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March Madness and Haleem in Houston: The Finals!
Today marks the conclusion of the March Madness Haleem Bracket (first update and second update as well), in which Justin Burrow and I went around Houston trying to eat almost every bowl of haleem we could find and determine our pick of the bunch. It took almost a month to knock out, but we narrowed our bracket down to a [...]
04 Apr, 2012 -
March Madness Haleem Update, Part 2
Not too long, I published the first update to the March Madness Haleem Bracket that just Justin Burrow and have being working through together in order to raise awareness of our favorite Pakistani dish, haleem. Though March is since past, the March Madness NCAA tournament is over, and everyone is ready to move into April, we did finally [...]
03 Apr, 2012 -
March Madness Haleem Update, Part 1
Earlier in the month, I introduced the March Madness Haleem Bracket, for which my friend Justin Burrow and I would travel across the greater Houston area looking for our favorite rendition of the Pakistani meat, lentil, and wheat porridge, haleem, in town. Below is our first update, highlighting the first eight bowls of haleem we [...]
25 Mar, 2012 -
March Madness and Haleem in Houston
Every time March Madness comes around, NCAA-style tournament brackets running through wide ranges of non-basketball items become popular memes. The Houston Press, for example, announced the second annual version of its popular Burger Bracket recently, to much fanfare. In light of that, I thought it would be interesting to "borrow" that idea and apply it to one of [...]
08 Mar, 2012 -
Cocktail Dinner at Plonk Beer & Wine Bistro, January 29, 2012
Although it's not quite 2012 yet, I think it's time to finally make use of my little section on this page and announce a cocktail pairing dinner for the new year: to be held the evening of Sunday, January 29th. This past summer, I got the chance to incorporate cocktails with modern Indian cuisine at Pondicheri Cafe and rustic [...]
21 Dec, 2011 -
Organic Acids Identification Class- Oct. 15th and 16th
Our next class will be focusing on the organic acids found in coffee. This is a really informative class and wanted to stress to all culinary professionals and home baristas in Houston that this won't come around very often, and I highly encourage taking this class if you don't take any of the others. [...]
26 Sep, 2011 -
The Venturing Barista 2
It has been two weeks. And what a two weeks it has been. I competed in the UBC at the Florida Food Expo against Sean Marshall and Greg Suekoff. Congrats to Greg for winning best of brew, cocktail and overall. Congrats to Sean for taking Frappe. I won the Latte art portion (I got lucky). [...]
23 Sep, 2011 -
The Venturing Barista.
So as you all may know I have been recently offered the job opportunity of a lifetime. I will be leaving Greenway Coffee for a short time to go out into the world and spread our passion and knowledge to some wonderful people in Orlando Florida. While off on this journey there will be many [...]
02 Sep, 2011 -
online coffee sales beginning
It's time to start selling our coffees online! We will get these shipped out to you within 4 days of order, and if we have enough coffee in stock at Greenway it will be sooner than that. Thanks for everyone's support and please be patient as we work out the kinks =]. Ecky generally [...]
08 Aug, 2011 -
Blacksmith rising.....
...time to come out of the dungeon.
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04 Aug, 2011 -
Baratza Esatto and Coava Coffee KONE 2.0
Esatto and KONE 2.0 We were lucky to receive the Baratza Esatto Prototype a couple of months ago and decided it was about time to write our thoughts on it, as well as the Coava Coffee KONE 2.0, graciously sent to us by the good guys at Coava. Tons of stuff has been written about [...]
25 Jul, 2011 -
Quick Recap of 2011 up to July
I guess this was a much needed recap of what Greenway has become until now (this is solely David's views on this post btw). We sort of came into our own this year, 2011. What started out as a great idea 3 years ago has turned into the planting of seeds for the future. Our [...]
14 Jul, 2011 -
Palate Training Exercises
Hi guys! I know it has been a while since I have blogged, and we will jump back in to the swing of things in no time. We (ie:Fabio) have been structuring the website to be a fun place to read about coffee culture, the Houston food scene, and more. I would like to [...]
06 Jun, 2011
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