Lonely Planet's Global Coffee Tour

A good and informative book on coffee and different places with great spectacular and specialty coffee. Good when on vacation and traveling, to know the different cafes where you can get a great coffee plus experience

Perfect gift for someone who loves travel and coffee. We purchased two as gifts!

Purchased as a gift and it was sealed. I think the recipient will be thrilled. Nice size book.

With this book you will know the coffee culture where ever you travel. Also a great book to read at the coffee shop to share your coffee fact and culture.

Informative, global and complete. Great pictures too!

"Lonely Planet's Global Coffee Tour" misses so many opportunities to be its subtitle: "A Taster's Guide to the World's Best Coffee Experiences." It's not.There are many examples. The introduction to Turkey mentions the practice of "kahve fali"--fortune telling with coffee grounds--but neither of the two coffeehouses listed for all of Turkey, both in Istanbul, offer "kahve fali" readings, although there are several such cafes in Istanbul.The section on Ethiopia refers to "Ethiopia's renowned coffee ceremony," yet fails to list the many small shops and large restaurants that offer formal and informal coffee ceremonies in Addis Ababa.None of the four cafes listed for Paris have any sense of history. Notably missing are the world's oldest coffeehouse, Le Procope, founded in 1686, and the storied cafes frequented by Hemingway, Sartre, Camus, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and other artists and writers too numerous to mention.The section on Cuba never ventures beyond two cafes in Havana, although the countryside is dotted with coffee farms and historic plantations. In the United States, the cities of New Orleans, with its coffeehouses serving chicory coffee and fluffy beignets covered in powdered sugar; and Miami, with Cuban-style cafecitos sold from ventanillas--window openings in cafes--available throughout Little Havana, are both entirely missing. Israel, with its burgeoning coffee scene on the beaches of Tel Aviv, is omitted. Typically for this book, the section on San Francisco omits the funky North Beach coffeehouses patronized by Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and Francis Ford Coppola in favor of third-wave roasters found in most larger cities today.There is no historical introduction--something Lonely Planet guides usually excel in--to provide a context to the guide. Regions and the countries in them are listed alphabetically, and that is the only organizing principle of the book. As a checklist of coffeehouses and coffee farms to visit in selected countries to get a superficial idea of the coffee scene there, it's barely adequate. Three stars for some informative side features.

This is a book written as superfluously as can be. To start with, only 2 types of coffee beans were mentioned, with an over-simplified redundant claim that robusta is far inferior to arabica. Not a single mention of how or why blending could facilitate a final production of great coffee. No coffee enthusiast would be enlightened with the scant knowledge and information given, such as the roasting and brewing methods outlined. The choice of the various cafe's is quite dubious, with emphasis on very commercial new-wave (?) coffee shops the authors believe are interesting, while ignoring the mention of many a good historic cafe's. Only 2 cafe's in Turin were present, but a greater number in New Zealand's Wellington? So many - perhaps too many - notable omissions: Cafe de Flore, Les Deux Magots (Paris), Cafe Tomaselli (Salzburg), Cafe Central, Cafe Landtmann (Vienna), Grand Cafe (Oslo), Wintergreen (Berlin), Kaffeebaum (Leipzig), Cafe Luitpold (Munich), Cafe A Brasilia (Lisbon), Els Quatre Gats (Barcelona), Caffe Greco (Rome), and the list goes on and on... In short, this book is a big disappointment for the title.

Awesome buy for any coffee enthusiast:)

lo avevo visto in Australia, e per il peso non lo avevo comprato!ci sono molti spunti se amate bere il caffè in bei locali, scritto in inglese!consigliato!

Tolles Buch mit vielen Ideen für guten Kaffee und tolles Café Ambiente

amazing book, must have for coffee drinkers

Bought as a gift for a coffee addict, she was very happy with it