Altar Coffee: 30 Hours Inside a Bookshop Café That Gets Specialty Coffee Right
Twelve visits, 30 hours, one corner table. What happens when a bookshop café near Cascade takes espresso seriously — and why I kept coming back.
Author · A decade behind espresso machines and roasting drums across Yerevan
Artur Mkrtchyan – Coffee & Specialty Drinks Editor
Ten years behind the bar and roasting coffee in Yerevan since 2016
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Artur writes with a roaster's precision — he includes extraction times, grind settings, and whether a shop uses scales. His reviews read like tasting notes: specific, technical, and free of romance. Numbers over adjectives.
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