Score one for the little guy!
Fellow blogger and foodie Brekkie Fan sent me a note that the Starbucks at Newport Ave. and Main St. in Tustin is going to become the second outpost of Kean Coffee.
Kean -- as all caffeine junkies already know -- is Martin Diedrich's indie coffee house; The one he built from scratch in Newport Beach after he sold his much-beloved local gem Diedrich's Coffee to the Starbucks empire.
Well now that more and more Buckies stores are folding, (Hmm, I wonder why fewe
We always like to hear that a new independent, non-chain coffee house is going to open--especially when it's an award-winning, community-minded, eco-friendly one.So the unveiling of a second location of award-winning Kéan Coffee is good news indeed. Does that make it a chain? I think not, although owner Martin Diedrich was the founder of Diedrich's coffee. In fact, the "new" site in Tustin was previously a Starbucks, and, before that, a Diedrich's. What goes around comes around, as they say.Upd
When I visited Kéan Coffee's new Tustin location last Sunday, it had only been open six days and already the lines were out the door. While that may have been due in part to staff still getting up to speed, it was definitely pulling in the punters. For good reason, it seems.The drinks menu is lengthy, with everything from the usual suspects (lattes, iced drinks, juices) to more unusual varieties, including Turkish caffè latte with cardamom, café au lait and açai fruit smoothies.I enjoye
We in the Biz call those little photos and story captions at the top of the OC Weekly home page "rotating teasers" because Flash technology allows promotions for several stories on our site to occupy the same space by fading in and out. It's all thanks to a patented process called "magic."
Anyway, what I believe just happened is I was staring at one teaser, blinked, and then my eyes picked up the next at the exact same spot for the next teaser that had rotated in while my eyes wer
