of my coffee. The aroma is just as fresh. Of course we all know that the sense of taste is connected to the sense of smell. Apart from that, spending time with my dear friends makes it more ‘masarap’ (translate: delicious). As I always tell them when we’re undecided where to eat or hang out, “just anywhere as long as we’re together (naks, hehe).” Spending the time in Bo’s just makes it more special.
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One cold rainy morning I, together with some bloggers, had a chance to meet Steve Benitez, CEO of Bo’s Coffee, in Bonifacio High Street (BHS). He was roasting some coffee beans from Guatemala not for a coffee drink but for a coffee art. You will not miss this (very expensive) coffee roaster by the counter as you enter BHS branch.
Yes, coffee art, he roasted in different shades of brown in what is to be an artist’s unique palette of brown monochromatic material instead of the usual paint, water color or pencil. His object of art is the bean itself. He just knows when the beans would start to crackle, when the beans would start to drop temperature in the roaster, and a lot more details. So much passion for coffee, yes? I agree.
What differentiates Bo’s Coffee Club is that a cup of coffee is assured of freshness. As Steve explained, roasted coffee beans are best grounded not right after roasting but about three days later and so the deliveries to a Bo’s Coffee Club are assured also of coffee aroma and taste right in its peak.
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