Posts Tagged ‘coffee’
Good thing he didn’t ask for the Grey Poupon
There’s a lux coffee shop in town called Bourbon Coffee. It has wireless internet and good music and pricey food and beverages. It is classier than Starbucks but somehow leaves me feeling as sad. But it’s a good idea, of course: in a country now so famous for its coffee, not to have a coffee [...]
Short is the new tall
Coffee, that is. That’s right, people. There’s a Starbucks-like coffee shop in Kigali. Only here, a tall is a medium. Even for those of us schooled in the vocabulary of ventis, it’s less confusing than if it were in Kinyarwanda, I suppose. English is the language of money…
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