Spent the past week in Calgary on a training course – and while I didn’t spend much time outside of the classroom or my hotel suite, I did find the Caffè Artigiano.  A forum member suggested this cafe as it was close by the hotel I was staying at, and I was further motivated as this cafe serves up 49th Parallel coffee that I have been wanting to try for a while.

I found the place during a 1 hour lunch break, and had large Americano with an extra shot, along with a bowl of very tasty Chicken Curry soup.  I also order a half pound of their “Private Reserve” espresso, and had them grind it up for a press (I brought my Aeropress with me, along with some Ethiopian Harrar from Transcend). Very nice place inside – although I didn’t have my soup and coffee there – had to hurry back to class.

The Americano was fabulous – had been 2 days since I last had one.  And that evening, I made up a mug of coffee with the Aeropress, and I was very pleased!  From the coffee perspective, the Aeropress and the Caffè Artigiano made my trip – the class had coffee provided, but it was lukewarm at best, refilled my mug with it on Monday, and didn’t touch it for the rest of the week.  I actually walked back to the hotel during lunch on a couple occassions, and made up a fresh mug in my suite!

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