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Caffeine meets terroir

Comet Coffee opens in the Arcade

by Sally Mitani

posted 4/6/2009

A few weeks before he opened, Jim Saborio hosted a coffee cupping (the caffeinated analog to a wine tasting) in Comet Coffee, his tiny new shop in Nickels Arcade. The half dozen or so people who attended were all hip to the language of coffee, which closely resembles the language of wine. There’s the fruity thing: “blackberry notes,” “I catch a hint of

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