Attention West Coast: Mitchel Margulis, owner of New York-based Stone Street Coffee, is trying to step to us. Big time. “Espresso wasn’t invented in Seattle…We’re trying to take back coffee on the East Coast," he told New York magazine recently.

Invented? No. Perfected is more like it.

Margulis is distinguishing himself by favoring a darker roast and focusing on blends rather than single-origin espressos. By all accounts, however, NYCers remain smitten with West Coast roasters like Stumptown and Blue Bottle. Read the full story here.

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