I am no coffee connoisseur, but I know that I like a very full bodied cup and usually drink espresso when i have the urge for coffee (a couple times a week).

Well.......I ran out of "discs" for my single cup brewer and didn't feel like ordering more right now...and Walmart didn't have the brand I prefer (Carte Noir French roast)......so I fell back on an old favorite.

Cafe Bustelo.....in a drip machine, makes about the best cup of coffee I ever had.

yes indeedy

Just finishing a pot of some fine Guatemalan I roasted a couple of days ago. Now that's tasty!

I like fine Colombian

eight o'clock columbian ground in the basket with a topping of bustelo espresso

I made and am finishing a pot of Dunkin doughnuts coffee. great coffee

I had to dump half my mug.....I started twitching.

#6-

We actually really like their coffee too. Can't STAND the doughnuts though. DD is really new to us here in South Carolina. I don't think they'll develop the same following as our beloved Krispy Kreme.

Mmmmm, Krispy Kreme......

critter- good idea!

So much for Paul Blart being undercover...

Lluvia......it is a fun trick to dump a few tablespoons of Bustelo into the coffee maker at the office.

1) People comment on how good the coffee tastes.

2) People start talking real fast and moving around sporadically.

Cafe Bustelo seems to be a rather popular choice for espresso. Seems like every cigar shop I go into where there are Cubans working there, that's what they all chose for making the Cuban coffee/espresso. Always in the vaccuum packed bricks too, never the cans.

I prefer the African varieties instead of the South American ones. Get mine from Peets.com. Grind my own beans and use a French press.

#10-

My doughnut radar was going off!!

RE #11

Nah, what's even more fun, but only works in places where everyone uses styrofoam cups and you have lots of fumes (engine rooms, paint shops) to cover the smell up is you dry the inside of the coffee pot and then get a can of "Goof Off" and squirt a bit of it into the bottom of the pot. It'll look just like water so no one will notice. Then the coffee is brewed it looks just like coffee oil and the fist person who pours a cup will get about 1/3 of the way through filling the cup before the goof off disolves the bottom of the styrofoam cup.

"DAMN! That's one strong cup of coffee!"

#12.......most Cuban restaurants I have been to use either Bustelo or Pilan as well.

It is no surprise that I count Cuban coffee served by Cubans among my favorite coffee experiences.

andy- ahahah that would be fun in the classroom except I am usually the butt of the jokes and well,

ah wth!...it'd be funny as heck

yup time to buy bustelo...one for home and one for work

Cafe Bustelo? Never heard of it. That's despite having a damn Starbucks about ever five feet out here in the Pacific NW. Plus a couple second tier expensive coffee brands, and several smaller boutique brands. I live in a tiny town of about 1700 people out in the country, and just about 1.2 miles away, there is even a roaster down the hill from my home.

You pretty much have to try hard to buy bad coffee around here...as in, clearing the dust out of a bottom shelf and buying something in a can. I'm not sure, but I think they can throw you out of Seattle for buying coffee in a can.

*sigh* remember when coffee cost less per pound than cocaine? I may have a cappucino 1-2 times a year, but other than that, just plain ol' black coffee...hot and strong. If you can't walk across it, brew up a stronger batch, Alice. And please, if your coffee order is going to take 10-12 minutes to say, and another half hour to fill, can I please just go to the front of the line for a cup of black coffee?

end/rant.

1. Author: andytv

Bustello is my favorite too.

Cafe Bustelo also makes a great Espresso Instant coffee.